April 1, 2012
The first day of April has always been the day when everyone tries to fool everyone else, but if you think that sort of thing only takes place on a personal and local basis we have been investigating some of the pranks that have been perpetrated by both the media and people who should know [...]
March 28, 2012
Make-up and skincare workshops for women cancer patients Look Good…Feel Better (LGFB), a national charity supported by the Beauty Industry, provides free skincare and make-up workshops to help combat the visible side effects of cancer treatment and, in turn, boost confidence and wellbeing. LGFB came to The Holistic Cancer Care Centre at James Cook University [...]
March 17, 2012
Every year we join the Irish in celebrating St Patrick’s Day and although it’s an established Church of England festival there are still very few people who actually know who St Patrick really was. While there is little real evidence of his early life it is thought he was born in Wales about AD 385 [...]
March 12, 2012
Speaking to a friend recently he outlined the problems he reckoned the UK was faced with. Not being the most intelligent man I ever met I wasn’t too impressed with the argument but this is how he put it…. ”There are, he said approximately 60 million people in this country. 32 million are retired or [...]
March 11, 2012
Teesside Hospice Care Foundation based in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough was established in 1982 to enhance the lives of those suffering from life limiting illnesses in the Teesside region, free of charge. The services offered by Teesside Hospice include: 10 bedded Inpatient Unit, 16 guest per day Edward & Glenis Guy Day Centre, working in partnership with [...]
March 9, 2012
Trends on Twitter change minute by minute, but an interesting one that we found today was #ComputingSongs , people changing the names of songs to have a computer/technological relation. To include yourself in any current trend #[name of trend] into a tweet that you post! For the trend mentioned above here are some great ones [...]
March 7, 2012
A friend of ours used to claim that although he had been in many places in the world there were some he had never visited and some that seemed a little strange when he did. Here are some of excellent examples of both. ‘I have never been in Cognito,’ he said. ‘I hear no one [...]
March 6, 2012
Contact the Elderly are planning a new group in Redcar. Contact the Elderly organise tea parties for elderly, isolated local people, over 75. Our volunteers drivers collect 2-3 elderly people and take them to a volunteers hosts home, one Sunday afternoon a month, 12 months a year. We have a local Co-ordinator in place and are [...]
March 5, 2012
The easiest thing in football is to blame injuries and suspensions for poor results. Conversely, the hardest thing – judging by the very few managers who actually achieve it – is to replace the missing personnel with young, hungry and enthusiastic members of the youth squad. Strangely that has never really been a problem at [...]
March 5, 2012
A new email virus is currently circling the internet. The email appears to come from FedEx.com the email global@fedex.com. The email says you have a parcel waiting at your local FedEx centre awaiting collection and ask you to open and printout an attachment. The attachment is virus file and should NOT be opened. FedEx have [...]