We used to hide from the loan sharks – but this lender is different
	8:35am Fri 16 May 08
	WHEN doorstep lenders came calling at Paul and Joanne Knight's home they used to hide, pretending they were out.

	I would recommend being a cat foster parent to anyone
	9:13am Fri 9 May 08
	WHEN you step into Valerie Briggs' front room, you'd be forgiven for thinking that this was just another home in a sleepy suburb of Worcester.

	Why I earn every penny of my £170,000 salary to run the county council
	8:29am Fri 2 May 08
	SO how much are you prepared to pay for a decent boss? When it emerged last summer that Worcestershire County Council's next chief executive was to be paid a whopping £170,000 a year of council taxpayers' money, a storm of controversy erupted.
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	Stranded on the M5? Meet the people who will make sure that help is on its way
	8:57am Fri 25 Apr 08
	I had been told your life expectancy on the hard shoulder of a motorway is 11 minutes, so when we stopped to help a lorry driver who was stuck after a blowout I was wary about staying too long.