I’m a worried mum

Posted by on Apr 3, 2009 in Personal | 11 comments I’ve just waved my eldest son David off at the railway station. He is on his to Hull where he will meet his university friends who he is joining on a coach trip to Spain. From what I can gather, it’s a group of sports clubs, including his football team. As well as the sun lotion, he has packed a convict’s outfit, pair of handcuffs, wig and a jockey’s racing silks. There...
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Now my freebie newspaper comes to an end

Posted by on Apr 3, 2009 in News | 4 comments The Ely Standard, is one of my local rags and like many other regional weeklies, used to be a great read. Then it became a freebie with a vastly reduced news content. Today I have been informed that I have received my last free copy of the paper. A note pushed through my letterbox explained: “Due to the current economic climate and a decline in newspaper advertising revenue, we have been...
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Can robots help save the world?

Posted by on Apr 3, 2009 in News | 4 comments If a robot can miraculously make genetic discoveries which have been unsolvable to scientists for decades, how many diseases will these incredible devices go on to cure? A robot called Adam was devised by scientists at Aberystwyth University  and Cambridge has become the first of its kind to identify a gene which controls an enzyme crucial to the production of lysine, an amino acid essential...
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