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Western Morning News, The, July 05, 2006

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They Would Have Had Me Aborted

Comments about abortion by individuals representing the charity Antenatal Results and Choices (a charity?) who stated the so-called "right" of mothers to abort a foetus diagnosed with a club foot, or webbed fingers, indicate that those individuals believe they are "perfect": that it is unforgivable to allow physical imperfections to appear on Earth. I was born in the 1940s and had a severe case of club foot. Within six weeks the bones had firmed sufficiently to be broken and I lived in a spe...

Bring Our Troops Home

We should pull our soldiers out of Afghanistan's Helmand province now. If we want to play at being imperialists again the Ministry of Defence should try to remember what worked there for us before, and conventional ground forces didn't.

Dining Ornaments Season to Mealtime

Allowing people to add their own seasoning to their food is normal, and diners would usually have a cruet set conveniently close by for this purpose. Salt has been used as a preservative for food since ancient times, and even though we have alternative ways of preserving foodstuffs now, many of these old style recipes continue as delicacies today. Food was very bland in medieval England and salt was expensive, so at the table a large pot of salt was available. However, as it was costly, the s...

Welcome Relief in Summer Drought

Lost. No, not a verdict on the England team's performance in Germany but one of the most consistently good dramas on our screens at the moment. Eleven episodes into series two of Lost and the drama shows no signs of abating, which is just as well given the dreadful rubbish on television (and I'm not talking about our performances on the tennis court, either).

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