Is Cottingham part of Kingston upon Hull?  I dare say you don’t care!  Me neither!  I suspect most people don’t care.  It’s unlikely you’ve heard of Cottingham and maybe you’ve never heard of Hull!  The people who do care live in Cottingham.  I’ve only been there once, over 20 years ago, when I took part

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I was born and brought up in a modestly affluent part of Sheffield and then moved away for 17 years.  I returned in 1989, to live in Pitsmoor, a place regarded as one of the most disadvantaged inner city areas.   Pitsmoor’s shopping centre is called Ellesmere Green and it is at the top of

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One evening in 1996, two colleagues took me to Pizza Hut at Meadowhall Business Park.  I was physically shaking – not shivering but visibly shaking.  My hands were moving involuntarily.  I was not ill, this was acute stress.  Soon after, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and I have been on medication ever since.

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Stories rarely remain unchanged, the context in which they’re told matters just as much as the context referred to by the story.  I wrote this sequence of 21 stories about 15 months ago.  You may have read some or all of them in their earlier form.  Reading it now, we perhaps see something different, especially

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Stories rarely remain unchanged, the context in which they’re told matters just as much as the context referred to by the story.  I wrote this sequence of 21 stories about 15 months ago.  You may have read some or all of them in their earlier form.  Reading it now, we perhaps see something different, especially

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Stories rarely remain unchanged, the context in which they’re told matters just as much as the context referred to by the story.  I wrote this sequence of 21 stories about 15 months ago.  You may have read some or all of them in their earlier form.  Reading it now, we perhaps see something different, especially

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