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2008: Your Guide to the Year Ahead - February

Posted 9/01/2008 by The Daily Diary

Continuing your exclusive look at the biggest stories of 2008 - before they happen.

February
Fresh controversy over the Carter reforms resurfaces when veteran pop strumpet Madonna adopts a legal aid lawyer.

“They are so totally cute,” the claw-handed chanteuse confides to Cosmopolitan. “When they look up at you with those big, dark eyes and their threadbare Suits You pinstripe, it’s just impossible to resist.”

However, human rights campaigners say it is unfair to remove legal aid lawyers from their natural habitat of Peckham in order to wander the streets of Chelsea and Islington, where they are often found “disorientated and unable to afford so much as a Parma-ham-and-rocket focaccia”.