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Miles Kington Remembered: 'This witness seems to be off his trolly, m'Lud'

28 July 2008 12:00 AM

You can always get NHS things if you want to. They're so desperate for cash they're flogging stuff off. That's why they're so short of beds. They keep selling them

Miles Kington Remembered: The Lord thy God is a little liable to fly off the handle

25 July 2008 12:00 AM

15 July 2003

Miles Kington Remembered: How to become a favourite uncle to precocious children

23 July 2008 12:00 AM

1 August 2002

Miles Kington Remembered: Is there anything left to eat that doesn't contain nuts?

22 July 2008 12:00 AM

If it had said, 'Warning: this packet of fine sea salt may contain tiny fragments of seaweed,' I would have understood. But bits of nut in my salt?

Miles Kington Remembered: You can't libel the dead – unless they come back to life

21 July 2008 12:00 AM

He took the view that he was bound to win, and even if he didn't get substantial damages, he would make history by being the first person to sue an obituary for libel

Miles Kington Remembered: Why I could never fall in love with Kate Moss

18 July 2008 12:00 AM

2 April 2004

Miles Kington Remembered: The strange case of the disappearing crime tsar</I>

16 July 2008 12:00 AM

12 June 2001

Miles Kington Remembered: Enveloped between my respectable rivals

15 July 2008 12:00 AM

There were plenty of recognisable faces... people who would like to stand asanti-sleaze candidates... Ernest Saunders, Asil Nadir and Darius Guppy

Miles Kington: Believe me, jury service is nothing like 'Twelve Angry Men'

14 July 2008 12:00 AM

I never did get to harangue 11 men and women because they were about to sendan innocent man to the gallows

Miles Kington Remembered: A relaxing weekend of huntin', shootin', bigamy and suicide

11 July 2008 12:00 AM

26 October 2000

Miles Kington Remembered: Why the care of small animals can be a legal minefield

10 July 2008 12:00 AM

24 October 1996

Miles Kington: My father's tireless war against waste... and my mother

08 July 2008 12:00 AM

4 September 2001

Miles Kington: How I learnt to write poetry on a computer called Otto

07 July 2008 12:00 AM

The purpose of my visit, apart from giving my body the chance to recover from a hangover, was to find out how English poetry could possibly be Europeanised

Miles Kington: Why no one writes poems about spiders, and other mysteries

04 July 2008 12:00 AM

8 July 2005

Miles Kington: In search of that dream team of crime writers</I>

03 July 2008 12:00 AM

14 September 2005
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