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We went on a 'pothole safari' around the Black Country - I lost count how many I saw on one street

We went on a 'pothole safari' around the Black Country - I lost count how many I saw on one street

Spring is in the air. The sky is blue, the blazing sun is licking the glistening paintwork of the brown Kia. What glorious weather for a drive out....

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Mark Andrews

Peter Rhodes on gout, lumbago and a trip to the foot clinic

Peter Rhodes on gout, lumbago and a trip to the foot clinic

Great expressions of our time. “The world has changed,” laments Chancellor Rachel Reeves, trying to explain how, having promised us the New...

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Peter Rhodes

Mark Andrews: Raging against the machines and Rachel Reeves the flower-power queen

Mark Andrews: Raging against the machines and Rachel Reeves the flower-power queen

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.comand on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 While using a...

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Mark Andrews

Growth and change for Albrighton and beyond - but you can't please everyone

Growth and change for Albrighton and beyond - but you can't please everyone

Driving around Albrighton, I was struck by the number of disused filling stations. Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.comand on Freeview 262 or...

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Toby Neal

Peter Rhodes on secrets, pot holes and a warning of slavery in Whitehall

Peter Rhodes on secrets, pot holes and a warning of slavery in Whitehall

By coincidence, news reports of English villages being overwhelmed by tourists appear in the same week as the Government demands that local...

28.03.2025 1

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Peter Rhodes

Senedd Member Jane Dodds explains why she allowed the Welsh budget to pass

Senedd Member Jane Dodds explains why she allowed the Welsh budget to pass

Earlier this month, the Senedd passed the Welsh Budget Whilst the final Budget was a vast improvement on the initial proposed Budget, it was still...

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Karen Compton

Peter Rhodes on “Wild West” tourism, how kids regard TV and the pure heroism of Blue Peter

Peter Rhodes on “Wild West” tourism, how kids regard TV and the pure heroism of Blue Peter

So farewell, Blue Peter. Sort of. The world's longest-running kids' programme, will no longer be screened live, as it has usually been since 1958,...

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Peter Rhodes