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Litter bugs found with fast food !
I can never understand why people drop or throw litter. It’s one of my pet hates. Our environment is being damaged but also, its just awful to look at. Everywhere you go you see dropped crisp packets and sweet papers and near to fast food takeaways you see half eaten burgers, dropped bags and fast…
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Redundancy – Maybe not the end of life as you know it!
With news everyday of shops and businesses closing and a prediction that unemployment may rise to 3 million I thought that I would share my experience of redundancy with you. For many, redundancy can be unexpected but I suppose that I was lucky in that I knew several months before that my office was going to…
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Atheists drive home message with bus adverts
We British are a strange breed ! We are great at coming up with a campaign such as this one. I can understand why a campaign like this should be run, although I doubt it will have much effect. Disputes about God’s and religion cause so many wars that it makes you wonder whether if…
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Las Vegas – An Interview With The UK Sales & Marketing Manager of The Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Bureau
As a travel agent I love having the opportunity to promote destinations that I really think everybody should visit. One of those destinations is Las Vegas. My first visit to Las Vegas was in November 2007 and it is a place I would love to go back to again. If you are thinking of visiting…
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My Defining Moments of 2008
As 2008 draws to a close nobody can say that this has not been 12 months that has changed the world. The year 2008 was the year of the US elections and the year that the first African-American was elected to become the 44th President of the United States. On 4 November 2008 Barack Obama,…
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Manchester congestion charge driven out of town
I don’t live in Manchester but it was interesting to hear that the residents of Manchester had voted against a charge for using their cars in the city. There were two charging zones proposed. Within the M60 outer ring road and an inner city charging zone. The deal was, as far as I am aware,…
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Is this a cure for being lonely in a hotel room ?
I saw this bit of news in the Sunday Times and I thought it was an interesting way of getting some free publicity for the company involved. 58% of business travellers said their partner or loved-one was the thing they missed most when away from home, a survey has revealed. (I wonder what the other…
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A visit to Scarborough, North Yorkshire
I visited Scarborough last Sunday. Scarborough is a seaside resort on the coast of North Yorkshire. It is said that Scarborough is Britain’s first seaside resort and that visitors started going to Scarborough over 360 years ago. It was a cold day and there was quite a bit of snow on the ground, but despite…
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Beef Curry Recipe – this is the best !
You can’t beat a home made curry. I don’t mean a curry out of a jar but a curry made from the proper spices. Here is a recipe which I think is brilliant and I can recommend that you try it. If you have a slow cooker then great because using a slow cooker really…
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Las Vegas – is there more to it than bright lights ?
I asked my wife if she wanted to go to Las Vegas to celebrate our 25th Wedding Aniversary and she said “Yes”. I didn’t know that much about the place, even though I am a Travel agent, so I don’t know why I suggested Las Vegas, so I started planning the trip. I like big…