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Press deputy editor Bill Hearld recently offered to hand over his Tuesday column to anyone who could do better. Several people responded and here are their offerings as guest columnists.

If you wish to submit a column for publication on this website, send it in.

Remember, it must be legal, decent and honest.

Away-day beggarsAway-day beggars
I was very interested in the article last month about "alleged" drug dealing by beggars in Stonegate, York.
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Council should shut all the loosCouncil should shut all the loos
IN THE days of old it was acceptable for women to urinate in the street. Skirts were so long and rigid, so all they did was stand over a drain cover and "spend a penny".
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Running scared... of coming lastRunning scared... of coming last
MY BOYFRIEND and I are in a bad way at the moment.
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Thank heaven for pink pigsThank heaven for pink pigs
From teeth whitening to tummy tucks, cosmetic surgery is now accessible to more people than ever. I recently looked in to laser eye surgery and found I asked questions of myself that I never expected.

A badge of little honourA badge of little honour
I WAS walking along Davygate and coming towards me was a car. I stepped off the road to let it pass, but the car turned down New Street.
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The ideal date is a love matchThe ideal date is a love match
SO how was it for you? Valentine's Day has been and gone for another year, and whether you were a winner or a loser depends on the softness of your heart.

Distant hope or a mere mirage?Distant hope or a mere mirage?
IN A gloomy corridor behind the kitchen of the Capanna coffee shop, in downtown Iowa City, presidential candidate John Edwards leans against a wall.

When cutbacks can cost livesWhen cutbacks can cost lives
"FIRE kills..." How many times have we seen those two words describe a fatal incident?
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Time to shake up these eventsTime to shake up these events
I NEVER thought I would be thinking this, let alone writing it, but I am seriously disappointed with a couple of city centre events, namely the St Nicholas Fayre and the German Market.
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Moving on from a troubled past
TURN on the news most days of the week and invariably there will be something on about lives being lost in war zones across the world.

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