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SURVIVING HURRICANE DEAN

Leisure & Life - Hurricane DeanHurricane Dean is now storming through the Caribbean on its way to devastate Jamaica sometime tomorrow.He paid us a visit early on Friday morning while still a little hurricane; winds ... (25/09/2007) Read More [Read More]

Water way to travel!

WAKEBOARDING

Leisure & Life - I'm straight: Simon gets to grips with the board'I'm straight, I'm straight, I'm straight,' words I haven't shouted at another man since I was at a Girls Aloud gig at G-A-Y in London ... (25/09/2007) Read More [Read More]

Pope's death suggests no smoke without fire

BY SUE BRICKAY

Leisure & Life - The Last ConfessionDid the 'smiling Pope' jump or was he pushed? In 1978 when Pope John Paul l joined his maker just 33 days after he was elected by the College of ... (26/06/2007) Read More [Read More]

Information that may well blow your mind

BOOK REVIEW

Leisure & Life - Mind Bombs by Garrick AlderEver heard of Malcolm Wallace? He was named as John F Kennedy's assassin in three separate confessions and legal documents. Did you know that when doctors go on strike, death rates ... (25/09/2007) Read More [Read More]

The Black and White Mischief show

BOOK REVIEW

Leisure & Life - World War 2 fighter planeAll right, don't all shout at once.Dr Stephen Bunker (Ph.D historian, author, OU lecturer and Bedfordshire born and bred) knows his geography ... (25/09/2007) Read More [Read More]

What do you want to know?

Leisure & Life - What do you want to know?Have you ever noticed there are certain questions in life you don't know the answers to, don't know where to find the answers and don't know anyone else who ... (13/08/2007) Read More [Read More]

The Azores - Portugal's pearls

TRAVEL

Leisure & Life - The AzoresFar away places with strange sounding names have long been a passion and the Azores, a group of brilliantly green islands nestling in the Atlantic Ocean almost a thousand miles ... (25/09/2007) Read More [Read More]

We're Haven a good time

BY ALEX FINKENRATH

Leisure & Life - Haven Willingly i took my better half and two daughters (aged one and four) for a weekend break at one of Britain's biggest caravan camps ... (25/09/2007) Read More [Read More]

Oh I do love to be beside the seaside

BY SUE BRICKAY

Leisure & Life - Beach huts'Where's the map?' said Julian, chomping heartily on a jam sandwich.
"Is that it George? Oh, goodie. Now - where shall we spread it?' 'X marks the spot,' said Dick, swigging down ... (08/05/2007) Read More [Read More]

Clay pigeon shooting - it hits the target

SPORTING TARGETS

Leisure & Life - Shooting at Sporting TargetsWhen I was young I lived with my nan for a bit and she had a next door neighbour called Melvyn who loved to go shooting. I never understood why until ... (28/04/2007) Read More [Read More]

The earth moved for me but alas not the ball

GOLF

Leisure & Life - GolfWinston churchill got it right. "Golf," he rumbled, "is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the ... (20/04/2007) Read More [Read More]

If this is the real meaning of Easter give me chocolate

BY SUE BRICKAY

Leisure & Life - Naked Jesus made from 200lbs of milk chocolateYou could have been forgiven for thinking it was all just an April Fool. Last weekend, when the news came out that a gallery in Manhattan was about to exhibit a ... (05/04/2007) Read More [Read More]

Exploring Cecil's old haunts

BY SUE BRICKAY

Leisure & Life - Keith Paul searching out the energy hot spots at the Cecil Higgins mansionThere's no getting away from it, I am a scaredy-cat. I'm not proud of being a wimp and I don't recommend it but give me a choice between sitting through the ... (05/04/2007) Read More [Read More]

Let's have a party, by George

ST. GEORGE'S DAY

Leisure & Life - LeprechaunLast weekend in Bedford there was enough Guinnessswilling, twiddley-diddley music-making revelry to convince any visiting alien that they had landed slap bang in the middle of County Cork ... (05/04/2007) Read More [Read More]

Ampthill's regular Royal visitor

INTERVIEW: ROBERT DAWS

Leisure & Life - Robert DawsTime stands still in Elsinby. Time is fairly sluggish in Ampthill on occasion but now the little town boasts a shiny new Waitrose overflowing with organically-grown sunblush tomatoes and handrolled Duchy ... (05/04/2007) Read More [Read More]