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Part-time army reservists assisting on Northern First Nations

Vorderman, who claims to have an IQ of 154, graduated from Sidney Sussex College – part of the University of Cambridge – with a masters degree in Engineering.  She dreamed of being a pilot but after her mother Edwina made her apply to an advert looking for a “woman with good mathematical skills”, her life changed forever. The casting call was for Countdown, which launched the 21-year-old’s TV career in 1982.  Despite her success, Vorderman was “never involved” in any form of “...

Heres Five: Troy Kingi Unveils His Favourite Ghost Songs Chris Cudby / Troy Kingi / Tuesday 12th January, 2021 9:56AM    Troy Kingi is ready to embark on the next phase of his decade-long 10 10 10 Series. Seemingly designed to test whether there are any limits at all to the songwriter / actors talents, Kingis massively ambitious project aims to release 10 albums in 10 years in 10 genres, with the forthcoming fifth instalment being a folk-inspired collaboration with none other than ...

  The Lamar City Council held its first meeting of 2021 this past Monday, January 11 th. City Treasurer, Kristin McCrea noted her findings for the city’s Water/Wastewater fund from 2016 to 2020 which indicated the operating expenditures for four of the past five years have been overspent. Her written report suggested the need to increase the fund balance in order to complete future capital projects. She recommended that for the 2021 budget, the city move closer to what the annual averages ha...

The Water Paradox By NARAYANI GANESH The long-held scientific and cultural belief that life began in the ocean, may perhaps soon be revised somewhat, going by new research being conducted by biochemist John Sutherland and his team at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge. Hindu mythology narrates the story of Vishnu’s 10 avatars that are believed to mirror the theory of evolution, with the Matsya Avatar, the first, indicating that aquatic beings heralded the first life forms. V...

In 1947, the year David Bowie was born, a tubercular George Orwell shuffled over to the bedroom window of his cottage on the storm-lashed Scottish island of Jura and thought about London. He was always thinking about London. The ailing Orwell—moustache and cigarette drooped downward, clad most of his days in just the same old raggedy dressing gown as he propped himself up in bed with a typewriter—was in a race against time to polish off the manuscript of what would be his ninth and final bo...

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Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However,  rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free...

Meat Packing Proposal Discussed by Granada Trustees Granada Trustees voted to approve a letter of intent to supply water and electricity to businessman Curtis Tempel during their February monthly meeting. Tempel, who is proposing a small-scale slaughter, harvest and processing facility in Granada in the vicinity of Camp Amache. Temple explained the operation would be filling a need for the area with the construction of a 15,000 square foot building. “Right now, the only USDA inspected meat pa...

by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan (HarperCollins, January) the volatile Irish-born English painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was thrown out of the family home in his early 20s for wearing his mother’s underwear. ‘The divine demon of British art’, as he became known, was obsessed with chronicling the ‘brutality’ of human flesh. His work tackled war, faith and his discomfort with his homosexuality. Drawing on extensive new material, Stevens and Swan argue that Bacon’s talent is more va...