27 Aug 2008 at 1:34am August Bank Holiday sees my home town transformed. It's Plum Fayre time. The plum was brought back from the Middle East by Richard 1 (lion heart) and entrusted to the care of the monks of Pershore Abbey. The Benedictine brothers were diligent ...
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26 Aug 2008 at 10:57pm Sept. 1, 2008 -- You're a leader, a go-getter, and that likely means that you've tried a lot of crazy things to get rich over the years, or to at least pay the bills. You've had jobs, gotten promoted, then found better jobs, etc. Maybe you bought a ...
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26 Aug 2008 at 10:35pm Hip-hop vet MC Hammer, who gave the world parachute pants and hits like "U Can't Touch This" and "Too Legit to Quit" in the '80s, will never succeed Mr. Blackwell as fashion guru. As far as Hammer is concerned, it's dandy if pop star Cyndi Lauper ...
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26 Aug 2008 at 10:47am Daredevil Claire Scott has become a British and World formation skydiving champion in the space of less than a fortnight. The plucky 35-year-old, from Marsh Gibbon near Bicester, was one of four women who stormed both competitions in the four-way ...
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26 Aug 2008 at 8:16am The prize winning Royal Signals Formation Skydiving team, left to right: Major Simon Bristow, Cpl Ian Lyons, Cpl Adele Murray and WO1 (FofS) Rob Campbell While the Olympic Games was thrilling the world in China, the Joint Services Parachute Centre at ...
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25 Aug 2008 at 5:29pm Sky diving, bungee jumping, parasailing.. several things many of us may never get the chance - or want the chance - to do...but not one local woman. 83 year old Wanda Dillon conquered something she had been wanting to do for some time, she went ...
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25 Aug 2008 at 3:34pm Republican presidential candidate John McCain said today in Sacramento that he will compete in California, promising a roomful of donors that he will not "take your money and leave." McCain, who did not hold a public event in Sacramento, addressed ...
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