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30 great New Year jokes and quotes With no parties to go to or extended family to see, New Year will be quieter this year. At least we can still have a chuckle Renée Zellweger in Bridget Joness Diary Credit: Film Stills Mark Twain (1835-1910), author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawer, in a letter to Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in January 1863 “New Years Day: now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual ...

BUSINESS in the House of Commons on Tuesday included topical questions to the Home Secretary, and one of the questions posed was both interesting and timely, but also arrogant, because it came from a Scottish Conservative MP (John Lamont). This MP was seeking an update to the Seasonal Workers Scheme (allowing migrant workers to get a visa to work in UK) for 2021. The scheme has huge implications for the agricultural and hospitality sector. Timely, I’ll say, with Brexit looming. The unce...

From trips to the dentist to vaccinations, injections are a mainstay of modern medicine. And, while its fair to say few of us really like them, the mere thought of a needle is enough to make some pass out. Up to 10 per cent of the UK population has a needle phobia and, with the biggest vaccination programme in Britains history under way — in which at least 30 million adults are due to be offered two shots of the coronavirus vaccine — millions of trypanophobics, as needle phobia is known, co...

Newby: Can music help revitalize a community? Huron Daily Tribune FacebookTwitterEmail John Newby Andre Gide once said, “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” We have written about arts and entertainment and how they can help to transform a community. This week, we will narrow that focus a bit drawing on the power of music. I recently read an article by Jeffrey A. Harris titled “Preserving the Sites of American Music”. While reading this ...