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There's something about amphibious vehicles that pushes the boundaries of imagination, allowing people to go wherever they want, whenever they want – be it on land or on water. These "all-terrain vehicles" gained a lot of popularity in the U.S. when they started being mass-produced back in the '70s. One of them particularly stood out as a unique all-terrain wagon powered by a 55-hp Volkswagen heart.

Mackley announced yesterday that the Hythe Ranges Sea Defence scheme has won the EA 2025 Award at the National Agency Awards.

WHAT is beginning to look like the biggest ever static rally against nuclear weapons to be held in Scotland is set for Faslane submarine base on…

Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 4:23 pm The history of Hamilton’s five local hapuu is the inspiration behind spectacular new artwork on the Waikato River. The artwork has been incorporated into the new central city jetty, which is now open for anyone to use, below Waikato Museum. The new jetty is a floating pontoon that can rise and fall with river levels and replaces the previous fixed wooden structure. Meanwhile, a new revetment wall running below the jetty, will help make the riverbank more access...

AN INQUEST on the Isle of Wight into the death of a maintenance worker from Freshwater was unable to ascertain why or when he died.

While Spiez Lab advises the public to wait for a new statement by the OPCW following its meeting tomorrow, some public pressure may need to be brought on the OPCW itself to immediately release ALL the information it has from ALL the laboratories it has used in the Skripal case.  Without such public pressure — and it is certainly not coming from any Western MSM — the OPCW may again do what it did on April 4, when by a vote of 15 to 6, with 17 members abstaining, it rejected Russia’s propo...

From Staff Reports LOCK HAVEN — While trustees of Lock Haven University do not have any vote in the proposed integration of LHU, Mansfield and Bloomsburg universities, The Express recently asked each trustee a set of questions to gauge their thoughts on the ongoing process. The Board of Governors meets this Wednesday in Harrisburg to receive the integration plans. Receipt of the consolidation proposals — which culminate months of meetings by multiple task forces established by PASSHE — ...

From Staff Reports LOCK HAVEN — While trustees of Lock Haven University do not have any vote in the proposed integration of LHU, Mansfield and Bloomsburg universities, The Express nonethless recently asked each trustee a set of questions to gauge their thoughts on the ongoing process. Faced with declining enrollments, stagnant state funds vs. increasing payroll and operating costs, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education set out two years ago to right-size those schools with enroll...

Any new site would take many years to develop, amid what is likely to be intense local opposition wherever is chosen. “It is therefore a reasonable assumption that achievement of the necessary planning permissions would be testing or impossible,” Gower said. An alternative would be to try to base Trident at King’s Bay in Georgia, in the US, where Britain’s nuclear submarines go to pick up missiles from a common pool, or possibly with the French nuclear fleet at Ile Longue, in Brittany. ...

A Forgotten Little Corner of Wood Green Posted by Hugh on August 12, 2020 at 10:40 in History of Harringay Its odd how my history journey goes. I seem to hit these patches when I keep getting drawn back to a particular small area time and again, even when I have no particular interest in it. When this happens, I tend to go with the flow and let fate take me where it will.  Recently, Ive been pulled back a number of times the block of land between Wood Green High Road and Lordship Lane. First ...