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Across the UK, online, on DAB and on your smart speaker, the Independent Republic of Mike Graham,

on Talk Radio.

Good morning, welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk Radio.

Well, we have reached the end of a quite remarkable and momentous week, which if you'd

asked me about on Monday,

I could never possibly have predicted. The latest lockdown is providing people with very

little respite for doing anything at all, and people are wondering how on earth they'll be

able to stick with all of these restrictions until March. This morning, I'd love to hear from

all of you about what exactly you're doing, how you're coping, what you're seeing, whether the

police are enforcing the stricter rules and exactly how you are going to cope with this

particular lockdown. But before we do anything else, I must address something that has completely

infuriated me this morning, ladies and gentlemen. And it is this. There is a despicable individual

out there in the big wide world who is scamming old people with a fake vaccine,

going from door to door in the southeast of England pretending to be from the NHS.

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