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Great Classic Cars (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The VW Golf GTI has come of age and been recognised as a true classic by the UK’s largest specialist classic car hire company. Great Escape Classic Car Hire has added a 1982 Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk1 1.6 in iconic Mars Red to its fleet. The car is available for self drive hire by the day, weekend or week. The VW Golf GTI invented the idea of a fast, highly entertaining family hatchback. Interest...
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Great Classic Cars (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Great Escape Classic Car Hire has set up a new base in Dorset to enable customers to explore the Jurassic Coast, New Forest and Hampshire behind the wheel of a beautiful classic car. The new branch will initially specialise in British roadsters, but the fleet will develop over the next few months. The new location in Christchurch is within easy travelling time from London, Bath and Reading and convenient...
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upside down in cloud (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In October 1996, Weymouth Bay was home to a fleet of ramshackle Russian factory ships, and Weymouth harbour was crowded with fishing boats, a large proportion of which came from the Scottish east coast. The fishing boats offloaded their catch onto the factory ships. The Scottish trawlermen introduced Irn Bru to various Weymouth bars, not least of which being The Moorings, where we ferry people used...
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Plymothian Transit (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
"yesterday 12:00 was the deadline for bids for Plymouth Citybus” Ian Kirby Flickr IoW Sparky Flickr Omnibuses2.0 Route One Dorset Sprinter Bankfoot Banged Leon Daniels Advertising Pays It remains to be seen if and when we get an official announcement from the City Council, but yesterday 12:00 was the deadline for bids for Plymouth Citybus. It is widely expected that the two final bids will...
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Logan Michael James (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Saturday night and we are back at home after a couple of days 'on the road' down to Dorset and Weston-super-Mare. For the first time for a few days Logan has got a bit of his appetite back although he is still proving hard work at mealtimes. He is also far more grizzy, clingy and prone to bouts of unusual crying than he ever has been in his young life. Becky has been a bit paranoid about his distressed...
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Sparkling News (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
We have now teamed up with a Specialist External Cleaning Company who operate from Bournemouth and Southampton and from these bases cover the counties of Dorset and Hampshire. The Cleaning Services Group Ltd can now offer a full range of External Cleaning Services including Decking Cleaning, Patio and Drive Cleaning, Cladding Cleaning, Brick Cleaning and Gutter Cleaning. The Specialist Company we have...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
It's good news that President Obama has kicked back the Pentagon's "timid" proposals for a new nuclear posture review in favour of a radical rewrite ( Barack Obama ready to slash US nuclear arsenal , 21 September). Breaking out of the "more of the same" approach is key to making progress towards abolition. It was disappointing, then, to read David Miliband's comments, pushing attention...
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SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 17/08/2009
Tickets for The End of the Road Festival 2009 have completely sold out. With just under a month to go, all of the tickets have been snapped up for the three-day event at Larmer Tree Gardens in Dorset – the second year in a row that this has happened. Taking place from 11 – 13 September at the Larmer Tree Gardens in North Dorset, the festival’s headliners are Fleet Foxes, The Hold...
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Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Defence minister Quentin Davies has admitted that RAF search and rescue services will only be available for 12 hours in some parts of the country from 2012. The Ministry of Defence is planning to cut the service at RMB Chivenor in Dorset, RAF Boulmer in Northumberland and Portland in Dorset. Two of them would reduce from 24 to 12-hour cover, Portland is already a daylight-only site. In a letter to...
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Motoring News (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Short-term vehicle lease company FlexxiLease, which has a fleet of 4,000 vehicles, has stopped taking on any new business with immediate effect. A spokesman for the Dorset-based company, which trades alongside its sister companies FlexxiVan, FlexxiPartner and Car and Commercial all brands of the One Stop Car Shop (OSCS) and part of the Car [...]
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Military Police Association - Isle of Man Sub Group (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009
There are more British helicopters in Hampshire than Helmand, with 27 of the in-demand twin-rotored Chinooks based near a market town in the heart of the English countryside. The contrast between the leafy terrain surrounding Odiham and the extreme heat and dust of Helmand is so marked that when air crews begin training on Chinooks bound for southern Afghanistan they have to start all over again when...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
NEW YORK, July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Volvo Car Corporation has chosen advanced, American-made lithium-ion battery systems designed and produced by Ener1, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) to power a pair of plug-in hybrid V70 demonstration cars being put through their paces across Europe this fall as part of a rigorous development program leading up to the planned 2012 commercial launch of a production plug-in...
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SouthAfrica.info RSS feed (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
Motorists in South Africa are now able to conveniently pay for fuel with their credit, debit, cheque, garage, fleet and petrol cards. Not all garages will immediately be able to accept every form of payment as yet, however, and those owners are being urged to prominently display a notice to that effect.
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Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
The Portsmouth, Va.,-based U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare sails past Naval Station Norfolk, July 1, en route western and central Africa. Under the direction of the commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa, Legare will support the Navy's 6th Fleet by...
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Karmabanque Radio (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
Stacy Summary: Interesting to look at the debate of contractual obligations as related to FIRE workers at an insolvent company that is ‘too big to fail.’ I’m sure also it doesn’t hurt that AIG maintained a massive fleet of lobbyists that insured they would always be too big to jeopardize obligations to [...]
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