{"id":25658,"date":"2025-10-03T18:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25658"},"modified":"2025-10-03T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:06:03","slug":"emma-chisit-check-your-karen-vallance-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25658","title":{"rendered":"Emma Chisit? Check your Karen Vallance | Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">And not only mondegreen subtitles (Letters, 2 October). In the spirit of Emma Chisit, I approached my newsagent with my Guardian vouchers to pay what I owed. In a broad Australian accent, he asked my address and looked up his ledger. \u201cKaren Vallance?\u201d he enquired. \u201cOh\u00a0no, no, my name\u2019s Mary!\u201d \u201cYeah I know that! I\u2019m askin\u2019 do yer\u00a0want ya current balance?\u201d <br \/><strong>Mary Weber<\/strong><br \/><em>Eastbourne, East Sussex<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Unfortunately, all wills in the UK are not public documents post-probate (Letters, 26 September). That is only true of those in England and Wales. I can recommend the official gov.uk probate record download service, which makes English and Welsh wills available 14 days after probate has been granted for a very commendable \u00a31.50 each.<br \/><strong>Peter Johnson<\/strong><br \/><em>Leicester<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> How my spirits soared when my eye caught the start of your headline \u201cNigel Farage\u2019s deportation\u2026\u201d (Letters, 26 September). <br \/>Then I read the rest of it.<br \/><strong>Tim Barker<\/strong><br \/><em>Eastington, Gloucestershire<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Escape to the country? No\u00a0chance. Even Country Diary (1\u00a0October) is now political. Please, I\u00a0need a break from all that.<br \/><strong>David Rimmer<\/strong> <br \/><em>Newcastle upon Tyne<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><em><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>email<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>letters<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And not only mondegreen subtitles (Letters, 2 October). In the spirit of Emma Chisit, I approached my newsagent with my Guardian vouchers to pay what I owed. In a broad Australian accent, he asked my address and looked up his ledger. \u201cKaren Vallance?\u201d he enquired. \u201cOh\u00a0no, no, my name\u2019s Mary!\u201d \u201cYeah I know that! I\u2019m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1001,6039,15486,6034,13051,15487],"class_list":{"0":"post-25658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-check","10":"tag-chisit","11":"tag-emma","12":"tag-karen","13":"tag-vallance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}