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A dog groomer from Bledlow has been given six months to pay back some of the £44,000 she stole from the country store where she worked. Rebecca Austin had boasted on Facebook about going to see Ed Sheeran live in concert; taking in the show Bat Out of Hell at London’s Dominion Theatre; swigging glasses of fizz on a day at the Royal Ascot races and enjoying foreign holidays in San Diego, Nice and Denia, Spain. The mother-of-two was flush with cash after she deleted records of transactions at Widmer Feeds over the course of three years, meaning her deception went undetected by the team...

precocious adolescent to the paramilitary force on the eve of the revolution mr. randall has gone beyond the mix, rendering an accurate portrait of one of the least examined patriots. he's the author of numerous books including bog raves of thomas jefferson and george washington. he's been nominated six times for the pulitzer prize and a newly happily retired history professor from sham plain college. please help me in welcoming him to politics and prose. >> thank you very much. thank you for coming out. tonight in the thunder and lightning. my point of departure is right from the in...

understand the way in which they could develop, but we have still a lot to learn about how to be usefully partners of africa and not normally what the chinese are doing at the present, which is buying land and that is dangerous for africa because land has to be used for agriculture and not for bioenergy. so the problem of africa is one of those that is giving me the most thought i traveled in africa and therefore man's it to your question is all too brief. we could have a long, long conversation about it sometime, but not today. [applause] >> and now willard sterne randall recounts t...

>> on behalf of everyone here i would like to welcome you. i am pleased to welcome willard sterne randall for his biography "ethan allen: his life and times". ethan allen was leader of the green mountain boys and is remembered for his attack on fort ticonderoga in 1775 and time spent as prisoners of war in england but by chronicling his struggle to commander of the largest american paramilitary force on the eve of a revolution mr. willard sterne randall renders an accurate portrait of one of our least examined patriots. willard sterne randall has written biographies of thomas jeffers...

but rather than to look inward and say, oh, we have some really incredible structural problems with our economy or we have problems with a society where 4 million people are held in bondage -- rather than to discuss that, you find someone else you can blame. you find the scapegoat. and so in the 1840s, the convenient scapegoat are irish immigrants. they are poor. they are catholic. they are different from us. and they threaten us. i should note by the way that fillmore brings a treaty with switzerland to the senate and urges the senate to pass this treaty because it will give america...