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- A journey in reconciliation? CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien #crweek13
Alan in Belfast (Today) - On Monday evening as part of Community Relations Week, Rev Mercia Malcolm shared some of the findings from her sabbatical research into the relationship between Oxford literary giants CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien.The event was... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- UNESCO pitches golf ball into Runkerry bunker
Slugger O'Toole (Today) - It took a long time to work through the planning process, but in February 2012 the Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort and Spa finally received planning permission. A year later in February 2013, the National Trust... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Labour titans to clash heads over Royal Glamorgan?
RCT Welsh Lib Dems (Today) - Commenting on the news that the preferred option for the South Wales Programme involved the removal of critical care services from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital Welsh Liberal Democrat Councillor Mike Powell said"Whilst the amalgamation of... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- News from the UK
Wings Over Scotland (Today) - We don’t normally pick out individual stories from the Sealand Gazette and put them on the front page, but, well, you’ll see why we’ve done it today in a few seconds’ time. The piece below... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Report card shows Council pledges on track, one year on
Andrew Burns' Really Bad Blog (Today) - Published Friday 24 May 2013 A review of pledges made to Edinburgh residents by the Council shows that the majority are progressing well. The ‘contract with the capital’, published after the 2012 local government elections, details... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- According to Question Time, SF=IRA, DUP=Goodies
Slugger O'Toole (Today) - Great bit of on the spot photojournalism from Simon Whittaker. During the filming of last nights Question Time by Mentorn Media for the BBC, he captured the notes attached to the television camera. It gives... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Where in their manifesto did it mention loss of hospital services?
RCT Welsh Lib Dems (Today) - Given the haste of the Pontypridd AM and MP in particular to jump on the bandwagon with their sudden road to Damascus conversion and desire to save the Royal Glamorgan in its current form I... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- What Don’t You Know?
Bella Caledonia (Today) - Woad-Wary? Indy-Sceptic? Dunno-tastic? You’ve come to the right place… Now and then you’ve got to step back and re-imagine how and why you’re doing things. We’ve been thinking about what Continue reading →... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Health Service response 2006
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- Crossing the borders
Wings Over Scotland (Today) - Readers will be aware that while we still link to articles in the Scotsman, we rarely encourage anyone to read pieces by Brian Wilson or Michael Kelly. Both generally issue furious, barely-coherent rants consumed by... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Ní Chuilín stops (unexplained) HET blocking move on release of inquest documents to relatives
Slugger O'Toole (Today) - It’s hard to disagree with Brian when he says there is no real serious attempt to deal with the past. On the Republican side, the understanding is that that is not possible until everything is... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Muslim Voices
Action 4 Equality Scotland (Today) - Here are two very different points of view about the terrible murder in Woolwich - from Ali Miraj writing in The Independent newspaper and Mehdi Hasan whose comment piece appears in today's Telegraph. Now I have written about Mehdi Hasan on... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The case against the snooper's charter remains unchanged
Peter Black AM (Today) - It was interesting, though not unexpected, that following the appalling attrocity in Woolwich, many of the usual voices re-emerged calling for the reinstatement of the communications data bill that Nick Clegg quite correctly blocked a... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Enough Political Platitudes, Time For Action
Subrosa (Today) - The horrors of Wednesday afternoon in Woolwich will stay in the minds of many for years. It will be perpetually in the thoughts of the family of Drummer Lee Rigby for the rest of their lives and... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- “Where do the Swedes go to let out their aggressions?”
Slugger O'Toole (Today) - At a time of unrest in Sweden, I picked this sideways take on the communitarian social model from a good Swedish friend (almost completely proving the national cliche in the video)…... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Golden Goodbyes
Action 4 Equality Scotland (Today) - Here are some more incredible number crunching revelations from the latest edition of Private Eye.No doubt these will provoke an understandable reaction of shock and disbelief - amongst the conscript army of BBC licence fee payers - of which I am... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- North Korea – New Shock!
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- Does a small tax really make so much difference?
Borthlas (Today) - Last week, a cross-party group of MPs urged the UK Government not to devolve Air Passenger Duty (APD). No real surprise there – most MPs seem to be as strongly against devolving anything as I... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Harris Academy - decant transport arrangements - an update
Fraser Macpherson (Today) - Last night, I attended the latest meeting of Harris Academy Parent Council. Further to the information given to the Harris Academy Project Board on 24th April, there was an update on school transport arrangements... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Expressing Identity — Addressing Division: CRC Annual Policy Conference 2013
Slugger O'Toole (Today) - Expressing Identity: Addressing Division Apologies for tardy posting; thanks for Mick for posting snippet by Eamonn McCann: http://sluggerotoole.com/2013/05/22/eamonn-mccann-people-sometimes-say-these-traditions-have-gone-on-forever-no-they-have-not/ This year’s annual policy conference of the Community Relations Council (CRC) was held in Derry-Londonderry, a fresh change... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - New In Last 12 Hours
- From Friends of Wighton
Fraser Macpherson (Today) - From Sheena Wellington:Friends of Wighton, in association with Meadowside St Paul's and supported by Creative Scotland, present: Ivan Drever, singer songwriter7.30pm, Meadowside St Paul's Church, Nethergate, Dundee, Tickets £5, at the door or advance booking - m.adamson@dundee.ac.ukIvan... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Integrating Northern Ireland’s divided society
Slugger O'Toole (Yesterday) - What’s the definition of an integrated society? Since debate over whether integrated education in NI is a good idea invariably unravels as soon as someone attempts to define what it actually means, I’ve canvassed the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - New In Last 24 Hours
- On grandiose claims about self-selecting polls
Scot Goes POP! (Yesterday) - I've got nothing against self-selecting internet polls - I've run a few myself over the years, and they can be quite entertaining if a lot of people take part. But at the end of the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The truth is disgraceful.
Underdogs Bite Upwards (Yesterday) - I don’t see why this interview is labelled as ‘disgraceful’. Seems to me he is right in at least a sense. If we stop imposing our ‘better way’ on other countries they will either stop... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - First Minister's Questions - 23 May 2013 - video
NewsNetScotland (Yesterday) - In keeping with our aim to provide, as often as we can, a full recording of First Minister's Questions, we have uploaded the latest session.Many people are unable to navigate both the Scottish Parliament's own... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›


