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Trade unionist’s criminal debut of note

Best Served Cold
by Richard Garner
(Umbria Press, £8.99)


HAVING finally hung up my dancing shoes as the Star’s industrial correspondent, I’ve returned to Liverpool this week for what could be my last trip to a national teaching union conference.

These events have taken me to Cardiff, Brighton and Harrogate over the past three years. They attract a full pack of journalists on the road, as opposed to the depleted industrial corps of three, maximum, that cover the other unions.

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