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Town will face Colchester United in a pre-season friendly at the Weston Homes Community Stadium on Wednesday 23rd July (KO 7.45pm).

Town say the Portman Road pitch is currently playable despite the recent weather, the protective tent having been erected on Friday. With further snow expected before Saturday’s home game against Barnsley, the club are continuing to monitor the situation.

Last weekend, if you wanted to book a one-way flight from London to Australia leaving in two weeks with Emirates, you'd be having to pay about $11,000 at the cheapest. With Qatar, you'd have to fork out almost $14,000. If you were looking to book a one-way fare from Sydney to London around the same time, on Qatar you'd get economy for around $1000 with business class about $3000. Even in a month's time, the discrepancy remains significant, if not huge. On Qatar, London to Melbourne would cost $5169 for a mid-April departure; coming the other way, $1014. On Etihad, the price would be $5891 le...

Tucker ‘wear-masks-during meetings’ resolution passes 4-3 Kershaw County councilmen Jimmy Jones (above, front) and Ben Connell discuss Jones’ initial refusal to wear a mask during Tuesday’s council meeting following a 4-3 vote in favor of a resolution requiring masks to be worn by all those attending council meetings in order to combat COVID-19. Connell and Jones, along with Councilman Russell Brazell voted against the resolution. The conversation between the two councilmen took place during a recess used to deal with the matter. ...

Published February 02. 2021 5:38PM  At this point we should all be able to agree on the importance of our elected officials sticking to truth and facts to back up their arguments. In state Sen. Heather Somers' guest commentary, "Even in pandemic Dems turn to taxes," (Jan. 30) she states that, "The leading Democrat...wants to also increase taxes on capital gains" and that it "would hit hardworking Connecticut taxpayers who save toward their retirement with a 401(k)." This is not true, as 401(k) savings are not subject to capital gains taxes. It is certainly an argument likely to resonate with...