"What the maps reveal is, effectively, the fading away of traditional community life in every part of the UK. (Although Northern Ireland data for 1971 are unavailable, later census data show the same trend.)" - Richard Peat
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How much do you worry about the problem of middle-aged women hanging around shopping centres?
Or groups of pensioners huddling together near the post office? Fifty-something businessmen massing by the wine bar? - Richard Peat
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"It was in 1977 that campaigners first called for a boycott of Nestlé because of its aggressive marketing of formula milk in the developing world. Thirty years on, have Nestlé and the other baby-milk firms cleaned up their act?" - Richard Peat
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"Community life in Britain has weakened substantially over the past 30 years, according to research commissioned by the BBC." - Richard Peat
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“Richard is thinking that having fed for nearly an hour non-stop, Lucy is perhaps suffering from indigestion, rather than hunger pangs.” (at Arborfield)
