Kevin Booth's View from the Editor's Chair
Those online 'Smart Alecs' were strangely silent for once
THE reaction, in some quarters, was predictable. Entirely predictable. "You'll be telling us next that the Pope is Catholic or that Hitler was a Nazi", sniped some of the ever-so-clever commentators
Lessons learned from tragedy can be catalyst for change
‘LIKE a harbinger of doom, I wrote last week of my concerns about our so-called café culture. The 24-hour licensing laws which should have seen our town and city centres embrace a
5am and all is not well in the town centre
THE Mail’s headlines this week have been dominated by the events of the early hours of Sunday morning in Burton. For a while, it seemed touch and go whether 24-year-old Dusan Balint would
Publish and be damned but justice finally takes its course
I’M THE first to admit we don’t always get things right. Producing a daily newspaper is a race against the clock, a constant battle with deadlines. Mistakes happen and where they do, our
Free heroin idea is not as daft as it sounds . . .
THEIR graves lie not more than a few paces apart, separated only by the immaculately manicured footpath arcing through the cemetery. She bought her plot soon after we laid him to rest. As in life, she
Human rights of abusers are put before public interest
SIGN me up for the next series of Grumpy Old Men. Or call me Meldrew maybe, Victor Meldrew. I don’t seem able to get past Page 7 of my daily newspaper without my blood pressure soaring. Most of
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MorePoppy Appeal is a record-breaker for Swadlincote
SWADLINCOTE'S Royal British Legion (RBL) has revealed that donations to the 2011 Poppy Appeal were more than 100 per cent up on last year. Stuart Allen, county vice-chairman of the Derbyshire RBL and
Claim that railway station will shame Olympic flame
THERE are fears that planned improvements to Burton Railway Station could clash with the Olympic Torch relay, when the town needs to 'look at its best'. This summer, Staffordshire County Council is
