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Rich has been writing for thisisUll.com from it's launch in August 2003. His tremendous contributions vary widely from news and current affairs, poetry, humour, interviews, fiction and many articles. Rich's contributions are listed below.. Page 1, Page 2, Page 3,

Articles - If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next (How Hull helped the children of Spain.) By Rich Mills
	In May 1937 the Spanish liner Habana left Bilbao in Spain, on-board were 4,200 Basque children being brought to the safety of the UK. The Spanish Civil War had started on July 17th 1936, and the world stood by and watched in horror as innocents were slaughtered. Some however took it upon themselves to do something about the blood-shed. Read more...

Drugs - Parents - Know The Score On Drugs By Rich Mills
	Your children will be given Drugs Education in school at some point in their school life. Would you feel confident to answer their questions truthfully and honestly? Read more...

Drugs - Hull Top 10 Drugs Hell?! by Rich Mills
	In an Observer article of Sunday 12th May 2002, Hull was described as "Britain's new drug capital". Another 'TOP 10' status for us not to be proud of! It sometimes feels like we should just give-up and walk away from this city that seems day-by-day to be going further down the toilet. So why do we bother, why do people like myself battle day-after-day to reverse this trend? Read more...

Going Down - Hit And Run Poetry By Rich Mills
	Well the Renegades have been at it again. Sunday night, as the rest of the world took in the news of Saddam's capture, the Renegade Writers stormed the Jaz Bar in Lowgate, Hull. Now feelings would be mixed, I'm sure, as to whether they went down a storm or like a lead balloon. One thing is for certain - the quiet Sunday audience were not prepared for the Renegades onslaught. Read more...

Articles - Blood On The Streets, Blood On Our Hands
	By Rich Mills This is an after thought, an addition to the previous piece. An after thought! That is a problem some of my friends are having at the moment. And somewhere out there in Hull, there are some people with thoughts of what they have done weighing heavily on their consciences, or so I hope. Read more...

Articles - Memories Of Pearson Park
	By Rich Mills I love Pearson Park It's my Mecca, my place of pilgrimage where I worship the gods in their many forms. The Sun God is a favourite of many, and brings out the all kinds into the city park. A place so far removed from the stress of everyday city life, it could be anywhere! Pearson Park is a Read more...

Articles - Wilberforce Turning In His Grave...
	(Diversity In The City Of Hull) By Rich Mills When I started thinking about this piece, I was originally just going to write about the evening out I had on Saturday (July 19th). I and others around me experienced the cultural diversity that Hull has to offer. A Zulu wedding, a Salsa Night in aid of Deaf Children, Déjà Vu at The Welly, my diverse bunch of mates. Read more...

Interviews - Brain from the Hull Flash Crowd
	By Rich Mills Rich: Alright Brain, so you've given up trying to take over the world every night with your side-kick Pinky, and have moved into organising Flash Crowds, or Flash Mobs as I understand they are also known? Read more...

Fiction - The Art Of Being Alone In A Crowded Bar By Rich Mills
	What music are you into, man? The American exchange student who had earlier introduced himself, without any regard for Jean-Paul's need to be alone, suddenly threw a curve-ball of a question in his direction. Well I listen to... What followed was a definitive list of bands from Jean-Paul's wide ranging rare vinyl Read more...

News - Community Pioneers awards at the KC Stadium July 15th. By Rich Mills
	Hull's Pioneering Spirit Is Recognised A balmy summer's evening, and hundreds of specially invited guests make their way to the new KC Stadium. A guest as part of the Hull Asylum Seekers Support Group contingent, I witnessed an evening of award giving and hearty backslapping. Read more...

News - A Call To Arms .. Or at least to the pen or the keyboard.. By Rich Mills
	If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next There is currently underway a local history research project, in relation to the Basque Children who came to Hull as refugees, during the Spanish Civil War. We are asking anyone with anything they have, or know about this subject area to urgently get in touch.. Read more...

News - Raw Revolutionary Writing By Rich Mills
	The Masses Find Their Literary Voice A balmy summer Sunday saw me attend my first meeting of the Renegade Writers Group, a Hull based writers circle. Now there are apparently a number of writers circles in Hull, the city being such a hot-bed of literary creation and such. Read more...

Fiction - The Newland Chemistry Set
	by Rich Mills "But it's raining... (dum   dum   dub-ba..!   dum   dum) Raining in my heart..." A distant wave of dash-white-line hugging radio being transmitted from the 'WHO THE HELL HAS BEEN MESSING WITH MY TUNER???' morning-show drifted through the rows of tree lined avenues and terraces. Read more...

Fiction - It's Like The Bloody Inquisition! By Rich Mills
	by Rich Mills He couldn't understand why someone would do such a thing! It definitely seemed however, that somewhere someone must have told someone else something about him. Something that wasn't really anyone else's concern. Then again interfering in the lives of others was a deeply annoying trait we were all guilt of. Read more...

Fiction - C(P)U On The Other Side
	by Rich Mills Roy carelessly tossed the apple core in the bin next to his computer. Constructed in a moment of sheer mindless boredom the waste-paper bin was an amalgam of newspaper strips and PVA glue, coated in a thick yellowing layer of varnish. Read more...

Fiction - Chants From The Graveside By Rich Mills
	by Rich Mills There is some old saying about 'idle hands' and doing the Devils work, or some such thing. The assumption then could be that 'idle words' spoken must be those of the Devil also. If in no more a way than an un-reasoned babble is nothing but a distracting noise. A siren song designed to send us off course. Read more...

Poetry - Super Escape
	By Rich Mills Inject the god that makes me whole. That's why I need a drug that hugs my soul. Brief clarity before dirty wind drags me all about. Mind now numb no longer able to dictate a verbal doubt. Perpetuate the cycle of drugs debt and depression. Quit today, stop tomorrow, take a life on Read more...

Poetry - A Spare Five Minutes
	By Rich Mills With a spare five minutes      I scribble these ramblings down. Between herding the kids      And taking over the world. I find a spare five minutes      It was just lying here on the ground. Read more...

Poetry - "Needle Whore" and "Divorce Number 2"
	By Rich Mills Down the corridor and through the door,    There lives nothing more than a needle whore. All his pathetic rock-star dreams,    Are slowly coming apart at the seams. With song lyrics full of false metaphor,    He's a one-man psychological war. Read more...

Poetry - "Chemical Love" and "Digit-ull Shitty"
	By Rich Mills I double dropped before I went in,   Being searched by the doorman put my head-in-a-spin. I pays me money and am through the door,   Head starts to bob, soon drawn to the dance-floor. Then through throbbing heart and a tribal beat,   Two pairs of dilated rolling eyes briefly meet. Read more...