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“You think you’re gonna stand up to them, but it’s different when it happens,” she said.

Stand Up to Racism counter-protesters were significantly outnumbered outside the Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council offices.

A prominent French anti-drugs campaigner whose brother was killed by drugs criminals last week, five years after the murder of his elder brother, has vowed to stand up to intimidation and "keep telling the truth about drugs violence".

For it is a rare, brave soul who will stand up to a figure of authority in high dudgeon, a fact that Penelope now hoped to take advantage of.

“I think painting is his true calling. Perhaps someday there will be an entire gallery at the British Museum devoted to his art. And Cassiopeia has a fierce sense of justice, don’t you agree? And the courage to stand up to figures of authority in high dudgeon. I would not be surprised if she sat on the bench someday.”