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Get your red pens out now…
Richard and Judy Summer reads – read extracts of all them Free: “False Impression is Jeffrey Archer’s latest pacy thriller that no fan should miss and you can win one of five uncorrected proofs.” Presumably there’s a prize of a book by a real author if you do all the corrections…
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Health and Safety
BBC NEWS | England | Manchester | 21 rescued after floor collapses They should have done a risk assessment first…
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Ties that bind
BBC NEWS | Health | Doctor ties ‘to go in MRSA fight’So all doctors are men, apparently?
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Bloody Hell!
This is another of Owen Barder’s fantastic spoofs – trouble is, they are getting ever closer to reality. I think we are arriving at a point where the government will be beyond parody…
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Trouble at t’Mill
BBC NEWS | Education | Academics vote for strike action Well, it had to happen. Don’t you think Jocelyn Prudence is the perfect name for the employers’ negotiator?
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Intute indeed…
Just had an email from the RDN – Resource Discovery Network – a name which means what it says. It’s a network by which you can discover resources. That isn’t good enough, though. Oh, no. They are going to change the name. So here’s the reasoning behind it:The RDN has taken specialist advice and, with…
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Cut ‘n’ paste
I’m currently dealing with a plagiarism case where a student has copied all of two pieces of work – and, rather cunningly, I thought, used books not easily available physically or as e-books, but ones which feature whole pages on Google book search and Amazon “Look inside”. The student can’t actually cut and paste, but…
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A Big Ask…
According to BBC Sport, “Wayne Rooney has agreed a five-book deal that will earn him at least £5m from publishers Harper Collins” It’s a lot to ask of the lad, but I’m sure with Coleen’s help, he’ll manage to read those five books in time to collect the money. I think they should make sure…
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Simply yuk!
I always disliked Mick Hucknall. Something to do with the hair and the support for that Stretford team, I expect. Now the Observer’s profile of him confirms that, as I suspected all along, I was right. He says things like “I am one of the best singer-songwriters this country has produced. Ever. If people don’t…
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It’s a Wrap
The Observer | Magazine | One family, one month, 50kg of packaging. Why? This article illustrates the problem I mentioned some time ago – and it’s a problem that won’t go away until we make the manufacturers do something about it. I like the idea, mentioned in the article, of a co-ordinated dumping of packaging…