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Article: Church matters.(Sport)
- Article from:
- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2005
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Byline: By Francis Wood
When the lights went out
On Tuesday, at 5.30pm in common with thousands of homes on Tyneside the electricity failed, the lights went out and didn't it go quiet? I sat for nearly four hours in the dark using a torch to read like a Boy Scout in his sleeping bag. I thought of going round to the corner shop to buy four candles but I thought they might offer me fork handles.
It was the silence that got to me. No telephone, no radio, no telly, no computer. No noise. At first it was difficult to live ...
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Article: FRANCIS WOOD; Church ...
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);
August 4, 2007 ;
644 words
...WORTHY OF TRUST? In our local pub, near the till, is a notice, "IN GOD WE TRUST; ALL OTHERS, CASH". We smile for we know that the question of trust is in the news again. Every day we add to the list of institutions we can no longer trust: Children in Need, Richard and Judy, phone-in TV programmes,
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