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Read Brent Tomberlin's latest column here. Tomberlin is a social studies instructor at South Caldwell High School and CCC&TI.

Spread Eagle gets a new lease of life, inside and out Experienced campaigner Alan Shepherd is running Etwall pub with his partner Karen Karen Scotson and Alan Shepherd at the Spread Eagle in Etwall, along with Milly the cockapoo. (Image: Colston Crawford) Don't miss anything coming up in 2021 by subscribing to our free What's On email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe ...

Veteran space journalist Jay Barbree dies at 87 Tom Costello and Phil Helsel © Provided by NBC News Space journalist Jay Barbree died Friday in Florida. The veteran NBC News correspondent was 87. Barbree began covering NASA in 1957 when the space agency was struggling with a series of humiliating rocket explosions. In 1958, Barbree joined NBC News and began a storied career that would span 61 years. He went on to cover every human space mission to leave U.S. soil, beginning with Alan Shepherd’s Freedom 7 flight in 1961, until the last space shuttle mission in 2011. In all,...

1. Under the clouds   I left home in Fife and went to live in Glasgow when I was eighteen. When I think of it now, the distance seems laughably small – forty miles, little more than an hour in the train – but the contrast between a village on the east coast and a city, Scotland’s largest, on the west coast was sharp and exciting. I had a bedsit in a dark street of better-class tenements, with a Polish delicatessen, a dance hall and a cinema just round the corner. Glasgow seemed an infinite place, never to be known completely no matter how many suburban bus terminals you reached or expl...