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  • Helena Kennedy: It is time we stopped putting so many mothers behind bars
    Sunday, 13 May 2007

    No one should really be surprised at the escalation in figures. If you double the number of women in prison over a 10-year period, then, given the age of most female offenders, it is not surprising that there will be a baby boom in women's prisons. H...

  • Elizabeth Heathcote: My strappy little numbers? Sandals
    Sunday, 13 May 2007

    My joy at this annual event is increasingly tempered by the unpleasant baggage that comes with it. The first glimpse of those white legs, unpainted toes and calloused feet, veterans of another year's trudge down the long march of life - all of these ...

  • Camping holidays: Loitering within tent
    Saturday, 12 May 2007

    So when the editor of this magazine asks if I might go camping for this week's Outdoors issue I say: "I think I'll pass, thanks all the same." When he asks for a second time, I repeat: "I think I'll pass, thanks all the same." When he asks yet again,...

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