Great Opener!

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Olympics robs Scots of Lottery cash
Published Date: 23 November 2008By Eddie Barnes Political Editor
CHARITIES and voluntary groups in Scotland are facing a crippling 70% cut in Lottery funding from next April as funds are sucked away to feed the vast £10bn cost of the 2012 London Olympics.The body which represents Scotland’s charities will warn this […]

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Funding cut for GB Paralympians
Weir’s double Paralympic gold was one of the GB highlights in BeijingBritish Paralympic athletes face a cut in National Lottery funding as they work towards the 2012 Games.UK Athletics says that future funding will be targeted towards supporting a smaller group of athletes who are deemed capable of success in London.There […]

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Obituaries in the newsBy The Associated Press – Nov 4, 2008Lennart BergelinSTOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Lennart Bergelin, who coached Bjorn Borg for 12 years and captained Sweden to its first Davis Cup title, died Tuesday. He was 83.Peter Bengtsson, a spokesman for the Swedish Tennis Association, said Bergelin died from heart failure at a Stockholm […]

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The international takeover of French literatureThe Afghan-born Prix Goncourt winner Atiq Rahimi. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty
The motives that guide the gaze of the literary world can be bothunthinkingly loyal and randomly fickle. For while there are moresacred cows grazing on the lush pastures of literature’s vastcanonical steppe than there are dead ones hanging in Smithfieldmarket, it […]

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The international takeover of French literature
The Afghan-born Prix Goncourt winner Atiq Rahimi. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/GettyThe motives that guide the gaze of the literary world can be bothunthinkingly loyal and randomly fickle. For while there are moresacred cows grazing on the lush pastures of literature’s vastcanonical steppe than there are dead ones hanging in Smithfieldmarket, it […]

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Could he have won? I understand he was regularly polling more votes than any other contenders. So, YES, he could have won!

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Name them, Shame them……..

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Name them, Shame them…………..

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Still without a proper job!

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Kirstie and Phil’s Location, Location, Location Returns as UK House Prices Crash Housing-Market / UK Housing Nov 20, 2008 - 01:12 AMBy: Nadeem_WalayatKirstie and Phil self professed property experts make a return to the UK’s TV screens with a more muted version of their long standing delusionally bullish UK property candy floss show titled location, […]

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News Review interview: David CameronUnfazed by his falling poll lead, the Tory leader is turning tough, dour and aggressive to challenge an increasingly cavalier Gordon BrownDominic Lawson
David Cameron prides himself on treating Kipling’s two impostors, triumph and disaster, just the same. So in the week when the Conservative lead in the opinion polls has crumbled […]

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Survival InstinctsBy Barry Didcock
BBC’s post-apocalypse classic is back – and the timing is spot-on.
IF 1970S sitcom The Good Life had an evil twin it was Survivors, a post-apocalyptic tale from Dalek creator Terry Nation that ran for three series on BBC One between 1975 and 1977. Today, its cult status assures its place in the […]

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I think all of us have used different ways of acquiring books for the Book club. Some buy in the UK whilst on holiday picking up bargains in Second-hand and Charity shops. For anyone who may wish to use the internet the following are good, reliable and cheap sites:
There’s a global network of second hand […]

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