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- I was listening to the ‘Today’ programme on the radio and decided on a sudden whim to turn it off the next time someone used the pseudo-adjective ‘challenging’. Within five seconds my finger hit the off button and yet another interminable discussion was replaced by silence. In the last decade words like ‘difficult’, ‘impossible’, ‘awkward’...The Way I See It: Why are we all so challenged?
- This popular annual event is promoted by the Wildlife Trust and is the perfect opportunity for all nature lovers to gather at dawn to enjoy the song of their local birds. Nowadays Dawn Chorus Day is celebrated in more than 80 countries, and even in parts of Antarctica and the Caribbean. For details of how...International Dawn Chorus Day 2019 – 5th May
- This fortnight is the Fostering network’s annual big push to raise the profile of fostering, and to show how foster care can transform children’s lives. It also serves as the UK’s biggest foster carer recruitment campaign. The need is huge: thousands of new foster families are needed every year to care for children in need. ...Foster Care Fortnight 13th to 26th May
- If you can’t make an appointment, do you warn your surgery? Too many of us forget to do so: missed appointments with our GPs cost £216million a year – the equivalent of 2,325 full-time family doctors. No wonder that NHS England is urging people to cancel rather than simply not show up. Sadly, more than...Missed appointments with your GP
- When you drive, are you often swerving to avoid potholes? You are not alone. And the outlook is not good: more than 40,000 miles of Britain’s road are at risk of crumbling within five years, a major potholes survey has found. Council figures show that a fifth of the country’s roads are in ‘poor condition’. ...Potholes galore
- All in the month of APRIL The mysterious, tragic death of Jill Dando Happy Birthday, Manchester City! The extraordinary success of Robinson Crusoe Where did the Easter Bunny and Easter eggs come from? Easter trivia quiz Old as taxes ** Editor: We continue our column that looks at memorable dates in the month (this time,...Looking at your Community (all articles) for April 2019
- It was: 300 years ago, on 25th April 1719 that Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was published. 125 years ago, on 16th April 1894 that Manchester City Football Club was founded. It was a reorganisation of a church team that was established in 1880, initially as St Mark’s (West Gorton), and, from 1887, Ardwick Association...All in the month of APRIL
- Jill Dando, a popular TV presenter, newsreader, journalist and Crimewatch reporter, was shot dead on the doorstep of her house in Fulham 20 years ago this month, on 26th April 1999. It is still a mystery who killed her. Jill had been brought up as a Baptist, and her funeral took place at Clarence Park...The mysterious, tragic death of Jill Dando
- Manchester City Football Club, top of the pile in the Premier League last season and now in the running for more honours, was founded 125 years ago, on 16th April 1894 – as a reorganised church team. The original church team was established in 1880, initially by two churchwardens at St Mark’s (West Gorton), as...Happy Birthday, Manchester City!
- It was 300 years ago, on 25th April 1719, that Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was first published. The book is believed to be second only to the Bible in the number of translations made. The author was born Daniel Foe in London in 1860 and added the De to his name when he was...The extraordinary success of Robinson Crusoe
- The Easter bunny is a gentle figure of folklore, who seems to have first come from the German Lutherans. They depicted him as a rabbit who brought coloured Easter eggs to children. The idea of an egg-giving hare went over to the US in the 18th century, when Protestant German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch...Where did the Easter Bunny and Easter eggs come from?
- What was the largest ever Easter egg hunt? The most-ever entrants for an egg hunt competition was 12,773. It was The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt, as part of World Record London, in London, UK in April 2012. What was the largest-ever decorated Easter egg? This was built in March 2008, by Freeport in Alcochete, Portugal. ...Easter trivia quiz