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The Eastern Counties is little more than a month away and this week the Eastern Counties Cricket Association made some very bold changes in an effort to modernise their competition.
They’ve changed the allocation of overs and they’ve changed the rule...
DATE: Jun 05, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Clay Smith
The detail, Mr Editor, is where you find the devil — so often followed by discord, division and disagreement when people don’t like what they eventually discover in the fine print. Legislation can be like that if you are not careful.
The Health Insu...
DATE: Jun 05, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
John Barritt
These are dangerously challenging times, morally challenging even, to be aligning oneself too closely to the hierarchy of Fifa, the disgraced world governing body of football.
The supposed guardians of the most popular sport on Earth are in a right m...
DATE: Jun 05, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Dexter Smith
“We need to listen to what the people are saying.” — OBA MP Leah Scott, May 29, 2015, House of Assembly.
On April 20, 2015, in a press release, the American College of Radiology [ACR] highlighted its concerns with the draft United States Preventive S...
DATE: Jun 05, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous
The seas were very rough under a grey sky, with many of the men fighting seasickness on ships being tossed about in an angry ocean as they headed for one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War.
It was June 6, 1944, and under the command...
DATE: Jun 05, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Al Seymour
Susie Switch paid a midseason visit to our house last week, scooping up a bucket full of candy that the kids had been stashing since Christmas.
The excitement level was pretty major, you honestly would have thought that Santa himself was on his way....
DATE: Jun 05, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Catherine Burns
Here’s a pop quiz.
Your child has lost their school sweater on the coldest day of the year, only weeks after recovering from walking pneumonia.
Do you:
A. Send them in a trendy Gap sweater. It’s navy blue, so it’s almost right, except for the huge l...
DATE: Jun 04, 2015
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Slacker Mom
Years ago, backpacking through Central America, I went bungee jumping.
Before you picture idyllic scenes of diving off bridges above emerald rivers … let me correct you. This was at night in a parking lot in Cancun. It seemed a good idea at the time...
DATE: Jun 03, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Julia Pitt
By Becky Wright
I have a confession to make: I was once obsessed with my weight.
Every morning without fail, I would wake up, roll out of bed, stumble into the bathroom and before I’d even had a chance to gain proper consciousness, I’d step onto th...
DATE: Jun 03, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Becky Wright
As we paint our walls, there will be two brushes that we generally use. A “broad brush” 4in to 6in wide used to cover vast areas. Also a smaller “cutting brush” 0.5in to 1.5in wide used for intricate areas.
Over the course of the past 400 years, as ...
DATE: Jun 03, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Christopher Famous