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Blue plaques should be for unsung heroines too | Letters
Letters: Erika Rushton, Jeanne Rathbone, Steve Morphew and Toby Wood respond to English Heritage’s call for more women to be nominated

31, May, 2023 @3:10 PM

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Peterborough libraries offer amnesty on fines to recover 22,000 missing books
Service says the move is aimed at encourage the return of borrowers who stopped using the library during the Covid pandemic

Sarah Shaffi

25, Oct, 2022 @1:01 PM

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Rik Butcher obituary
Other lives: Journalist turned public relations manager who was a Liberal party activist in the 1960s and 70s

Nick Butcher

01, Jul, 2022 @10:57 AM

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James Watson sentenced to life for 1994 murder of Rikki Neave
Watson, 41, evaded detection for more than 20 years, changing his account as evidence against him piled up

Jamie Grierson

24, Jun, 2022 @11:51 AM

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Mother of murdered Rikki Neave hopes to challenge her child cruelty conviction
Exclusive: Ruth Neave aims to overturn 1996 verdict as James Watson is sentenced for six-year-old’s killing

Jamie Grierson

23, Jun, 2022 @11:19 AM

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James Watson found guilty of murdering Rikki Neave in 1994
Watson convicted after DNA showed he had been in physical contact with six-year-old on day he disappeared

Jamie Grierson

21, Apr, 2022 @3:54 PM

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How ‘manipulator and fantasist’ James Watson nearly got away with murder
Detective who led reinvestigation recalls learning decision not to charge suspect had been reversed

Jamie Grierson

21, Apr, 2022 @1:46 PM

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Guilty verdict for 1994 murder of Rikki Neave ends 27-year mystery
James Watson found guilty at Old Bailey, ending suspicion that six-year-old victim’s abusive mother was killer

Jamie Grierson

21, Apr, 2022 @1:30 PM

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Douglas Coxell obituary
Other lives: Pilot who flew with the RAF during the second world war and then for a civil airline in the Channel Islands

Chris Baker

18, Apr, 2022 @11:36 AM

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Lack of walk-in vaccine centres puts England’s booster jab target at risk
Thousands drive miles as appointment-only systems jeopardise aim of offering third vaccination to all adults by end of month

Chaminda Jayanetti

19, Dec, 2021 @1:32 PM

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John Lewis to close eight more stores, putting 1,500 jobs at risk
Department stores in York, Peterborough, Sheffield and Aberdeen to shut and ‘at home’ shops in Ashford, Basingstoke, Chester and Tunbridge Wells

Sarah Butler

24, Mar, 2021 @11:37 AM

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Wyndham Thomas obituary
Other lives: Garden city advocate who oversaw the development of Peterborough as a new town

Gareth Thomas

14, Feb, 2020 @4:18 PM

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