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A Christmas ghost story

‘‘OKAAAAAY! It’s one minute to midnight, and all you nightbirds out there on the highways and byways are tuned into Hot-Flame FM. Demonic drones dirting-up your radio dial. Read

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1. Changeling, the latest film directed by Clint Eastwood, is described on posters as ‘a thriller of scale and substance’. Read

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1 I’VE just paid my TV licence over the internet, where the website informed me that I could get a discount if I was blind. Read

The real evil is that we sit back and do nothing

IT’S only four letters long, but it’s a big word – one of the biggest. Read

Jackson: Alternative F-words!

APPARENTLY a BBC bigwig OK’d the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand radio harassment of Andrew Sachs because they used the f-word, and the f-word is funny. Read

Jackson: Sex and The City Star's strip is hardly shocking

wSEX And The City siren, Kim Cattrall, is campaigning to stop a classic work by Titian being sold abroad. Read

Jackson: Strictly Come Dancing Star Alesha Dixon and chef Gordon Ramsay must learn the fame game

AS A journalist, I’ve tackled many a thorny issue. Read

Jackson: Tittle tattle drowning out cries of Britain’s underclass

LAST week GMTV hired a new presenter. Read

Forget I'm A Celebrity Get Me Outta Here - throw the celebs into the real jungle... Westminster

IT HARDLY seems like any time has passed since we all waved a relieved farewell to those nobodies and numbskulls from Big Brother. Read

My problems with the German Market in Birmingham city centre

GREAT to see the German Market back in Birmingham city centre; it almost makes all the winter chills, sleet and rain bearable. Read

Jackson: Name game

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Johnny Marr from The Smiths could start the ball rolling

JOHNNY Marr, the legendary indy guitarist from The Smiths, is to be made a visiting professor of music at Salford University. Read

What are the policies of Barik Obama?

Barack Obama has proven to be a one man agent of radical reform – a French Revolution squeezed inside a sober suit and tie. Read

And the most important issue of the day is...

I’M sure you’ll be relieved to discover that in today’s column I won’t be snarling about the juvenile japery of Jonathan Ross. Read

Jackson: Living the high life with the David Cameron crew

LET it never be said that I don’t put in a lot of hard graft for all you readers. Read

Jackson: Only Robert Preston can save us!

MY MUM knows a lot of stuff about cooking, gossiping and moaning about the way her kids look after her grandchildren. Read

Jackson: University education - the facts!

There’s lots to be learned from a uni education - but little of it in the classroom Read

Jackson: The world will run out of websites

IT had to happen. The world will soon run out of websites. Read

Jackson: Be terrified - David Cameron has a plan!

OKAY, we can all be terrified now – David Cameron has a plan. Read

The black-hole that is brand Beckham

And the big news this week was that a black hole appeared on planet earth - and swallowed us all. Read

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