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	<title>Visa UK</title>
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	<description>Articles about UK visas, immigration and life in Britain by a British journalist</description>
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		<title>English civil war revolutionary dialogue</title>
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How would a girl revolutionary in a story set in the English civil war react if she feared that the pro-democracy Parliamentary army had lost the war?
In the story, she sees a wounded soldier of the Parliamentary army whose uniform is so torn and faded that she fears he is retreating from a lost battle [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/freelance-writing/english-civil-war-revolutionary-dialogue/</link>
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		<title>Organise your writing part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post explains how to correlate or link up the writing that you have saved by printing, it with the copy that you have saved on your computer or portable storage device.
It&#8217;s a continuation of my previous posts organise your writing and organise your writing part 2.
Part 1 explains the advantages of printing your writing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/freelance-writing/organise-your-writing-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Organise your writing part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post takes a closer look at the two methods of organising your writing, it explains in depth the advantages and disadvantages of each, and it&#8217;s a continuation of my previous post organise your writing.
Why is it a better idea to give each scene or chapter a title, rather giving them a number, for example [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/freelance-writing/organise-your-writing-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Organise your writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This system that I use for organising scenes and chapters in a story or novel might be useful for other writers who are writing a story that is pretty long.
It assumes that you print a copy of your writing as well as store it on their computer or portable storage device such as a memory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/freelance-writing/organise-your-writing/</link>
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		<title>Jaws &#8211; the remake.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does this photo of a big inflatable fish &#8216;attacking&#8217; a building have connotations of the classic movie &#8216;King Kong&#8217;, or does it sink to the bottom because a fish doesn&#8217;t have quite the same charisma as a gorilla?
In the film &#8216;King Kong&#8217; the gorilla first attacks and then develops a bond with a pretty blonde [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-humour/jaws-the-remake/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Ratted&#8217; Australian VW vans at Volkswagen rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English is a pretty flexible language, as these  &#8216;ratted&#8217; Volkswagen vans which were originally driven in Australia and were on display at a VW rally in eastern England, proves.
&#8216;Ratted&#8217; means that the paintwork is deliberately left in a pretty poor condition. At least, in a pretty poor condition if you aren&#8217;t a fan of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/uncategorized/ratted-australian-vw-vans-at-volkswagen-rally/</link>
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		<title>English civil war story: writing a treachery and violence scene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post looks at writing a scene for a story about the English civil war that involves treachery and violence between the intelligence agencies of the Royalist forces and the Parliamentary forces
I&#8217;m pretty convinced that each army in the English civil war had its own intelligence agency (although they would not have been called by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/freelance-writing/english-civil-war-story-writing-a-treachery-and-violence-scene/</link>
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		<title>English civil war use of English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article discusses some of the problems that arise with the use of English when writing the dialogue for a short story or novel that is set in the English civil war period of the 1640s, or is set in the British-America colonial period of history, which also encompasses the 1640s.
In the interests of historical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/uncategorized/english-civil-war-use-of-english/</link>
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		<title>Civil war scenarios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This English civil war scenario, an episode from a short story which I&#8217;m writing, recounts how an officer in the Parliamentary army (what might nowadays be called the &#8216;pro-democracy Parliamentary army&#8217;) somewhat brutally recruits men for the army by subjecting them to the cruel realities of the battlefield.
It can be linked to my short story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/freelance-writing/civil-war-scenarios/</link>
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		<title>Tricky writing technique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This opening paragraph in a short story about the English civil war which I&#8217;m writing identifies the main character, the location, the period in which the story is set and even identifies the conflict in the story.
It&#8217;s economical &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t waste any words, and it&#8217;s productive &#8211; it makes each word count, but even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/uncategorized/tricky-writing-technique/</link>
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		<title>On public library cards, tea pots, and Mossad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad apparently used forged British identity documents for  the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, I have decided to take greater care of my valuable identity documents &#8211; especially my public library card.
I normally tuck my library card safely behind the tea pot in the kitchen, between the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-humour/on-public-library-cards-tea-pots-and-mossad/</link>
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		<title>Detroit terrorist attack impacts on UK student visas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of overseas students granted visas to study in the UK is to be reduced in a move that is linked to the foiled Detroit terrorist attack.
British Home Secretary Alan Johnson is introducing more stringent requirements, including the requirement that visa applicants should be able to speak basic English. Also, they will not be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/uk-visa-and-immigration-news/detroit-terrorist-attack-impacts-on-uk-student-visas/</link>
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		<title>The chat room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The theme of this draft short story or maybe novel is the relationship between internet chat rooms and government intelligence agencies; the basic plot is that a surfer discovers a sinister chat room which the intelligence agencies aren&#8217;t aware of.
If you would rather go directly to the episodes of The Chat Room, rather than read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/freelance-writing/the-chat-room/</link>
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		<title>Missing person story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These photos were taken for a missing person story, which as a photojournalist I supplied to a British local newspaper.
They are of the missing person herself, her partner or lover, and some of the people and things in her life.
Photo 1 is of the missing person, a middle aged woman, with her grand daughter: photos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-life/missing-person-story/</link>
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		<title>A health and safety Christmas message</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas message gives thanks to Elf &#8216;n&#8217; Safety, that lovable Santa&#8217;s helper that does so much to make Christmas a joyous happy holiday and also a health and safety conscious holiday.
&#8216;This Christmas, as we gather around the cheery burning yule log fire with our loved ones, let us spare a thought for the Santa&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-life/a-health-and-safety-christmas-message/</link>
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		<title>World War 2 RAF veteran air gunner with Browning machine gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo, of a World War 2 RAF veteran air gunner holding a Browning machine gun similar to the kind of gun he would have used during WW2 is pretty puzzling
It&#8217;s his expression that is puzzling; has picking up the gun reminded him of being in combat? It&#8217;s tempting to claim so, but it&#8217;s too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-life/world-war-2-raf-veteran-air-gunner-with-browning-machine-gun/</link>
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		<title>British flags at night club World Cup show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo, of night club dancers displaying British Union Jack flags during the World Cup, is pretty unusual because night clubs don&#8217;t usually stage shows about football (soccer in the US, of course.)
The show even featured dancers kicking a football around the stage.
Perhaps surprisingly, the show wasn&#8217;t staged at a London nightclub or a night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-life/british-flags-at-nightclub-world-cup-show/</link>
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		<title>Harriet Harman to be prosecuted over &#8216;mobile phone car smash&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Labour&#8217;s deputy leader is facing charges of driving without due care and attention and driving while using a hand-held mobile telephone.
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		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-life/harriet-harman-to-be-prosecuted-over-mobile-phone-car-smash/</link>
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		<title>Sadistic mother-of-eight found guilty of abusing her children with belt, meat mallet, hot screwdriver and even a garlic crusher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 37-year-old attacked the children &#8211; all aged between four and 16 &#8211; with objects including a belt, a broken coat hanger and a meat-tenderising mallet.
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		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-life/sadistic-mother-of-eight-found-guilty-of-abusing-her-children-with-belt-meat-mallet-hot-screwdriver-and-even-a-garlic-crusher/</link>
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		<title>Brown refuses to rule out tax hike as public borrowing heads for record £200billion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Experts fear borrowing for 2009 will near £200billion after a record £11.4billion in October alone. This will shatter Alistair Darling&#8217;s prediction of £175billion.
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		<link>http://www.visauk.biz/british-life/brown-refuses-to-rule-out-tax-hike-as-public-borrowing-heads-for-record-200billion/</link>
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