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‘ Reflections on Savile at Duncroft’

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by Anna Raccoon on February 25, 2014

‘Reflections on Savile at Duncroft’

Edinburgh ESRC Project

Securing a data set on allegations of sexual abuse made againstÂ

the former disc jockey, Jimmy Savile

This project aims to secure data that

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What a Difference a CFA Makes! – Part Four.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 5, 2013

Restorative v. Retributive Justice is a debate as old as civilisation. Restorative Justice is possibly the most fashionable at the moment, in that it focuses on the needs of the victim – and offender. It is a

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What a Difference a CFA Makes! Part Three.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 4, 2013

Another day, another CFA. Good Lord, another Russell, Jones and Walker client. How strange that they should all choose the same brief?

It is 1974, yet again, and yet again the claimant is 14(question mark). How

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What a Difference a CFA Makes! Part Two.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 3, 2013

For those of us interested in actual truth, until today, we were still where we started; the only allegations which have seen the light of day – Continue reading →

What a Difference a CFA Makes! Part One.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 2, 2013

A ‘CFA’ is a Conditional Fee Agreement – in plain English it is a type of insurance that will ensure you do not receive a bill for the time and effort expended by your legal team –

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What a Difference a CFA Makes! Part Two

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by Anna Raccoon on September 2, 2013

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The misery hiding behind the Savile headlines.

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by Anna Raccoon on July 13, 2013

I spoke yesterday of the vast volume of mail I am receiving, since starting to write of the Savile case. Some makes me angry beyond belief – and as if by magic, one such arrived overnight. The writer is

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The Magna Carta – Walking in King John’s footsteps.

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by Anna Raccoon on June 19, 2013

798 years ago today, King John set his seal on the Magna Carta. The contents of that historic document had been bitterly argued over for four days. During those days, as the Barons struggled to wrest the

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Walking in King John's Footsteps…

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by Anna Raccoon on June 19, 2013

798 years ago today, King John set his seal on the Magna Carta. The contents of that historic document had been bitterly argued over for four days. During those days, as the Barons struggled to wrest

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Nine.

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by Anna Raccoon on April 28, 2013

Good morning world – I think I can face you again. It has been an utterly miserable couple of weeks. It is only the steadfast support of Mr G that has firmly plonked me down in front of the computer again this morning with instructions to write.

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Eight.

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by Anna Raccoon on November 20, 2012

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy – this entire shebang grows more bizzarre by the hour, if not by the minute.

Overnight, a woman called Andrea Davison has emerged to claim that she was also at Duncroft, and there she

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Seven.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 31, 2012

Evening all; pull up a chair and pin your ears back.

I have, this evening, had a long talk with Miss Margaret Jones, headmistress of Duncroft for many years. It was almost 50 years since we had spoken

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Six.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 29, 2012

The opening sequence of the Panorama film featuring the alleged sexual abuse of children at Duncroft lingered on a huge and imposing set of Victorian iron gates.  Half open, they conjured up an image of a peek inside a forbidden and

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Five.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 26, 2012

Perhaps we should be renaming the BBC; instead of the friendly â€™Aunty Beeb’ conjuring up a safe pair of trustworthy womanly hands, would ‘Uncle Beeb’ with all the connotations of the furtive, fiddling Uncle, whose lap you avoid sitting on, be more suitable? It

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Four.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 24, 2012

First some corrections from yesterday – I was very tired and didn’t proof read properly; dining is spelt dining, not dinning; I’m has got an m after the apostrophe; I was 16 and coming up to my 17th birthday

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Three.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 23, 2012

Duncroft! I never thought I would hear that name again – and suddenly it is on everybody’s lips! It is nearly 50 years ago that the car I was in drew up outside that familiar facade and I prepared to enter yet another

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part Two

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by Anna Raccoon on October 22, 2012

Where was I? Oh, yes, Cumberlow Lodge, South Norwood. Politely described as a ‘children’s home’ – no doubt to honour the strictures of the will of the Victorian philanthropist, W E Stanley, who had left his much loved home

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Past Lives and Present Misgivings – Part One.

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by Anna Raccoon on October 21, 2012

The blog post that won’t go away is still bouncing around in my head; the Sunday newspapers today have further infuriated me – and after long talks with Mr G, I have made the decision to publish.

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Collateral damage.

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by Anna Raccoon on September 2, 2010

There is a miniature tape recorder inside every female brain that loops a continuous message, implanted at our Mother’s breast.

‘Little princess, you will grow up to be beautiful and make some

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