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In time to greet Tall Ships Race contestants is an exhibition of contemporary works by the Shoal of Brixham Artists starting on Friday and continuing over the weekend. It is being held near the waters edge beneath the old Fish Market in Brixham and comprises a group of about ten artists, mostly painters, who have been working through the winter on fresh ideas for the coming season.
After studying art in Torquay, Nicky Stevenson obtained a ceramics degree at Middlesex University before a working life as a prop-maker in Liverpool and Coventry. She ran her own business, The Prop Shop, for a while, supplying various theatre groups which included the hectic world of television but throughout all she has always painted and eventually decided to return home and concentrate wholly on painting.
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IT'S ten years since Darlington Engineering and Cordforth Group came together to form the Cordell Group. In that time the company has continued to grow and now employs more than 600 people.
It has also managed to maintain sales, despite the fact that some of its clients have been badly hit by the recession.
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BIKERS using the legendary Trails in Cleethorpes are gearing themselves up for a more secure future by applying for planning permission to keep the site for another ten years.
Run by youth action group, Giving Young People Opportunities (GYPO), they hope securing a second decade will make it more official and protect it from the threat of demolition.
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WATCHING my husband neil construct a dry-stone wall around our vegetable garden reminded me i had never set foot on the great Wall of china. action was needed. and so we arrived in Shanghai for two nights before flying to Wuhan to join Viking century Sun on a cruise up the mighty Yangtze river.
Dishevelled after a 13-hour flight, we arrived at our hotel to find the entrance locked. Some mistake, surely? We were a group of ten, plus escort, and this was a five-star hotel. it transpired that hillary clinton was about to leave so all entrances bar one were locked.
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AT THE heart of the British Establishment resides a wraithlike American blonde called Barbara Thomas Judge. Lady Judge, a lawyer, has more jobs than seems possible. Name a board and she is on it; find a charity and she will be associated with it.
She is the chairman of both the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and of the School of Oriental And African Studies. She serves as deputy chairman of the huge financial services group Friends Provident and of the corporate governance watchdog the Financial Reporting Council. Plus, she has ten directorships and many more 'affiliations' - some in Hong Kong and America.
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BIRMINGHAM pupils have been given a business masterclass from a star of TV talent hunt The Apprentice. Claire Young, who was a finalist in the race to become Alan Sugar's pounds 100,000-a-year sidekick in 2008, paid a visit to Kings Norton Girls' School as part of a scheme to encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs.
A group of Year ten girls have been taking part in the Tenner Tycoon scheme, which has tasked children across the country with starting their own business using a pounds 10 note.
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UP to 40 posts could go at Derby's Community Safety Partnership as it sees its budget cut by 36%.
The organisation, a partnership of Derby City Council, police, NHS, Derbyshire probation and Derby Homes, was set up in 2003.
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ON A day that saw the Americans suffer a wipeout at the Amateur Championship, how ironic that the three Scots left standing at the last-32 stage at Muirfield are players who have spent productive time at colleges in the United States.
From the group of ten that qualified for the match-play stage, James Byrne, Michael Stewart and Jordan Findlay are all that's remaining of the home contingent, though they all have sound enough credentials to go all the way and become the first Scot to lift this title since Stuart Wilson at St Andrews in 2004.
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HE IS Scotland's most senior judge and more used to presiding over the complexities of the criminal justice system than a rabble of argumentative children.
But Lord Hamilton, the Lord Justice General, is about to take the unprecedented step of flinging open the doors of the Court of Session to a group of ten and 11-year-olds.
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WE FEEL as a group of 14 walkers, who during the past 15 years have walked many routes all over Yorkshire, we need to put the record straight about one of your articles printed recently in the "Pub Food" section of The Guide.
This article was a comparison between the Wrygarth Inn at Great Hatfield and the Stag's Head Inn at Lelley.