Pudsey singer to bring curtain down at Leeds City Varieties
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 15, 2008
Pudsey’s Lawrie Briggs has played Leeds City Varieties so often she is almost part of its fixtures and fittings.
Now the popular performer says she is proud to be singing at the former music hall for one last time before its multi-million pound refurbishment.
Her Varieties history dates back more than 20 years to when she appeared [...]
K Panels sips sustainable success
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on April 6, 2008
Whats in a name? Well, in the case of K Panels, it means a company that is contributing towards meeting the demand for more affordable housing and making them zero carbon too
The story began well before the Code for Sustainable Homes was a priority on the Governments agenda, in Sherwood Forest, the home [...]
Ideas Part 1: The story of Guantanamo’s child
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on March 9, 2008
The Pentagon has charged Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr with war crimes, including murder in the death of U.S. Delta Force soldier Christopher Speer. Next week he will have another pre-trial hearing at the U.S. navy base in southeast Cuba. Toronto-born Khadr was 15 when he was shot and captured in Afghanistan and the United [...]
World Making Gitmo sound good
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 15, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAYæŠor Lt.-Col. Ed Bush and his team of public-affairs officers, their role in the so-called war on terror is a war on words. Each week, they escort journalists, dignitaries and international observers through the world’s most famous American naval base here on Cuba’s southeast coast. It’s not an easy job. There really aren’t [...]
on yer bike!
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 18, 2008
When a young child told Doncaster man Jim Tierney he didnt have a bike it set Jim off on an award winning journey.
Jim, who lives in Denaby, South Yorkshire, and is chairman of the Craganour Tenants and Residents Association (TARA), collected bits of old bikes to make one for this child.
It all started about [...]
German death strip starts fresh life as a nature sanctuary
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2007
The huge stretch of the Iron Curtain that separated East and West Germany for four decades is to become a nature reserve.
The inner German border, as it was known, abounded with movement sensors, minefields, dog patrols and watch-towers all wrapped up in seemingly endless thick fencing.
Around 38,000 border guards, roughly one for each 40 yards, [...]
Curt Flood Is Dead at 59; Outfielder Defied Baseball
Filed Under Curt Flood | Posted on December 14, 2007
Curt Flood, the All-Star center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1960’s who became a pioneering figure in the legal attack on baseball’s reserve clause that foreshadowed the era of free agents, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 59.
Flood died at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where he had been a patient in [...]
Steve Austin is scheduled to start filming his second picture
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on December 10, 2007
Hulk Hogan is scheduled to be on today edition of Access Hollywood talking about his divorce from his wife Linda. If anyone catches it please send me a report.
RJ Gab sent this in: I just turned the channel to VH1 and what do you know? I heard the name Vincent Kennedy McMahon. He was [...]