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Andrew Reeves' running blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
53 Threshers shops out of the 219 across Scotland are now to close down. There will be 373 closures across the UK out of a total of 1,300 shops which will affect all of First Quench's brands including Threshers, Wine Rack, Haddows, Bottoms Up and Victoria Wine. As most people know the parent company, First Quench went into administration just last month and have appointed KPMG as their administrator,...
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Taking Stock (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
With 117 cattle entered in to the Aberdeen Angus English National Calf Show at Agri-Expo it was a tough call for judge, Alastair Fraser, Forfar, Angus. Taking the top spot was Balmachie Black Bear from the John Lascalles. This...
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Angus Crafts Association - Brian's Blog (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Good grief it's been nearly two months since I reported back. So much has happened that I've forgotten most of it. Yesterday, which I can remember some of, took me to the David Lloyd Tennis Centre near the Ashludie roundabout, where I spoke to a roomful of Enterprise Coordinators from Angus Cooncil. They were actually teachers charged with encouraging enterprise education and Determined to Succeed....
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Caroline at Coastcard (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Blend in with the trees Make use of their breadth Think wild... from Save the trees (or else) - by Rachel Fox Fellow poet, Rachel Fox , and I have been swapping our poetic/photographic/poetic greetings cards. Rachel sent me a set of her ten poetic postcards in exchange for a (rather eclectic) selection of my Coastcard items. It was Rachel's idea, and we both felt that it would be an interesting and...
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electrichalibut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
As so often with BBC4 you drop in just for a second and end up catching something really interesting. Tonight I dropped in just to catch the last five minutes or so of Nicholas Crane's programme about Sir Hugh Munro and his mountain-cataloguing activities - inspiration for countless hillwalkers who've followed in his footsteps, myself included of course . That was followed by the always entertaining...
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
HUNDREDS of mourners gathered today for the funeral of an apprentice jockey who died in a suspected arson attack. Jan Wilson, 19, from Forfar, Angus, died with fellow apprentice jockey Jamie Kyne, 18, when fire ripped through a flats complex in Norton, near Malton, North Yorkshire, in the early hours of September 5. More than 250 people attended the funeral service in Lowson Memorial Parish Church...
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AYRSHIRE GOLF (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
The 2009 NAC Scottish Club Championship event will be held at Prestwick St. Nichols Golf Club on Sunday 27th September. 16 clubs, representing each of the 16 SGU Area Associations, will contest the Scottish title and the winners will progress to represent Scotland in the European Club Championship at Klassis Golf & Country Club in Turkey from 22nd to 24th October 2009. Prestwick Golf Club, who...
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Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
Angus Council, Scotland is the first authority to put its burial records online. More than 200,000 burial records, dating from the 1800s, are being published online for the first time. Angus Council said the service would offer a portal to the county's past and give people the chance to discover more about their ancestry. Deceased Online has digitized the burial records of all the lairs in 71 cemeteries...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/09/2009
• Hundreds of mourners pay respects at funeral • Piper plays on roof of stand at Ayr A funeral mass was held in Malton yesterday for Jamie Kyne, one of two young apprentice jockeys killed in a fire in the North Yorkshire village in the early hours of 5 September. The 18-year-old, who was from Ireland, died along with his fellow jockey, Jan Wilson, who was 19 and from Forfar in Scotland....
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Barry Robson Racing (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Hundreds of mourners packed St Leonard and St Mary's Roman Catholic church in Malton, North Yorkshire, for the funeral mass of the young apprentice who was killed in a suspected arson attack. The 18-year-old died when fire ripped through a flats complex in Norton, near Malton, in the early hours of September 5. Kyne died with fellow apprentice jockey Jan Wilson, 19, from Forfar, in Scotland. Father...
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The Wire (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The Press and Journal newspaper in Scotland, published by Aberdeen Journals Limited, is seeking a senior reporter to be based at its office in Forfar, in the heart of Angus. Closing date: 18 September. The South Wales Evening Post, a part of Northcliffe Media, is looking for a court reporter who will cover Swansea’s magistrates courts [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Families pay tribute to teenagers Jamie Kyne and Jan Wilson who died when blaze ripped through building The family of a young jockey who died in a suspected arson attack has said his dream was to be the "next Frankie Dettori". Jamie Kyne, 18, from Ireland, was killed along with fellow jockey Jan Wilson, 19, from Forfar in Scotland, when fire ripped through flats in Norton, near Malton, North...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
The family of a young jockey who died with another apprentice in a suspected arson attack have paid tribute to him as a "very brave lad" with great potential. Irish-born Jamie Kyne, who was 18, and 19-year-old Jan Wilson, from Scotland, died in a fire at a block of flats in Norton, near Malton, North Yorkshire, in the early hours of Saturday. Two others were treated in hospital following...
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swpp and bppa (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Heather Anderson has become a member of the SWPP and BPPA the largest independent organisations for pro photographers. Find more photographers from Scotland on the SWPP & BPPA web site Heather can be contacted at: 01307 462397 8/25/2009