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IT IS ALL RATHER FISHY

Finding Nemo was a hugely popular and successful film, winning an Oscar for the Best Animated Feature in 2003, as it followed the story of “an overprotective clownfish who searches for his

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UNFINISHED

We do not need to drive far around town nowadays to witness a scourge on the landscape – in other words, numerous unfinished houses. Huge, clumsy, ramshackle piles of bricks

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ORPHANS OR FANS

HAVE we ever considered how many orphans there are in the world? One estimate has given the figure of 153 million. That is a frightening, disturbing, alarming figure. Here in

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UNSTOPPABLE

After being taunted and mocked by his opponents, even having his head kicked and his integrity questioned, Michael Oher, in a scene from the film The Blind Side, in the

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ON THE TRACK OFF THE TRACK

Coming first is essential, is it not? It is the whole point of sport, we are led to believe. And then, of course, in order to achieve that, coming first

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WHAT THE F IS MISSING

There is a wonderful cartoon that has one character saying, “Benjamin Disraeli said ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics’” to which another character responds, “Nine

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DREAMS DASHED

The dream of every youngster who plays sport is to play it at the highest level, especially on the international stage. They are very often encouraged, trained and pushed to

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THAT IS CRAZY!

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are well-known television personalities from their hugely popular worldwide programmes ‘Top Gear’ and in more recent years, ‘The Grand Tour’, which this past

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PLAY ME

MARILYN Monroe once famously said that “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” and it is a fair assessment to guess that many ladies would agree. Another well-known actress, Elizabeth Taylor,

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LOST OR FOUND

Back in 1970, the American author Richard Bach published the book ‘Jonathan Livingston Seagull’ that “tells the story of a young seagull who is trying to learn about flying, personal