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Dennis Signy OBE was a former wartime cub reporter on the Hendon and Finchley Times at £4-a-week and became group editor for 17 years in the late Sixties. He was a national press football writer for five decades, is author of several football books and director of Barnet FC. |
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A seasonal offering
Posted on 3:26pm Wednesday 23rd December 2009
I awoke at the crack of dawn on Christmas Day 65 years ago to the raucous background noise of the NCO at Meanee Barracks in Colchester shouting "Wakey, wakey".
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Is Signy a saint or sinner?
Posted on 12:29pm Thursday 17th December 2009
Bouncy comedian Jimmy Tarbuck tried to catch me on the hop when we got together at the 'Saints and Sinners' Club Christmas lunch at the InterContinental Hotel. We had been discussing the decline of Liverpool Football Club when we were joined by two other guests. "Do you know Dennis?" one of them asked Jimmy.
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Bombed out as a hero
Posted on 11:34am Tuesday 24th November 2009
MR Chalk, the rather austere headmaster of Finchley County School at the start of the second world war, once observed that my form 2B was the worst that he had encountered in 27 years as a teacher and he particularly singled me out as a no-hoper academic.
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Stars and Stripes on Parade
Posted on 2:33pm Tuesday 17th November 2009
It was always a source of amusement to me that 14894617 former Sergeant Signy was elected a member of the officers' Mess at Inglis Barracks at Mill Hill and passed the port and brandy to vastly superior ranks on regimental occasions.
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Sock it to 'em Barnet
Posted on 4:14pm Wednesday 28th October 2009
Modesty has always precluded me having a personalised car number plate. Believe that and you'll believe anything.
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Recollections of a murder without motive
Posted on 3:10pm Friday 9th October 2009
Sixty years ago this weekend Leopold and Esther Goodman, a well - off middle - aged Jewish couple, were found beaten to death in their home in Edgware.
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Editors go to the Tower of London
Posted on 6:28pm Monday 5th October 2009
Years and years ago the then Labour leader of Barnet Council, one Robbie Robinson, photographer Rod Brewster and I, in my guise as investigative editor of the Times series, crouched on a roof at Heathrow and watched the old town clerk of the borough return from a holiday in his villa in Spain and be driven back to Hendon in the Mayoral car.
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Who does Nick Clegg play for?
Posted on 9:37am Wednesday 23rd September 2009
Wild horses won't drag from me the exclusive quote on what might have befallen Rio Ferdinand in the Manchester United dressing room on Sunday if Michael Owen had not scored a 95th minute winner against Manchester City.
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The day the Queen Mother smiled at me
Posted on 1:18pm Wednesday 9th September 2009
A Spitfire and a Hurricane will fly past as RAF Bentley Priory, the home of Fighter Command in the second world war, opens its doors in Stanmore to the public this weekend.
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The man they cannot mug
Posted on 3:44pm Wednesday 2nd September 2009
One of my favourite comedians of the glory, glory days of music hall was a fellow named Billy Russell, whose billing proclaimed "On behalf of the working classes". I'm beginning to think I should devise a (not-so-humorous) 2009 follow up version "On behalf of the Barnet council taxpayer".
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