CARING primary school students are doing their bit for Cancer Research by running around a circuit 100 times. Penruddock Primary School pupils were motivated to raise funds for Cancer Research UK after hearing about the Captain Tom 100 Challenge. After considering ideas for a ‘100’ challenge, 13 pupils from Class 2 decided to create a circuit of their school field and run or walk it 100 times. Pupils estimate it will take them six attempts to complete the ambitious challenge of 100 laps. Isabelle, aged 8 and a student at the village school said: “I am really enjoying running around the school field with my friends. She said: “I hope it will help the caring people who work for Cancer Research to do their job and help the patients who have the disease to get better.”
Updated / Friday, 5 Mar 2021
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We re delighted to present an extract from
Pure Gold, the debut collection of short stories by John Patrick McHugh, published by New Island.
Set on an imagined island off the west coast of Ireland, John Patrick McHugh s debut collection of stories conjures a complete and varied cast of characters – some lost, some lonely, many dreaming and others self-deceiving - casting a bold eye on masculinity, family and class, friendships and betrayal, and embedding us in the moments on which a life can twist and turn.
Bonfire
That summer we lit fires. Terry and I.
We d meet in the mornings, when oats still gummed my molars and the sky was beginning to shake itself blue. Two of us dressed in thready-sleeved jerseys; two of us decorated with scabs and cuts and small, sloughing burnholes. When we had money, we chucked it together and bought matches from Brett’s Newsagent. And when we had no spare coppers – the more likely – we snatched clicke
Press Conference: Senate Republicans discuss proposal to allow more spectators at HS games
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Republican state senators are holding a press conference in Raleigh this morning to discuss a bill that would allow high schools to have up to 40% capacity at outdoor sporting events.
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please the athletes, the parents and the community members of North Carolina. I also want to thank if you look behind me. What you see your members of both the house, the Senate and parents of athletes, uh, that that are being affected by some of the shutdowns that we re experiencing. So as of this morning, there s been a petition to increase the past the limits of high school sporting events that is just shy of 45,000. I have not checked that in the last few minutes, but my guess is it s probably over 45,000. Springtime is nearly here again. After a year of stress, uncertainty and illness, social ties have