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Day Tripper: Time is hopefully a great healer with the last word on the game at Walsall as Exiled Essex Boy explains what a tough job it is to bring you all these reports.

Radio DJs push heavy drinking, says study
Radio stations have reacted with outrage to a report accusing DJs, including Radio 1s Chris Moyles, of encouraging irresponsible drinking. By Owen Gibson

Prescotts book most discarded in hotel rooms
The thwarted aspirations of the man who discarded both The Kama Sutra for Dummies and How To Be a Gentleman in Seven Days in a Southampton hotel room can only be imagined, but sex manuals were just the tip of the reject pile in budget hotels this summer

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An almost balmy night at the height of the summer season at Blackpools Opera House and an excited sell-out crowd is standing to attention to the patriotic strains of God Save the Queen. Families with children, pensioners and people in wheelchairs are clutching their bulldog-emblazoned programmes and waving Union flags in happy anticipation of the evenings entertainment.