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Bell End (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
So I’d now got to the stage where I’d pulled in some postcode data into SQL Server, got the county boundaries for one county (the mighty Lancashire) and figured out how to do a spatial query to tell me which postcodes were in that county. Now I wanted to display those postcodes on a map. So time to turn to Google Maps and Visual Studio. First I created a simple generic handler in C# that...
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tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Blackburn midfielder Steven Reid is set to join Queens Park Rangers on loan, BBC Radio Lancashire reports. read more
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Preston Writing Network (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This week sees the launch of Preston Writing Network's shiny-new adventure in multimedia webtertainment. We've set up our very own youtube channel called Lancashire Writing Hub, where the writerly folk of Ribbleland can have their performances captured for the grateful benefit of posterity. We've already uploaded some archive clips from Word Soup on Tour and Word Soup 6 so it's far from an empty jam-jar....
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A room of my own....... (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
When I was a girl, growing up in a small town in Lancashire, I was used to the sights and sounds of an industrial landscape. From my bedroom window, I could see a woollen-spinning mill complete with tall, mill chimney and the sound of churning machinery. On days when the industrial process began, the smell from the extraction of lanolin from the wool was appalling! This was just part of life... the...
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The Stage (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Wilton's Music Hall, London: Dateline: Burnley, Lancashire, 2007-08. Read the full review
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Big Brother Watch (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Over at the Daily Mail, you can read about some silly man in Lancashire whose organisation is (at public expense) pumping out cards to tell carol singers to push off in case they upset "vulnerable people". This is preposterous. People have been singing carols in an unchanged tradition for hundreds of years in this country without any problems. Are we really supposed to think that this Lancashire...
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I just noticed a piece in the Telegraph regarding yellow postcard sized signs, which are being handed out to folks in Lancashire which read: “Sorry no carol singers, I won’t open my door to you.” But it was the sub-headline that caught my attention:- They bring a message of “peace on Earth and goodwill to [...]
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WELCOME TO THE WESHAM FORUM 2009 (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Wesham Pays its' Respects Wesham's Community attended in large numbers at the Remembrance Day Service .Wreaths were layed by the following organisations:-Medlar-with-Wesham Town Council; Fylde Borough Council; St Joseph's Catholic Church; The Armed Forces; Christ Church Wesham;Lancashire Constabulary;St John Ambulance;The Scout Association;Th e Guide Association;St Joseph's Catholic Primary School;...
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The Marple Leaf (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I went to speak to the journalism undergraduates and postgraduates at the University of Central Lancashire this week. They were a very bright crop this year. Very attentive and asked some smart questions. There are fewer opportunities in magazines now, but at it's heart it is a young person's industry. Some of their course projects have a well thought through digital element too. But as you absorb...
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Everything And Nothing (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
“It’s not part of your uniform” the employer said “I am not taking it off” said the employee “Then it’s a disciplinary matter” replied the employer “Do it” said the employee who then reported it to the press. Now the employer has changed their policy and employees are allowed to wear remembrance poppies at work. I bent the rules today - this...
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Spinner : The five-piece pub band, from Burnley in Lancashire, usually play gigs to crowds of no more than 50, got together only a year ago and have yet to be signed. But they’ve picked up two nominations for the 2010 Grammy Awards, the Sun has reported, even though the nominations aren’t officially announced until Dec. 2. They were apparently nominated after friends sent their demo tape...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
• Accrington had seemed on brink of going out of business • New non-executive chairman and president appointed Accrington Stanley's future has been assured after they avoided a winding-up order by paying off a £308,000 debt to HM Revenue and Customs. The news follows a restructuring at the League Two club, who had looked to be on the brink of going out of business as they prepared...
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Switched (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
So here's an interesting mystery. How did a town that doesn't exist in reality find itself nestled in an empty green field between two actually real towns in Lancashire, U.K. on Google Maps ? Theories are plentiful, but is seems no one knows the true origins of Argleton -- the town that wasn't there. If you search Google for Argleton, U.K. you'll turn up plenty of results for businesses, real estate,...
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Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Mysterious "Argleton" stumps online giant and Tele Atlas The presence of a mysterious town on Google Maps has stumped locals, the online giant and its mapping data provider. It seems no-one can explain why "Argleton" in Lancashire, a town that does not exist, appears in the L39 postcode area just south of Ormskirk. According to locals, where Argleton should be is just "acres...
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Moonshot and beyond (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
I've been a long time supporter of Fair Trade and Trade Aid and I've noticed that much more companies and businesses are now working to give the workers who produce much of our coffee and chocolate a fair deal. Take coffee: Fair Trade coffee was once only available at Trade Aid shops, then came Hummingbird Organic coffee and now Caffe L'affare 's Primo beans are now Fair Trade. According to Oxfam,...
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