November 2021
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Royal Mail: rewarding shareholders, failing customers
What a surprise. Royal Mail is handing £400 million to shareholders after a rise in postal…
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HS2: broken Tory promises
What a surprise. After countless promises to build a high speed rail line to Yorkshire, Boris…
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Blue sky November
It was a typically gloomy November day. We hadn’t seen the sun for days. But just…
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COP26: the end of King Coal?
It was a symbol of Welsh industrial might: a locomotive hauling a coal train that seemed…
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Cycling The Way of the Roses with Peak Tours
Not another hill! I was struggling. It had been a very hilly day, and I was…
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The Last Mountain: the story of Tom Ballard and Alison Hargreaves
It was hard to hold back the tears. Back in 1995, Alison Hargreaves, a mother of…
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iOS15: Left Behind
My heart was racing. I’d just seen a message on my Apple Watch: my iPad was…
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The day I met Michael Heseltine
It was a tumultuous time in British politics. Prime minister John Major had just resigned as…
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Climate crisis: the train must take the strain
What an irony. Thousands travelling to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow were stranded in London…