Britain’s hopeful Alistair Brownlee didn’t let the home crowd down as the 21-year-old dashed to win the sixth leg of World Triathlon Championships Series here on Saturday.
The hot favorite Brownlee had grabbed three gold medals from the first five legs and made a shining start on Saturday by finishing the 1,500 meters swimming course in [...]
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blog:Home star Brownlee triumphs at World Triathlon Championship Series
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blog:Warner Chilcott Plans To Buy Procter And Gamble For $3 Billion
The Wall Street Journal on Sunday came up with reports that the drug maker Warner Chilcott, which primarily makes acne-related medications, offers hormone therapy and birth-control pills is willful of taking up Procter & Gamble. The company’s (P&G) Ohio-based drug-manufacturing unit was up for sale from December 2008. However there are at least 2 more [...]
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blog:Sheer bad luck for Ekta Chaudhary, says fashion frat
India’s drought at the Miss Universe pageant continued as Miss India Ekta Chaudhary failed to reach the top 15 for the 2009 edition of the event, but the designers here feel she was a “deserving candidate” and lost because of sheer “bad luck”.
“Bad Luck!” designer Vijay Arora said after he got to know the result.
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blog：In search of the sun
Rhona Baty, world travel specialist at Thomas Cook in Carlisle, says the Caribbean is popular. She said: “Destinations such as the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Mexico
are more affordable now.
“Honeymoons to destinations that offer sunshine and a beach continue to be the main choice.”
Rhona has also received requests for different types of holidays, such as cruises.
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blog：How to dress to impress
Before your first dress shop visit, it is essential to decide on your budget and then make sure you stick to it.
Dresses can range in price from less than £100 to several thousands.
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blog：A real family affair!
When Jennifer Barry got engaged to Thomas Gibson in July last year her thoughts turned to her parents Alan and Pia’s wedding, which they shared with Alan’s sister
Fiona and her husband Graham Partridge.
They were married at Holy Trinity Church, Northside and were told at the time that it was the first double wedding in Cumbria.
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blog：Cumbrian parents left baby with broken knee for 24 hours
James Carruthers and Kelly Mumby – both 22 – failed to seek urgent medical attention for their five-week-old son.
The News & Star was previously banned from naming the couple but yesterday Judge Paul Batty QC lifted reporting restrictions allowing us to name and shame the pair.
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blog：Jail warning for gang who tied up woman and left her in Cumbrian container
Ann Haynes, 53, was making a delivery to electrical wholesalers Rexel Senate at Moresby Parks Industrial Estate in Whitehaven when three men – Paul McNish, Callum
Tyson and Mohammed Niaz – made off with her keys, her van and its cargo.
They left her bound inside a container for eight hours in July last year.
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blog：Record breaking turn-out at Dalston Show
The August sunshine brought thousands through the gates of Dalston Showfield on Saturday for the climax of the village festival.
Among the entrants in the industrial section was 15-year-old Laura Potts who, like many others, froze her baking entries made for the abandoned Cumberland Show in
July.
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blog：Online campaign starts for better Border TV news service
The online campaign has been started by Carlisle solicitor Cheryl Broad, and has attracted more than 250 supporters in its first few days.
They are being asked to write to the Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw and the Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms, asking them to make the region a trial for
Independently Financed News Consortia, a [...]
