Discount retailers want to maintain their reputation for value, but they also want to keep up with what consumers want from the style side of the aisle.

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Mr Herring reckons that audiences are tired of being lectured at by 80s-style polemical comics and so he is planning to keep the political stuff in his act to a minimum.

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After a restorative day spent unwinding in this quiet refuge or strolling the shops of downtown Culpeper, learn to cook with true Southern style with one of the inn's seasonally changing cooking classes, which include recipes to keep.

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