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  • Joe Bloggs off the corner-shop and everybody else tweets him and he replies to everybody.

    QPR's sacking of Neil Warnock had been increasingly on the cards 2012

  • The plot runs something like this: Chinese extraterrestrials negotiate with an Asian corner-shop undercover agent and are pursued by a BMX gang past Booze Express on Corporation Street on to the brutalist rooftop edifice of Preston bus station.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • Fast forward to 2011: hundreds of corner-shop newsagents have closed and supermarkets have muscled into control of sharply reducing retail magazine sales.

    Colin Morrison: Is This the World's Most Successful Magazine? Colin Morrison 2011

  • I recall arising early on the morning of September 12th 2001 and heading over to the closest corner-shop in search for the latest news out of New York.

    Dovid Efune: The Fading Blessing of September 11 Dovid Efune 2011

  • Fast forward to 2011: hundreds of corner-shop newsagents have closed and supermarkets have muscled into control of sharply reducing retail magazine sales.

    Colin Morrison: Is This the World's Most Successful Magazine? Colin Morrison 2011

  • Rather than settling for the £12 corner-shop model like everyone else, his father thoughtfully responded with a £450 BB version of an Israeli Tavor bullpup assault rifle with red-spot laser sights?

    We're all hooked on fishing now 2010

  • Since credit crunched there has, not surprisingly, been a more concerted move toward debit cards, particularly for corner-shop transactions.

    Why plastic is now the convenient king 2010

  • Labour look more disorganised and chaotic than ever, can't see how anyone would trust them with governance of a corner-shop, let alone a country.

    YouGov Poll - SNP take massive poll lead Jeff 2009

  • Obviously the EU, with its perchance for fining corner-shop greengrocers who sensibly refuse to use measurements its customers find incomprehensible thousands of pounds for each infringement, is a tempting and irresistible target for his humour.

    Incompetence by Rob Grant Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Obviously the EU, with its perchance for fining corner-shop greengrocers who sensibly refuse to use measurements its customers find incomprehensible thousands of pounds for each infringement, is a tempting and irresistible target for his humour.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Adam Whitehead 2009

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