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June 27, 2024
Were live until 11 oclock this morning. Were also talking about Free School Meals this morning. The Labour Leader says if they win the election, they will tax Private School Fees and pay for all children in state Primary Schools to have free meals. Let us know what you think of the idea. Would it help you . Or do you think there are better ways to spend the money . Are you one of the parents paying school fees who would have to fund the policy . Do get in touch on all the stories were talking ab...
January 24, 2023
Many readers will have memories of taking part in or seeing events organised by members of the Boys’ Brigade.
March 30, 2022
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March 30, 2022
Hosted by West Kirby Sailing Club on the Wirral, it was the third consecutive win of the championship for the team
December 16, 2021
He set up Britain’s first multi-racial set of chambers and was a founder of what became the Society of Black Lawyers
December 7, 2021
Lawyer who pursued principles of racial equality both for those he represented as a barrister and within the legal establishment
May 1, 2021
OVER the course of three days in the summer of 1882 the eyes of the English and Welsh cricketing world were set on a small corner of Montgomeryshire. The visit of the English United XI brought some of the stars of the Victorian age to Lymore to take on a team of Montgomery cricketers, bolstered by the addition of several players drafted in from rival clubs for the occasion. The event was celebrated at the time, with the local newspaper writing ‘It is some time since, if ever, such deeds...
April 16, 2021
BILLY STRACHAN was born 100 years ago today, on April 16 1921 in Jamaica, then a British colony. Aged just 18, he paid his own way to Britain in 1940 to join the Royal Air Force to take part in the war effort against Nazi Germany. He rose through the ranks to become flight lieutenant, a remarkable achievement for a black person at that time. Billy Strachan and his wife Joyce He married Joyce Smith and by 1946, the young couple and their three sons migrated to Jamaica to start a new life....