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Oi Story 2 – Proper interviews Nigel Lawson of Oi Polloi

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By Mark W. Smith Verified
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The first shops weren’t really shops at all. They were market stalls, merchants’ tables and dusty corners where somebody had something somebody else wanted. They were just spots where people pitched up and traded what they had. By around the second century BC though, something more familiar began to emerge. In places like Pompeii, permanent street-facing tabernae lined the roads, their shutters flung open from dawn until dusk, selling everything from bread and wine to leather sandals and lamp oil.
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Clarks Originals Lightens the load with reissue of Wallabee Lite

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By Mark W. Smith Verified
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A few months ago I did something daft. I sold a vintage pair of Wallabee Lites that I’d spent years hunting down, and even longer keeping them safely stored, unworn. What a pointless exercise. No point in owning something that is to be worn, then not wearing them. That’s what led to me selling them. And it was daft. At the time it felt sensible enough. They weren’t getting much wear, someone else would appreciate them, all that grown-up logic.
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Futsol makes moves with Jumpers for Goalposts

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By Mark W. Smith Verified
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Football has never been more popular, but as the World Cup has shown, the gap between the haves and have nots has never been wider. At one end you’ve got people debating million-pound transfers, for pampered players who play on pristine pitches, surrounded by corporate branding galore. Then in the engine room of the game, where its true spirit lives. This takes place in parks, cages, playgrounds, patches of grass and community centres.
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