Michael Carchrie Campbell
We all know how much we in Ireland like to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, coming up soon is the Breton equivalent: Gouel Erwan, St Yves. Well this year, the Breton Association in Ireland has chosen to celebrate it in Belfast. Breizh Eire, association des Bretons d’Irlande a choisi de faire cette année la Gouel Erwan […]
On Wednesday, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will see the funeral of one of the greatest Prime Ministers of our history unfold from the first movements at the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft in the Palace of Westminster along the streets of Whitehall in the city of Westminster into the City […]
Ed Vaizey MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has placed a temporary export bar on the seven hangings which lasts until 20 May 2013 but may be extended to 20 August 2013 if a serious intention to raise funds to purchase them at the recommended price of £120,000 […]
In 1972, Morty was punched, kicked and thrown down an escalator during a gay rights protest at the New York City Hilton Hotel. Watching the attacks on the evening TV news was Morty’s mother Jeanne Manford. She was outraged that police officers appeared to ignore the assault. Following this Jeanne wrote a letter to the New […]
It’s only two weeks since I was up at the HIV clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. That appointment was an emergency one due to the somewhat awful cough and chest infection from which I was suffering at the time. The news back then was that the results from May’s blood tests were […]
Most of my friends know that I volunteer with Scouting: taking the news of the everyday adventure that the young people and adults of Bedford Scouts have to the wider public. I do so, because I love Scouting. I love how it develops everyone involved physically, mentally, and spiritually. My family has had a long […]
St Frideswide is the Patron of the City and University of Oxford.
St Frideswide, a Saxon princess, became the first Abbess of a monastery in Oxford built for her by her father. But, mostly she retired to a hermit's cell where she lived a life of sever penance. She was called from hence to her heavenly Bridegroom in the eighth century.
reading law with The Open University, adult volunteer with The Scout Association, interested in typefaces and printing, typesetter and brand aware, with a good dollop of creativity thrown in as well.
