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Christopher Wain »
Reliving my time in war-torn Vietnam
Posted on 4:23pm Thursday 19th April 2012
It is one of the most searing images of the 20th century: a terrified nine-year-old girl runs towards the camera after being burned by napalm in Vietnam. Journal blogger Chris Wain, then an ITN news correspondent, on what it was like to return to Vietnam 40 years later.
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Who’d be a set-designer?...
Posted on 4:54pm Monday 19th March 2012
…I found myself wondering, as the curtain rose on the opening night of the Playhouse revival of The Seven-Year Itch. The action is set in a New York apartment with a big living room, kitchen area and a small patio on stage-right.
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Remember the old Southampton Road?
Posted on 10:23am Monday 5th March 2012
Before the so-called experts created largely unused cycle lanes and erected a potentially deadly central metal fence blocking emergency vehicle access?
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It’s two decades since rail privatisation …
Posted on 11:24am Wednesday 15th February 2012
…first appeared on the political radar screen. There’d been talk of it earlier, of course, but nothing serious. Previous Tory cabinets had looked at the idea and rejected it as impractical.
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Hosting a friend who arrived last weekend…
Posted on 9:35am Friday 3rd February 2012
We took her to the wonderful King’s Singers’ concert at the Cathedral on Saturday night, enjoyed a great Sunday lunch in a pub at Burcombe, saw The Artist in the evening, visited Christchurch Priory and harbour on Monday, and finished her visit with an excellent dinner in Fisherton Street.
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I don’t often regret being retired…
Posted on 11:14am Tuesday 17th January 2012
… but with so much being written about the loss of the Costa Concordia by journalists with little understanding of ship-behaviour, this is one of those times.
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A happy new year to my readers…
Posted on 12:04pm Monday 9th January 2012
… or as they say in Germany, “Guten Rutsch” – which loosely translates as “good slide” into the new year.
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“Please consider standing for the Council…”
Posted on 4:44pm Friday 2nd December 2011
… urges Rantone in response to my last offering. Awe gee, shucks, I mean: what, me?
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Recently at a military welcome home service …
Posted on 3:02pm Monday 21st November 2011
… in the cathedral there was an embarrassing moment when one of the officers thanked our “Lord Mayor” for attending. But it was an understandable slip. After all, if our powerless parish council insists on styling itself as something it isn’t, there’s bound to be confusion.
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News from CHAOS
Posted on 9:34am Monday 7th November 2011
The Community Highways Administrative Office (Salisbury) is making good progress with its 2011 winter disruption scheme.
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