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• Older couples need a living room of one’s own | Brief letters

  30-11-2025 19:10
  Separate rooms | Downsizing homes | Nigel Farage | Hong Kong fires |Idle Working Men’s ClubIt’s not just renters who need a living room (The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed’, 26 November). What about a couple of senior citizens, home most of the time, who do not wish to spend every waking hour in the same room? In our local area there appear to be no flats for sale with a kitchen/diner and se
  
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• Our beautiful multiplex: Milton Keynes council fights to save landmark cinema The Point

  30-11-2025 13:00
  The building was once home to the UK’s first US-style multiplex. Now developers are seeking to demolish it for a new housing schemeForty years ago this month, British cinema-going changed for ever with the opening of The Point in Milton Keynes, the UK’s first US-style multiplex. Looming over Midsummer Boulevard, the Point’s mirrored glass ziggurat and red pyramidal frame audaciously synthesised Maya and Egyptian motifs in a futuristic, hi-tech temple of pleasure. As well as 10
  
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