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  BAD boy of rock Keith Richards achieved worldwide fame in the Rolling Stones. But his family had another goal – political power in Walthamstow.  Reporter DANIEL BINNS finds out more.
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           <description><![CDATA[POET, philosopher and teacher, Nicholas Hagger’s career has taken him from the court of imperial  Japan to Libya in the throes of the Gaddafi revolution on the 1960s. 
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