SURVIVING HURRICANE DEAN

Hurricane Dean is now storming through the Caribbean on its way to devastate Jamaica sometime tomorrow.He paid us a visit early on Friday morning while still a little hurricane; winds ...
(25/09/2007)
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WAKEBOARDING

'I'm straight, I'm straight, I'm straight,' words I haven't shouted at another man since I was at a Girls Aloud gig at G-A-Y in London ...
(25/09/2007)
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BY SUE BRICKAY

Did the 'smiling Pope' jump or was he pushed? In 1978 when Pope John Paul l joined his maker just 33 days after he was elected by the College of ...
(26/06/2007)
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BOOK REVIEW

Ever heard of Malcolm Wallace? He was named as John F Kennedy's assassin in three separate confessions and legal documents. Did you know that when doctors go on strike, death rates ...
(25/09/2007)
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BOOK REVIEW

All right, don't all shout at once.Dr Stephen Bunker (Ph.D historian, author, OU lecturer and Bedfordshire born and bred) knows his geography ...
(25/09/2007)
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Have you ever noticed there are certain questions in life you don't know the answers to, don't know where to find the answers and don't know anyone else who ...
(13/08/2007)
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TRAVEL

Far away places with strange sounding names have long been a passion and the Azores, a group of brilliantly green islands nestling in the Atlantic Ocean almost a thousand miles ...
(25/09/2007)
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BY ALEX FINKENRATH

Willingly i took my better half and two daughters (aged one and four) for a weekend break at one of Britain's biggest caravan camps ...
(25/09/2007)
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BY SUE BRICKAY

'Where's the map?' said Julian, chomping heartily on a jam sandwich.
"Is that it George? Oh, goodie. Now - where shall we spread it?' 'X marks the spot,' said Dick, swigging down ...
(08/05/2007)
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SPORTING TARGETS

When I was young I lived with my nan for a bit and she had a next door neighbour called Melvyn who loved to go shooting. I never understood why until ...
(28/04/2007)
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GOLF

Winston churchill got it right. "Golf," he rumbled, "is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the ...
(20/04/2007)
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BY SUE BRICKAY

You could have been forgiven for thinking it was all just an April Fool. Last weekend, when the news came out that a gallery in Manhattan was about to exhibit a ...
(05/04/2007)
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BY SUE BRICKAY

There's no getting away from it, I am a scaredy-cat. I'm not proud of being a wimp and I don't recommend it but give me a choice between sitting through the ...
(05/04/2007)
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ST. GEORGE'S DAY

Last weekend in Bedford there was enough Guinnessswilling, twiddley-diddley music-making revelry to convince any visiting alien that they had landed slap bang in the middle of County Cork ...
(05/04/2007)
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INTERVIEW: ROBERT DAWS

Time stands still in Elsinby. Time is fairly sluggish in Ampthill on occasion but now the little town boasts a shiny new Waitrose overflowing with organically-grown sunblush tomatoes and handrolled Duchy ...
(05/04/2007)
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