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b'The Budget\\u2026..Osborne has been holding up the red bag\\u2026.which has pleased the old folk (prospective voters)\\u2026.so it looks like our savings will make a bit of interest for a change. However up jumps Ed Balls with his totally negative view on the whole thing\\u2026.no matter what one side does - the other will disagree with.\\n \\nThere has been a programme on the attempted kidnapping of Princess Anne 20 years ago\\u2026I can\\u2019t remember this can you?...apparently her car was blocked by another on the Mall and her bodyguard got out and was shot three times\\u2026.he has received an award for his bravery\\u2026the guy tried to drag Anne out of the car\\u2026.what was I doing 20 years ago?\\n \\nThere is a programme called \\u201cThe Big Re-Union\\u201d where boy and girl bands are reforming to go back on the road\\u2026it\\u2019s quite interesting but I think some of them need therapy. It all looks a bit contrived to me\\u2026and has a feeling of desperation about it\\u2026.but good luck to them\\u2026I think they will need it.\\n \\nThe Northern Lights are back in the news\\u2026.Carole Kirkwood the weathergirl did an item on them where she went back to her native Scotland to see them\\u2026camera crew at the ready\\u2026but it was too cloudy so that was that\\u2026.I know the feeling\\u2026as I have told you previously that I went to Tromso in Norway to see them\\u2026and you can\\u2019t get any closer\\u2026but it was one of those RARE cloudy nights\\u2026however I had the pleasure of Patrick Moore\\u2019s company with whom I discussed planets you can see which are light years away\\u2026I learnt a lot from this character.\\n \\nI tuned in to radio 2 during the week and caught an interview with Albert Lee\\u2026who for my money is the best guitarist in the world\\u2026and he was saying that because he played country in the sixties he was overlooked because everyone was switching to heavy metal\\u2026.he\\u2019s backed The Everlys,Emmy lou Harris,Shakin\\u2019 Stevens,Clapton and loads of others\\u2026.including Don Woods. Last year I had the pleasure of standing in at a rehearsal with him and James Burton\\u2026.I can now say I\\u2019ve been backed by Albert Lee and James Burton \\u2026AT THE SAME TIME !!!...if that aint cool I don\\u2019t know what is.'