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Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | yesterday
Spoon have announced the initial dates for their forthcoming tour in support of their latest album, ‘ Transference ‘, due out early next year. The band will be bringing ‘ Transference ‘ to the U.S. and Europe with the first tour date kicking off December 3 in Kansas City. Among the dates announced are shows in Boston, Portland, Manchester, and London, with several more dates...
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Inpspectors concerned for safety of bridges after policeman's death as search under way for woman swept away in Wales An urgent investigation into the safety of all 1,800 bridges in Cumbria is under way today after the heaviest rainfall since records began swept several people away and claimed the life of a policeman. People in Cumbria were advised not to return to their homes, as forecasters predicted...
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mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Spoon has a new album coming out soon ( Transference ) and they’ve already started plotting out a path to support it. Here are the first tour dates of the tour and if you don’t see your city on the list I’m sure you’ll get hit on the second announce. No band only plays 11 dates to support an album. Spoon: 12-03 Kansas City, MO - Midland Theatre 12-04 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre...
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Four bridges collapse, main roads are blocked and hundreds are evacuated as 12 inches of rain falls in Cumbria in 24 hours A policeman swept away and killed during the devastating flooding that hit north-west England was trying to save lives by directing motorists off a bridge across a swollen river. PC Bill Barker, who would have been 45tomorrow , was praised by Gordon Brown as a "very heroic,...
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kingblind (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Hitting the U.S. and Europe in coming months Spoon's next album, Transference, is due January 25 in Europe via Anti- and January 26 in North America via Merge. And in the coming months, lucky folks in the U.S. and Europe will get a chance to hear Spoon play some of these songs live. Spoon's catalog of spiky new wave jams is already pretty huge, and they've always been totally smooth and on-point onstage,...
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The Northumberland Naturalist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In the second of two pieces about my recent trip to Scotland, I have a little of the highland countryside to share with you. The day following the visit to Chanonry Point was devoted to a drive into Glen Elg. The weather was much less reliable than it had been the day before and the first stop of the day, to take in the Map of Scotland view at the western end of Loch Garry, was rather overcast ...
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Flickr Scotland (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Views from the Isle of Arran (Still enjoying our holidays) , originally uploaded by PeterandJaneBurns . "Captured whilst waiting for the ferry back to the mainland. Brodick bay, Arran, Scotland."
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Exposing Islam. (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
An Al Qaeda terrorist serving a life sentence for his part in planning a fertiliser bomb attack on mainland Britain is suing security services and the Government for up to £50,000 over claims he was tortured in Pakistan . Salahuddin Amin, 34, from Luton, Bedfordshire, has issued a High Court writ against MI5 chief Jonathan Evans, the incoming head of MI6 Sir John Sawers, the Home Office, the...
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Nominated for a Luxist Award in the Best Caviar Retailer category is Caviar House & Prunier. The Geneva-based company is one of the the world's largest importers and distributors of fine caviar from the Caspian Sea. It is actually two companies under one roof: Caviar House being one and Prunier being the other. Both companies are now called Caviar House & Prunier . The company is known for...
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thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Some of you will beaware of the Uist Wader Project. This project is to protect wading birds on Uist, the hedgehog was introduced some years ago to the islands and it was blamed for eating the eggs of waders. The hogs were being systematically culled until a campaign to save them. Since then hogs have been captured and released on the mainland. North Uist was thought to be free of hedgehogs but then...
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SUBROSA (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
RSA is Regional Selective Assistance which offers taxpayers' money to certain areas of Scotland which have been designated Assisted Areas. Like all business who met the criteria, Diageo applied in 1999 for a grant and received £1m towards the expansion of its Kilmarnock plant - which is now to close with the loss of 700 jobs. Then in November 2001 the then labour/libdem Scottish government awarded...
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Fashionista.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
There are many reasons we really want to go to Art Basel in Miami. From (of course) the art to the beyond chic crowd and parties. And just the general fun one can have in sunny Miami because you know, "Miami, Miami, you've got style. Blue skies, sunshine, white sand by the mile..." (If you get that reference, we're pretty much automatically friends.) But I digress. We just learned about...
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The Chuck Cowdery Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I had lunch today with Steve Cole, Whiskey Professor. Cole is quick to admit that "whiskey professor" is a marketing term. He doesn't have a PhD in Whiskey nor is he tenured faculty at Whiskey U. He is an employee of Beam Global and his job is more generically known in the industry as brand ambassador. Beam chose the whiskey professor title, according to Cole, because his job is education,...
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And another thing... (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
MAN OF the people, that’s Scotland’s First Minister. But only if by “the people” you mean his personal dentist and the owner of his favourite restaurant, both of whom have been wined and dined by Eck at the public’s great expense. The Herald’s Tom Gordon dishes the dirt here.
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Pyatshaw Papillons (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Kelso , in the Borders, is unique, in Scotland, in having a French-style, cobbled town square fed by four cobbled streets...a minefield for wearers of high-heeled shoes to traverse! When I was first married, well over 40 years ago, we lived fairly close to here and did our banking in the town. Then, when driving across the square, everyone took their own route and at times it could resemble "dodgems"...
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