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Entries from August 15th, 2006

Disaster Strikes

August 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life

Five days before the start of the football season and our star striker goes and breaks an ankle while training for tomorrow’s England friendly! Still, looking on the bright side, that still leaves us with more strikers than Sven took with him to Germany.

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Its gun control – but not as we know it

August 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life

Over in Dallas, Texas there is a crime problem. Apparently it is the most dangerous city in the US with murders at a level four times as high as the average for the US. But the council has a cunning plan: as the article says “alarmed by rising gun crime in Dallas… …councillors have advanced […]

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The Langdon Players

August 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments · Life

The Langdon Players were an amateur dramatics group which was active in Laindon, Essex in the 1950s/1960s. I don’t know when they started up although I believe they were around in the 1930s and I am not sure when they disappeared. All I do know is that several people who were involved in The Langdon […]

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