Leisure use threatens river - Evening Star
WALKERS with dogs and boats on the river are causing disturbance to birds which could be driving them away from two of the county's internationally-important estuaries. Because of widespread concern over the decline in bird numbers on the Stour and ...

Boyd Tonkin: Memories of the pain in Spain - The Independent
Seventy summers ago, Spain versus Germany meant more than the final of a football tournament. The outcome differed, too. When the forces of the Spanish government made their last-ditch push on the Ebro against Franco's rebels in July 1938, ferocious ...

Your Friday reads - Globe and Mail
The blogosphere is usually described in utopian terms, a kind of "citizen's publishing," the "peoples' medium" where censorship does not exist and all actions are transparent. Which is why the blogosphere was rocked when BoingBoing, one of the most ...

George Orwell and the British pub - Daily Telegraph Blogs
George Orwell's short 1946 article on pubs, The Moon Under Water , has always held a fascination for me. One area of life that has definitely not improved in the last 62 years is the British pub. Wetherspoon even has the cynicism to run a Moon Under ...

Chris Dodd's VIP treatment - Boston Globe
"I'm no clairvoyant. There was no red flag to me that we were getting some special treatment." -Senator Christopher Dodd Poor Chris Dodd can't catch a break this year. Connecticut's senior senator, after an underwhelming presidential campaign - in ...

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