Duel Carriageway may Ruin Battlefield

UPDATE 23rd February 2007 ''There certainly is a need, rather a necessity to build a duel carriageway ring road around Northampton town center. At the moment you have only one road to travel from one side to another. Even this one road is a problem, look at the number of...

Northampton Council cuts to hit bus routes

"Council cuts to hit bus routes VOLUNTARY sector workers in Northampton have warned proposed cuts to their funding could have a devastating impact on hundreds of people in the town. Community grants – which provide vital sources of funding to many charities in Northampton...

Ex-Rocker Peter Garrett Gets Climate Change Portfolio

"Ex-Rocker Peter Garrett Gets Climate Change Portfolio December 10, 2006 1:20 AM - Warren McLaren, Sydney PeterGarrett.jpg Two years ago we noted that the ex-frontman for the rock band Midnight Oil had left his second term as President of the Australian Conservation...

How To Decorate For a Memorable Holiday Party

"# Plan your party around a theme or a seasonal color scheme. Finding decorations and making plans will be easier. Choose anything from Santa to snowmen, music to angels. Find some other ideas for holiday theme ideas. Red, white, green, gold, and silver are traditional...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Cooling Wins Eleanor Farjeon Award: Bookstart Her Masterpiece of Altruism

"Wendy Cooling has won the U K’s Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished contributions to children’s literature. Cooling’s achievements over a lifetime of involvement with children’s books include a stint as the head of the Children’s Book Foundation,...

Gulf War - Searching For a Strategy?

"The departure of Donald Rumsfeld heralds the return of some old Bush family friends. Here's how they plan to get the U.S. out of Iraq. In the heady days after the first Gulf War, Robert Gates liked to tell a story about his boss, George Herbert Walker Bush. As Bush 41 was...

Uptown Downtown Runaround: Renzo Piano and New York’s Whitney Museum

"Nov. 2, 2006 - While museums around the country have been opening glamorous additions by star architects, the Whitney Museum of American Art can’t seem to get its act together. In 1985, the museum shelved a high-profile scheme by Michael Graves (the guy most famous...

Iran's public relations agency at work

An amusing post of Michael Totten's on Iran's tours of its nuclear facilities: "Some people might actually be convinced by this scheme. Plenty have been fooled into believing Iran is a "democracy."

Neath Port Talbot road accident records studied

"A major scheme to cut the number of Neath Port Talbot road accidents has reached an important point. Accident records are now being monitored at sites around the borough which have benefited from work under the programme."

£110m road scheme bridges gaps in Port Talbot

"A series of new footbridges along one of Port Talbot's key roads is taking shape. Five of the new structures are due to rise above Afan Way over the next few months - one has just gone up near the road's junction with Seaway Parade."