Neil Waugh Outdoors: The Union Jack Bandits

A mellow corner of West Central Alberta’s Dogpound Creek. Neil Waugh/Edmonton Sun Edmonton By NEIL WAUGH On the afternoon of Aug 23, 1886 — at precisely 12:45 p.m. — the Calgary-to-Edmonton stagecoach was pulling out of the coulee named for a frontier rounder called Addy McPherson in the vicinity of …

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Props away at Mount Pleasant

Fifteen MP250 props supported the excavation Main contractor Bouygues UK is constructing a new 214-apartment complex – called Postmark – for Taylor Wimpey at the former sorting office site in central London. Specialist contractor Keltbray dug out the basement hole as part of the £100m first phase of the development …

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The Top 10: Things that are not ‘the’

This list was suggested by Dean Bullen, after a pedant pointed out that the metal-detecting TV series is Detectorists, not The Detectorists. Just as it is Bodyguard (thanks to Andrew Raeburn). I have done countries that used to be “the” (Netherlands, Ukraine and so on) but here are 10 other things.  …

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