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Woolly security

Susette Palmer has been a councillor for Child’s Hill for 13 years and her husband Monroe is leader of the Lib Dems in Barnet.

The couple were entering the Lib Dem conference in Brighton for a discussion on the academic boycott of Israel. But security refused to let them enter because of a jumper she was making for her grandson.

“I always knit. I have knitted in every party conference without

it ever being a problem,” she said. “I told the security guard to look at the point on the needles – they were less sharp than a pen.”

Senior members eventually came to her aid and resolved the situation. “As it was the Lib Dem conference I knew I would win.”

Ham and High (Ron Rubin)

Twelve acquiescent men

Jonathan Caplan QC is a straightforward, untheatrical speaker. He talks in a slow, measured way, as if guiding the jury slowly into the realms of advanced physics. “Flat racing,” he explains, “is where horses do not go over the jumps.” The defence counsel do not object.

Racing Post (D B C Reed)

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