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By Avi Landau Its always the same quandary, every New Year`s Holiday I`ve spent in Japan. From January 2nd and on for the next few days, as I drift through the shopping malls and department stores (where else can you go when it`s so bitter cold), carried along as if I had no will of my own by the frenetic crowds out for HATSU URI (初売り)- The First Days of Business of the New Year – I find my eye drawn to the prominently displayed cases full of colorful shopping bags. In bold, usually red letters, things such as – KAIUN (開運ー　Brings Good Fortune), OTANOSHIMI (お楽�...

By Advertiser Reporter Swindon primary schools have been sending their reception class pictures to the Adver IT'S been a year like no other, but at least one thing has stayed the same – a new generation of children have started school. The Swindon Advertiser normally has the honour of recording this proud moment in its First Days at School supplement. But Covid restrictions this year meant our photographer was unable to visit the schools in the borough, and instead we have been publishing submitted pictures of reception classes i...

This story is part of a group of stories called This year has deeply changed us — all at once, things were no longer as they were. That was followed by the slowly dawning realization that the unfathomable was here to stay. The country was rattled; we became situated in the kind of chaos that hadn’t even ever occurred to us as a possibility. We don’t quite have our footing yet; we’re still gathering our bearings. When you’re thrown for a loop this large, it is hard not to be angry and irritable and, as the circumstances demanded of us, lonely. We’re still looking for explanati...

Bar raised  '); KATE WILLIAMS and Becky Hill, of Raise the Bar bootcamp in Gallowstree Common, raised £638 by doing 520 burpees in 41 minutes. The money will go to First Days, a Reading children’s charity. 21 December 2020