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Woodstock Literary Festival boasts starry line-up
www.witneygazette.co.uk
[Witney Gazette] - Oxford University Professor of Government Vernon Bogdanor will chair a discussion on who runs Britain with former Foreign Secretary and ex-Witney MP Douglas Hurd. One of the most eagerly awaited talks will see Alistair Darling talking to Simon Kelner
Google News: Libya success does NOT mean it will work again
[First Post] - Rather than worrying about 'punching above our weight', to use Douglas Hurd's hapless phrase, both London and Paris will surely have to raise their game – and to acquire aircraft carriers and amphibious forces that really work, for example.
Mark Stuart: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys as MPs
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
[Yorkshire Post] - There's an old saying that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Perhaps that should read, if you pay peanuts, you get MPs. Mark Stuart is a political researcher from York who has written the biographies of Douglas Hurd and John Smith.
Google News: Celebrity Big Brother: Meet The Inmates
[Sabotage Times] - Saw Katona's hair described last night as "a celebrity Douglas Hurd". Sounds about right. They should fill the house up with even more Z listed celebs and don't bother to film it it, just leave them there it will give us all a break.
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