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Recently there has been a clamp down on cyclists riding on footpaths and having no lights after dark. These practices are obviously an unwanted danger to pedestrians, particularly older people and those who are unable to jump out of the way. At night they add to the hazards of driving any kind of vehicle when, […]
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Every day there is more and more evidence that ordinary folk are suffering under the social demands of modern living. It is even more difficult for them if they have children. The pressure they are under from every source prevents them from living their lives as they would like to, and many are asking how […]
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Reports are regularly appearing in the media about the child labour being used in the Third World and elsewhere to produce cheap goods to be sold in our supermarkets and stores. Some of our biggest companies are moving major operations thousands of miles away to benefit from the low running costs and wages. They are […]
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Binge drinking has become a favourite pastime for some of our young people who are encouraged by the daily reports of the actions of their current pop idols. Consequently, drinking habits and alcohol abuse have had a lot of attention from the media lately. The extended licensing hours might have something to do with it […]
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NHS Employers that represent Trusts have announced they have twenty three thousand applications for training places from junior doctors. The public might feel quite pleased about this until they recall that not long ago there were serious concerns about the shortage of doctors in the NHS that was solved by filling the vacancies from overseas. […]
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Since the National Lottery was introduced there seems to have been more and more begging letters coming through our letterboxes. They are very adept in their approach. Some enclose half a dozen greetings cards or a sheet of stickers with your name and address printed on them to make you feel they should be reimbursed. […]
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Health & Wellbeing / Then & Now / valley lad memories November 18, 2007
Very recently a class of schoolchildren were asked to prepare a presentation to others in the same year. Rebecca Craft [aged 15] from North Wales selected smoking as her subject. Such a detailed and explicit review ought not be confined to just one year’s students. It has a message for everyone. The only way it […]
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Over recent years a great deal of attention has been given to the way our young people should be educated. There was the ‘Education, Education, Education!’ promised by the Government that seems to have raised the doubts now being expressed in many quarters. Like most things in life, how any system suits an individual depends […]
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Every Autumn after the holidays, when the time comes for the children to return to school there is always a debate about where parents should shop to purchase their school uniforms. Did You Know? Not long ago it was only children attending Private or Grammar Schools that had to wear uniforms and these were only […]
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Health & Wellbeing / Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley September 8, 2007
Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health Partnershipis planning to become a NHS Foundation Trust and needs to recruit many more members. Did You Know? It costs you nothing to join and puts you under no obligation. You can get as involved as you wish. If you just want to be sent information and have a vote […]
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After so much publicity and dissent we no longer hear of the Government’s plans to issue everyone with an identity card. All kinds of objections were raised with the strongest being the infringement of people’s privacy. Did You Know? In 1939 it was not for discussion. There were no objections when every British Citizen was […]
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The word progress is defined in the dictionary as a forward movement, an advance to something better or higher in development. All through the ages since the world began Evolution has gradually changed it to create different environments right up to the present one which accommodated all kinds of life including Homo sapiens. During the […]
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Some of our most popular holiday resorts who have suffered from a decline in business over the last few years are to be allowed to open Casinos and replicate Las Vegas. Did You Know? There was a time when the only legal way to place any kind of bet was with a Bookmaker or the […]
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Every day the Government, the Media or some other body of experts tell us what we should or shouldn’t do with our lives. How we must stop smoking, exercise at least twice a week to keep fit, eat little and often and consume only the most nourishing fat free fresh food and drink. We are […]
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As we accumulate more and more refuse to be collected and disposed of every week our household waste is becoming an ever increasing problem. Environmentalists say it is essential we sort our rubbish carefully and recycle everything we can to help preserve the natural world.
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Then & Now / valley lad memories / Waveney Valley May 23, 2007
In Towns and small Villages all over the Country Post Offices are being closed inflicting yet another problem on our aged and disabled population. Since the Supermarkets opened, lack of support has forced the small General Stores who ran them to close. This was where OAP’s collected their pensions etc. and met their neighbours for […]