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New comic Ted Shiress realises it can't all be ranting
09/09/2011 … A couple of Sundays ago I was rather hungover and it occurred to me this would be a perfect opportunity to write that bitter routine I'd been planning about how…
Chris Hallam recalls the response to the Al Qaeda attacks
06/09/2011 … The attacks of September 11, ten years ago, were a massive human tragedy and perhaps the biggest news event of any of our lives.
Mary Bourke on what she learned on Edinburgh's Free Fringe
05/09/2011 … When you announce to your peers that you're doing the Free Fringe you'll be greeted with the same stunned reaction as you would if you announced that you've been…
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