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WE GO UNDER COVER TO CHECK OUT THE DOVECLIFF HALL HOTEL AT STRETTON THERE are meals out and there are extra special meals out.
Forget your quick curry, your pub Sunday lunch, your eat-all- youwant for a tenner Chinese buffet, some occasions deserve the very best.
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A CHARITY that helps children and families with autism has been given prestigious Queen's Award For Voluntary Service.
Magic Moments For Autistic Kids (MMAK), which launched eight years ago to offer support, training and for children and families of children with autism was presented with the award yesterday.
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A MARRIED paramedic switched off the tracker in his emergency car so he could meet his lover for secret trysts, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday.
Simon Surplice, 46, also boasted to his mistress - an ambulance service duty manager - that he could 'magic up' life-threatening incidents and pretend to respond to them to help her meet government targets.
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A MARRIED paramedic switched off the tracker in his emergency car so he could meet his lover for secret trysts, a disciplinary hearing was told yesterday.
Simon Surplice, 46, also boasted to his mistress - an ambulance service duty manager - that he could 'magic up' life-threatening incidents and pretend to respond to them to help her meet government targets.
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An "as seen on TV" product is to be launched at the Expowest Cornwall show on Tuesday, aimed at Westcountry firms who want to make headline news.
Truro-based Into3D will be demonstrating its business newscast service Venture Videos, which uses greenscreen magic to showcase companies in the style of the BBC and Sky bulletins.
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A CHARITY is working hard to get more older people using computers.
Age UK Gloucestershire's Magic Mouse service aims to get more silver surfers online but needs volunteers to help with the project.
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TIBCO Software Inc (NasdaqGS: TIBX), an enterprise analytics software provider for next generation business intelligence, revealed on 26 January that in Gartner Inc's recently released Business Intelligence Platforms 2009 Magic Quadrant, the company has been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant. ' The Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms report is available for purchase directly from Gartner. Vendors were evaluated based on their products' vision and ability to execute. The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner Inc and is reused with permission. A graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period, the Magic Quadrant shows Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria as defined b...
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So, how did your journey on the sleeper train go?" a friend enquired. "I don't know - I slept through it all," I replied.
And did you meet anyone famous? I hear that Johnny Depp's supposed to be in the Westcountry doing a film. Maybe he was on the train
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As titles go, The Magic Carpet Flight Manual takes some, er, beating. This BBC World Service programme, however, takes us into the realms of Middle Eastern mythology and quantum physics, as writer and presenter Cathy Fitzgerald recounts how she stumbled upon the website of an Iranian museum featuring an alleged history of the magic carpet and its sundry uses in warfare and as commercial transport, not to mention assisting readers in the famous library at Alexandria reach those pesky top shelves.
Don't scoff yet, though: she also interviews a quantum physicist investigating levitation, as well as a Japanese astronaut who indeed "flew" on a carpet, albeit in orbit. Just don't tell Michael O'Leary.
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TAKE heart all those who clamour for female ordination in the Catholic Church - nuns left us the most vivid memories of Coventry's papal Mass back in May 1982.
After the glories of that service to 250,000 of the faithful, after the magic of seeing John Paul talking to us, after receiving Holy Communion from the hundreds of white-clad priests, after hearing the hymns and the onset of fatigue from our early start, the nuns among us retained their virginal vigou r.