Andrew Martin

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Northside - Andrew Martin prefers a hearty northern breakfast

• 04 August 2003

I have never seen anything in France that you might call proper bacon

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Northside - Andrew Martin revisits the exotic Isle of Wight

• 28 July 2003

Palm trees and heat. Travelling to the Isle of Wight ought to require a passport

Books

The long haul

• 21 July 2003

Coal: a human history Barbara Freese Perseus, 308pp, £15.50 ISBN 0738204005

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Northside - Andrew Martin remembers dandelion and burdock

• 21 July 2003

I liked dandelion and burdock. There was nothing humorous in it at all

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Northside - Andrew Martin is sent to Coventry

• 14 July 2003

Coventry is like a person who's been assaulted, then badly stitched

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Northside - Andrew Martin watches the Man with the Fancy Cars

• 07 July 2003

Why was the Man with the Fancy Cars waiting for a bus in the rain?

Northside - Andrew Martin sees the attraction of ferrets

• 30 June 2003
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"Like kittens with attitude": ferrets are the new big thing

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Northside - Andrew Martin waits for a taxi in Pangbourne

• 23 June 2003

"Are you a taxi service?" I asked. "Yeaarss," said the voice guardedly

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Northside - Andrew Martin finds Preston town centre is a big pub

• 16 June 2003

Preston town centre, a native told me, could be summed up as one great big pub

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Northside - Andrew Martin will never return to Framlingham

• 09 June 2003

The lank-haired lager swiller who put me off going back to Framlingham