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Right, I'm back from my Big Event (it's on youtube, if you look hard enough), just in time to blow my own trumpet.The Guardian yesterday splashed on the Taliban stalling a key hydro-electric dam project in Afghanistan.  Good work lads - almost up there with my story revealing the same on

Who knew Wayne and Coleen Rooney were such
close students of world affairs?

Some say they named their son Kai because
it means “keeper of the keys” in Welsh and Scottish.

Others...

I was going to call this “People who need
to be stabbed in the face”, but apparently we have to be responsible tabloid
journalists.

 

That list in full:

Sky are giving it the big one at the minute about Ross Kemp: Behind The Story, plugging it by saying of the former thespian's stuff from Afghanistan: "He's spent more time on the ground than any British journalist"Really, Ross Kemp?I've been there more than you have, son.And loads of journalists have been there much more than me.Including quite a few ...

It would be fantastic if this story that England women's coach Hope Powell is getting the Grimsby Town job turns out to be true.She'd have her work cut out mind.Not only is Hope a woman, she's also black.And her colour might be a bigger issue than her gender to some of the locals.When I was a reporter on the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, a clinching goal by an Af...