13 September 1972. 1st episode of ITV crime drama series Van der Valk was broadcast. It featured a detective based in Amsterdam called Simon ("Piet") Van Der Valk, played by Barry Foster. There were 32 episodes produced, until 19 February 1992. youtube.com/watch?v=Z0O-...

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13 September 1974. 1st episode of Rockford Files was broadcast on the US-NBC network. It starred James Garner as LA private detective Jim Rockford. There were 6 series. Each episode began with the image of Rockford's answering machine and a voice message. youtube.com/watch?v=W1zY...

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To see the sausage being made, look at this front page, then watch last night's Sky News "Wrap". Tony Diver co-wrote the piece, was preceded by Ed Conway explaining with charts that this was a global reaction. Diver agreed, yet NOBODY challenged that front page. Today, it had become Badenoch's PMQs.

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I got you. Don't know why it was deleted, maybe it's fake.

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A remarkable stat: In the years before the Good Friday Agreement, about 7,000 Irish passports a year were being issued to people in Northern Ireland. Now the figure is 84,980.

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