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Ripe For Rescuing
IN 1904, when the first £1 million cheque was signed in the Cardiff Coal Exchange, no one could have imagined that, 120 years later, the French Renaissance-inspired building would be falling into ruin. It now numbers among the Victorian Society’s lat
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By The Skin Of Her Teeth
MISS LA LA floated high above the crowd, the golden frills of her costume shining as she twirled upwards. Her arms pierced the air either side of her body, her legs bent at the knee. Only her teeth, clenching a leather piece at the end of the rope th
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‘Plans Are Worthless, But Planning Is Everything’
AS day broke on June 5, 1944, Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander for Operation Overlord, the invasion of occupied Europe, was driving to South-wick House near Portsmouth from what he called his ‘sharpener camp’ the other side of t

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