PRINCE'S WRONG TURN

Regulars in The Ship Inn, on Holy Island, grumbled to me that their glorious stretch of Northumberland is now represented by a Reform councillor none had heard of, never mind seen. They won't be alone. Let's see how bad the vetting was of supposed nobodies.

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TOUGH as old boots, Roy Mason went down the pit at 14 and fought the IRA as Northern Ireland Secretary in Jim Callaghan's 1976-79 Labour government, deploying the SAS in South Armagh bandit country during a dirty war.