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  • In praise of all-seater services

    It is all too easy to overlook the locations in which day-to-day activities are held; the activities that make up the more essential parts of our lives. They are essential, perhaps, because our children rely on them; we need them for social contact and

  • Keeping the will to succeed

    IT is difficult not to have some sneaking regard for the terrorists who carried out the September 11 attacks - and we must learn from that regard if we are to defeat them. One of my favourite sayings is "failing to prepare is preparing to fail", and the

  • A first class reunion

    IN THE foyer they were playing songs by David Whitfield, of whom someone unkindly suggested that he couldn't shout coal up a passage. "Isn't that Mario Lanza?" someone else asked. It had been an awfully long time, after all. They were the class of 1949