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Ed’s letter…

AS AUTUMN draws on, we pass another milestone. In the latest report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, TheOldie records a sales figure of 40,402. The steadily rising sale is a boost not only for us but for all those who insist that in spite of all the wonderful technological change there is still a growing demand for the printed word.

Further proof came with the gratifying response to our readership survey. The ten lucky prizewinners of original cartoons are: Guy Jillings, R B Aktuna, J M Dalton, Olivia Cotton, B T Hewitt, Laurie McTaggart, James Allen, Maureen Dalton, A J G Howse and J Warner.

RICHARD INGRAMS

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12 PEARLS OF WISDOM Jilly Cooper speaks volumes to Melanie McFadyean

THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY Jane Hampton remembers lost Olympic sports 34

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46 STILL WITH US Sarah Shannon talks to Derek Jameson

BRIDGING THE PERSIAN GULF Gill Swain is charmed by people and poetry in Iran 56

17 UP WENT THE SWIVEL LIDS! Quentin Letts remembers restaurant trolleys trundling around the dining rooms of England

20 WHO AM I? John McEntee finds his charming, eccentric mother has been usurped

28 FLEET STREET IT WASN’T Paul Ferris’s job on Woman’s Own in the Fifties

That’s enough Che: page 44

38 UNNATURAL CAUSES Why no coroner’s inquest into the death of David Kelly? asks Miles Goslett

45 SWEENEY IN TOTTENHAM A chilling account of the riot’s aftermath

A chilling account of the riot’s aftermath

Come with us to experience A Taste of Sicily

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