Month: September 2025
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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19FYYhkFva/ By HILARY GAVIN I DON’T know about you but I love great telly, with brilliant acting to boot, so I was truly delighted to find myself enthralled by the ITV series The Hack at the weekend. Of course, I rate both Scotsmen David Tennant and Robert Carlyle among my favourite actors of all time…
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By HILARY GAVIN I WAS twelve years-old in 1974 when I first watched Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Fay Dunaway starring in the Seventies blockbuster movie The Towering Inferno at a time when high-rise buildings began dominating our urban skylines in big cities across the Western world. Of course, my interest at that age was…
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By HILARY GAVIN I’M UPDATING my WordPress blog after attending last night’s Hunston Parish Council meeting when councillors were updated on the proposals to either revamp or rebuild our village hall. As you can see from my Facebook and LinkedIn social media messsages below, I didn’t film yesterday’s meeting: HI FB friends. Lovely evening. I…
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By HILARY GAVIN By HILARY GAVIN I AM writing this WordPress blog in the full knowledge that I might expect a visit from my local PCSO officer Paul Slater after both he, and a PC, were called to OUR village parish council offices last week on Monday (September 15th, 2025). If you don’t know why…
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By HILARY GAVIN I’M SORRY to say but I doubt that many of our youngsters living in our divisive po-faced nation today are aware that the British were once renowed worldwide for their legendary sense of humour. In fact, I’m certain that some people who stumble upon this blog post of mine nowadays will take…
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By HILARY GAVIN EVENING ALL, unfortunately I couldn’t film tonight’s Hunston Parish Council because there weren’t enough councillors in attendance to form a quorum so the meeting couldn’t go ahead. The Chair Wendy Gray couldn’t make the meeting along with Cllr Sue Lucas, Cllr Martin Simms and Cllr Becky Davis.WSCC Cllr Sarah Sharp had arrived…
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By HILARY GAVIN TO BE honest, folks, I didn’t watch Tommy Robinson’s flag-touting rally in London on telly yesterday – but I had to chuckle to myself when I heard the multi-billionarie X owner Elon Musk had dialled the Far Right leader by video link to address protesters by saying: “Violence is coming … you…
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By HILARY GAVIN MENTION the name John Snow in conversation today in our celebrity-riven society and I suspect most people of my generation, at least, would jump to the conclusion that you are talking about the Channel 4 journalist Jon Snow. Of course our younger generation might think you are referring to the fictional character…
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By HILARY GAVIN NEXT MONDAY will mark the third anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death at Balmoral Castle in Scotland on September 8th, 2022, and I suspect you, like me, and millions of people worldwide, can remember exactly where you were and what you were doing on the day the news broke on telly, on…