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• Councils must help music – so music can help their communities flourish (Charlie Clinton & Josh Matthews)
• Welcome to the Brexit argument, Prime Minister! (Dr Anthony Harris)
• Can we afford the Triple Lock? Not as a low tax party (Joe Wright)
• Labour’s new vape tax is disastrous policymaking (Rees Southern)
• Welcome to my day: 5 October 2026 – it’s beginning to feel a lot like AGM season… (Mark Valladares)

• A portrait of the last days of independent Penge
• How John Prescott blocked the full redevelopment of Ellesmere canal basin
• The Joy of Six 1587
• LGS establishes new link with US National Winston Churchill Museum in Fulton Missouri
• Labour need to step up on abolition of leaseholds
• Colin Milburn at Lord's in 1968: The first test innings I remember
• Show Racism the Red Card
• "Chop chop ya bam" Grandson of Big Mags Haney jailed over 'sadistic' machete attack
• Ian Anderson on the old hippies who used punk to get on in music

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