ON TUESDAY I was in Swindon for a family funeral. I’d only met my great aunt Betty once, in the year 2000 when I was studying journalism at Cardiff University, but I remember her being great fun; feeding me and helping me identify a pile of old family photographs I’d come across while researching my ...
THE SCOTTISH Government repeatedly tells us that it wants to create “a more successful country with opportunities for all” through “increasing sustainable economic growth”. These actual words come from a follow-up document on the proposed Community Empowerment and Renewal Bill to be debated this summer. They relate specifically to a new consultation underway on legislation ...
Mathematics, they say, is an exact science. With that claim I cannot argue, although I must confess, to me it is more of an exact mystery. I am, to the precise skill of numerical calculation what Eddie the Eagle was to the sport of ski-jumping. The fact that I passed all the requisite maths exams ...
I'M SURE you’re all pleased to hear that I start my new job next week. I have all the feelings that take me back to my first day at school. Excited, scared, nervous – and happy to get away from day time TV.
It took a lot of phone calls, but I snagged myself ...
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