Landowners have had a huge influence on Scotl&. The castles, mansions, roads, churches & harbours they have built & the woodlands they created still survive in many parts of the country. In a bygone age, clan chiefs enjoyed unswerving loyalty from their followers & lairds had their own courts with the power to hang those who broke the law on their l&. Today, the landowner's power is diminished & the chieftain's link with his people is lost, but many old families continue to cling to vast estate. The traditional lairds have been joined in the ownership of Scotland by foreign businessmen & aristocrats, & by rock stars, pension funds & environment groups. 80 per cent of Scotland is still governed by lairds of one kind or another, whose motives are often less than altruistic. In WHO OWNS SCOTLAND NOW?, Auslan Cramb raises important questions. Should areas containing internationally important species & habitats be sold to the highest bidder? Should crofting estates be priced beyond the means of the local community? Should vast areas of be treated as occasional homes & managed, often to the detriment of the environment, for deerstalking, grouse-shooting & salmon fishing? ...

Chris Henderson formed the Chelsea Headhunters as well as the band Combat 84, the antithesis of middle-class England with its raw, uncut lyrics of punk & the thoughts of George Orwell. While the bands never acheived any lasting fame, the same could not be said of the Chelsea fans who earned a reputation as the most dangerous in Britain, with the name Headhunters put alongside the ICF as the most feared in Europe & governments taking an interest in them. After Stephen Hickey Hickmott's shock jailing in 1986, Chris took up the mantle of organising a small group of Chelsea fans who travelled to domestic matches by luxury coach
- the style which epitomised the travelling fan in the mid-1980s
- as well as touring extensively abroad with Engl&. No more British Rail specials or budget coach journeys
- this was the designer era of dressing & violence, the reinstatement of old meeting places combined with the shock of flare guns & the gas attack to a backdrop of the new music scene post-punk. Chris & his gang were the second wave of mass arrests & their show trial was meant to be the crowning glory of Thatcher's corrupt systematic squashing of football hooligans once & for all.


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Mum has just got a new job as a firelighter in some unheated volcanoes nearby.
It doesn't matter to Dad, who's at work all day
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Mum has just got a new job as a firelighter in some unheated volcanoes nearby. It doesn't matter to Dad, who's at work all day anyway. & it doesn't matter to Puffing Bill, who just blows smoke rings & backfires all day. But it does matter to Crossfire
- a lot. Who will sing his puff-a-bye at bedtime? When their new au-pair, Smokescreen, arrives & doesn't do anything like Mummy used to do, Crossfire is quizzical & upset. Gradually, though, as the rapport grows between the dragon au pair & Crossfire, he realizes that being with Smokescreen instead of Mum is lots of fun in a different way.
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As lead singer & extraordinary frontman of SLADE, Noddy Holder was one of the most successful musicians of the '70s & '80s. The epitome of the Glam Rock look & lifestyle, they released anthem after anthem as they mixed pure pop madness with football chant choruses. Seemingly on a mission to corrupt the spelling of a generation, the hits are songs we still hold dear today: MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW, LOOK WOT YOU DUN, CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE... In a short few years they had 12 top five hits, 6 of them making 1 spot. Their albums also topped the charts & their huge Christmas anthem MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY has entered the top twenty over 7 times. In the '80s Slade made a brilliant revival with even more hits, especially RUN RUN AWAY & the classic MY OH MY. Today Noddy is as loved by the British public as he has ever been & in this hilarious autobiography he will tell us his complete life story, from growing up in the Midlands, to performing in the working men's clubs. The information of their first group, The N' Betweens & the mutation into an unlikely skinhead group, Ambrose Slade. & then, of course, Glam Rock & all the excesses of lifestyle that accompanied the outrageous clothes, not to mention guitarist Dave Hill's incredible hair style. ...

As lead singer & extraordinary frontman of SLADE, Noddy Holder was one of the most successful musicians of the '70s & '80s. The epitome of the Glam Rock look & lifestyle, they released anthem after anthem as they mixed pure pop madness with football chant choruses. Seemingly on a mission to corrupt the spelling of a generation, the hits are songs we still hold dear today: MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW, LOOK WOT YOU DUN, CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE... In a short few years they had 12 top five hits, 6 of them making 1 spot. Their albums also topped the charts & their huge Christmas anthem MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY has entered the top twenty over 7 times. In the '80s Slade made a brilliant revival with even more hits, especially RUN RUN AWAY & the classic MY OH MY. Today Noddy is as loved by the British public as he has ever been & in this hilarious autobiography he will tell us his complete life story, from growing up in the Midlands, to performing in the working men's clubs. The information of their first group, The N' Betweens & the mutation into an unlikely skinhead group, Ambrose Slade. & then, of course, Glam Rock & all the excesses of lifestyle that accompanied the outrageous clothes, not to mention guitarist Dave Hill's incredible hair style. ...

' Who's in the loo? There's a very long queue. Is it an elephant having a poo?'

If your house has many occupants,

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' Who's in the loo? There's a very long queue. Is it an elephant having a poo?'

If your house has many occupants,

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' Who's in the loo? There's a very long queue. Is it an elephant having a poo?'

If your house has many occupants,

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