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Euro Weekly News | Nora Johnson

MY name is Nora, and I am a surveyoholic. Yes, I love surveys. Can’t get enough of  ’em. Two about women turned up just recently. A bit like Government U-turns you could say: wait long enough and two arrive at the same time. Nuff said. Anyway, both surveys were, as…
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IT IS that time of year again! You know, when you’re clobbered on all sides – on TV, in the press and on billboards – by international beauty companies’ airbrushed ads chivying you to  get “beach ready” for  the holidays. The same airbrushed ads, you’ll recall, all-too-soon chivying you to…
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CRITICS have been in overdrive rubbishing Dan Brown’s latest thriller, Inferno. "A plot rammed to bursting point with guide-book factoids." (Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.)  "As a stylist Brown gets better and better: where once he was abysmal he is now just very poor. This is his worst book, and for…
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THE UK Department for Communities and Local Government recently revealed a list of perks enjoyed by its civil servants costing taxpayers about £1million (€1.18 million) per annum. Special bonuses up to £1,000 (€1,180) each are reportedly being paid for basic skills such as good typing, first aid, acting as fire…
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WITH yet another celebrity arrest – the 73 year-old comedian, Jimmy Tarbuck - over an alleged assault dating back to the 1970s, you have to ask yourself when is this celebrity-targeting going to end? Whilst I don’t condone what Tarbuck or his fellow celebrities are accused of, I do have…
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THE odd reader may recall I’ve written about TripAdvisor before.  Maybe some normal ones too. And that just mentioning it gets my blood pressure up. Now, I’ve warned you: don't get me started! Oh, OK then ... If you fancy dining in London, you’ll be regaled with a choice of…
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ANOTHER week. Another poll. You’ve doubtless seen press headlines like this: “Coalition faces local election disaster with UKIP now fourth UK party.”  Another distortion of the UK voting system. And another set of conclusions which mean little in reality.  Well, if ahead of this week’s local elections, voters actually experienced…
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DESPITE all the claims made by Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair of Britain becoming a classless society, along come researchers informing us that the old model of an upper, middle and working class has ‘fragmented’. Apparently there are seven classes ranging from the ‘elite’ to the ‘precariat’. According to the…
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WARNING: the following contains strong language right from the start! What the f … Well, this is a family newspaper, after all, so I suppose I’d better tone it down a bit. What is happening is that I am angry.  So angry I need, once again, to lie down in…
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I WAS on the phone last night to Steven Spielberg. We were discussing my latest crime thriller, Retribution, which he’s optioned to direct and scheduled for a Hollywood red carpet première in spring 2014.  We talked about all the usual stuff.  Investors and rights, casting and locations. I said my…
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ACCORDING to a parenting website, modern childhood “ends at the age of 12”.  Netmums canvassed its members and received over a thousand responses blaming “marketing, media and peer pressure”. With the appalling spectacle of American over-made up, under-dressed children of four years old participating in "beauty pageants.” I'm surprised the…
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LAST week an email popped into my website inbox from someone called ‘Anita’. Nothing strange in that, I often get comments from readers of my novels as well as of this column. This email, though, was a bit different. It was accompanied by a photo of an extremely pretty, smiling…
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THE recent success in Eastleigh for anti-immigration party UKIP certainly caused a furore in Westminster for all three major parties. UK Work and Pensions Minister, Iain Duncan Smith, was forced to admit Britain faced a "crisis" of increased immigration from Rumania and Bulgaria once existing restrictions are lifted next January:…
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COUNTRIES hardest hit by Europe’s never ending financial crisis are also perceived to be among the most corrupt in Western Europe. Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2012 shows Greece, Italy and Spain with the lowest public sector scoresof all 27 EU countries. Now, we’ve all heard anecdotes about corruption in Greece…
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NEWS that after four decades, doyenne of the kitchen Delia Smith is turning her back on TV cookery shows – fed up with having to ‘entertain’ rather than teach people to cook – to launch her own cookery school online came as no surprise. Telly’s now crammed with 'edgy' so-called…
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