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  • William-Kate gnome statues to raise money for kids

    Tiny gnome statues of Prince William and his pregnant wife Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, will be auctioned online to raise money for children to learn about gardening in schools. The gnome statues were displayed at the Chelsea Flower Show, the Daily Mirror reported. "Gnomes are often associated with good luck, I could not think of a more popular couple that the nation is wishing good luck ...

  • England to tour West Indies in February

    England and the West Indies will play three Twenty20 matches and three One-Day Internationals in the Caribbean early next year, the West Indies Cricket Board announced. The three One-Day Internationals will be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds in Antigua while Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the T20 games, the WICB said Saturday, reports CMC. The Twenty20 matches will be ...

  • Kirani James outpaces rivals to win in Shanghai

    World and Olympic champion Kirani James powered to victory against his main rivals from London 2012 Olympics in the 400 metres at Shanghai's Diamond League meet. The Grenadian quarter miler raced ahead on the final bend to edge 2008 Olympic champion, the USA's Lashawn Merritt, into second place Saturday, reports Xinhua. Luguelin Santos of the Dominican Republic, the silver medallist from last ...

  • Asteroid 9 times larger than Queen Elizabeth 2 ship to sail past Earth on May 31

    Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. While QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) - or larger-radar ...

  • Thugs rob man of camcorder in Horley

    News A man on his way to have images developed off his camcorder in Horley was set on by two thugs who robbed him of it. The victim, aged in his 20s, was approached by the men near the junction of Church Road and Ringley Avenue. One of the pair grabbed him while the other swiped the camcorder, a black Sony Handicam, from his hand. They then made off, leaving their victim shaken ...


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My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) [DVD]

My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud) [DVD]

The protagonist in My Night at Mauds (Ma nuit chez Maud), the third of Eric Rohmers six Moral Tales, is never given a name. And, while the use of the first-person possessive My in the title suggests that we are meant to view the story through his eyes, Rohmer keeps ... ...

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  • West Middlesex hospital holds just-for-fun chocolatey clinical trials

    West Middlesex Hospital ran a clinical trial that any chocolate lover would be rushing to take part in this week. The special just-for-fun chocolate trial, which was held in celebration of International Clinical Trials Day, proved unsurprisingly popular. Almost one hundred volunters were taken through a similar process to an actual clinical trial, and given a bar of either milk or ...

  • Jeremy Hunt backs Lord Feldman in swivel-eyed loons row

    Jeremy Hunt , the health secretary, has offered strong support for the Conservative co-chairman Lord Feldman, who is fighting allegations that he made disparaging remarks about Tory activists.Speaking ...

  • Lamborghini seized after driver catches cops attention while speeding

    Speedy way to get caught: The seized Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder A rare Lamborghini, worth 157,000, has been seized for having no insurance after its speeding driver caught officers attention. Officers from Richmond's Safer Transport Team were on covert patrol in an unmarked police car when they spotted a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder driving at speed up and down Sheen Road in ...

  • Lord Feldman loons and press hypocrisy

    mad, swivel-eyed loons " remark about Tory activists, attributed to one of David Cameron's closest advisers - the one with "strong social connections to the PM", hint, hint - has taken on a life of its own in the Tory press. What the press doesn't spot, as usual, is how the incident also exposes the hypocrisy of the newspapers involved.Lord Feldman, top-drawer barrister ...

  • Sutton school celebrates glowing report

    Students hard at work A report into Homefield School in Sutton has described pupils as "confident, highly motivated, enthusiastic, with high self-esteem, excellent personal development and maturity." The school recevied the report from the independent schools' inspectorate (isi), which said good teaching was at the heart of the school's success. Little ones also ...

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