Even Winston Churchill was impressed by two-year-old Lilibet, as her family called Princess Elizabeth. On a visit to Balmoral in 1928, he wrote to his wife Clemmie: ‘She has an air of authority & reflectiveness astonishing in an infant.’ Granted, the constant company of doting adults encouraged a certain guileless …
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Harold Elfring, technology and IT systems director at unit load device (ULD) manufacturer ACL Airshop, has joined the speaker faculty for the inaugural Air Cargo Tech Summit in Miami for the panel discussion, “Staying secure: Advances in ULDs and cargo restraint techniques and technologies,” Tuesday, June 7, at 3:30 p.m. …
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At least nine of the 10 main recommendations of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report have not been implemented according to the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action (ELCA). ELCA claim the federal government has failed to implement 90 per cent of the recommendations of the commission, leaving …
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These amazing pictures show two Royal Air Force Hercules aircraft flying over the skies of Oxfordshire. On May 5, the C-130J Hercules aircraft departed RAF Brize Norton in West Oxfordshire as they flew on a formation sortie across the South West of England. After departing Brize Norton and flying at low altitude …
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A wool sculpture of Prince Charles by Manitoban artist Rosemarie Péloquin.Valerie Wilcox/The Canadian Press The Prince of Wales is set to be greeted by a sheepish figure when he arrives in Canada on Tuesday: his own “woolly doppelganger.” Prince Charles will lock eyes with a life-size, hand-needle-felted bust of his …
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THE cost of a botched by-election has spiralled to more than £22,000, Renfrewshire Council has confirmed. Local authority chiefs had to scrap the poll in the Paisley Southeast ward in November when it emerged that former councillor Paul Mack had lodged another appeal against his disqualification. They were waiting on a …
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Recovery Operations Although St. John’s, Newfoundland, was closer to the site of Titanic’s sinking, White Star Line officials decided to mount the recovery operation from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Unlike St. John’s, which was difficult to reach, Halifax had rail connections to the major cities of eastern North America, making it …
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Sky has commissioned six new documentaries in an exciting move to give viewers more factual content. The leading media and entertainment company has revealed that the six new titles will be available across Sky Documentaries, Sky Crime, Sky Nature and Sky HISTORY. You will also be able to catch the new documentaries …
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News A series of strikes and ballots over pay and other issues Downloading PDF. Please wait… Monday 16 May 2022 Issue 2805 Workers have fought off fire and rehire that hit pay and conditions Leisure workers in Sandwell, West Midlands, are celebrating a victory this week. Their employer, the Sandwell Leisure …
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It appears that spring/summer of 2022 will be the season of the Dad film, and that’s all right (I’m a dad after all). While Top Gun: Maverick will be sucking the oxygen out of the film world later this month, this month we also got a perfectly lovable World War …
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