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My problem with Chelsea
5:22pm Wednesday 21st May 2008
Tonight's Champions League final showdown between Manchester United and Chelsea is the subject of this week's Talking Point.
Anthony Matthews reveals why he will be in the red corner tonight and why Avram Grant should walk away if the Blues prevail.
Talking Point is a weekly column written by a member of the Watford Observer sports team.
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Two benefit fraudsters have been told to pay back more than £6,000 in illegally claimed housing and council tax benefits.
The right course of action
Pub chat often involves mulling over hypothetical situations and how you would react if ever they were to arise in reality.
Stamp duty is unstuck
Chipping Barnet MP THERESA VILLIERS says the Government should stop talking about a stamp duty holiday and scrap it altogether for first time buyers.
Nominate the best in local tradition
Landlords have been pulling pints in public houses for hundreds of years but nowadays the corner pub is often overlooked. Charlotte Gray looks at some Barnet gems ahead of London’s Love Your Local awards next month.
One or two surprises
Life's full of surprises. One of my first duties as a Times reporter in the London Blitz early in the 1940s was to get called out to Elm Park Gardens, Hendon, following an air raid ... and tipping an incendiary bomb from a rafter into a bucket of water held by my editor, Barrett Newbery.
Wayne Rooney in training for tonight's final. Picture: ACTION IMAGES
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