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Welcome back to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham.

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And I'm going to ask you for something special today because what I want from you are your stories,

because that's what we're all about.

We need to know from you.

What exactly is going on up and down the length and the breadth of the country? A couple of things have occurred to me today. The first was what happened yesterday. Secondly, what happened to me yesterday. I walked into a shopping centre, my local shopping centre, which is frequented by all manner of people, people from all over the world,

you might say, because it's in a part of South East London, which is pretty populous.

It's pretty well acquainted with all sorts of people from yuppies who go and work in Canary

Wharf in the Financial District to people who have just recently come to live here from another

country. There's all kinds of, you know, cool shops there.

There's all kinds of interesting things to do. I walked into this shopping centre yesterday to be greeted

with the scene that I'm sure many of you see on a daily basis. And it was a fight, basically.

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon. And there were three security guards attempting

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