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Artisan: branching out with living sculptures.
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VOX
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March 22, 2007
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- Halpin, Anne
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The fine art of espalier, by the Leuthardt masters
Rows of trees in fantastic shapes greet visitors entering the Henry Leuthardt Nursery in East Moriches. Some resemble candelabras, with two or three pairs of U-shaped arms. Others form simple vertical or horizontal lines. Some have branches splayed out like a lady's fan. Most amazing of all is a group of trees whose diagonal branches interlace to form a grid of diamond-shaped spaces.
These trees are not the magical creations of some woodland wizard. They're espaliered fruit trees, grown and trained by three generations of the Leuthardt family. On this rainy winter day their intricate forms, free of leaves or fruit, ...
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Mother steps in to buy failed nursery.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);
August 14, 2004 ;
613 words
......saved her children's financially-stricken nursery from closure by buying it just ten minutes...invested her own cash into the Jigsaw Nursery in Rubery, Birmingham, for the sake of...deal at a last-ditch meeting with the nursery's owners, who had already issued redundancy...
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Complaints upheld after abuse investigation at north-east day nursery
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);
December 22, 2006 ;
Andy Philip; Emma Christie;
770 words
......inappropriately restrained by staff at a north-east nursery, an official investigation has found...abuse against children at Wee Rascals Nursery, Kintore, Aberdeenshire, have been upheld...yesterday many parents with children at the nursery said they stood by the staff and insisted...
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Complaints upheld after probe into day nursery
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);
December 22, 2006 ;
Andy Philip; Emma Christie;
696 words
......inappropriately restrained by staff at a north-east nursery, an official investigation has found...abuse against children at Wee Rascals Nursery, Kintore, Aberdeenshire, have been upheld...yesterday many parents with children at the nursery said they stood by the staff and insisted...
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Nursery closed as toddlers fall ill with suspected E.coli.
The Daily Mail (London, England);
May 10, 2006 ;
659 words
......BRIAN LEWIS THREE toddlers from the same nursery were last night fighting for their lives...100 other children who attend the same nursery were warned to keep them under close scrutiny...childcare centre involved - the Careshare nursery in Dunfermline - was voluntarily closed...
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10-MONTH-OLD BABY CHOKES TO DEATH ON APPLE AT NURSERY; Police launch probe...
The Mirror (London, England);
April 21, 2006 ;
557 words
......after choking on a piece of apple at a nursery. A police investigation has been launched...death at the Just Learning Centre. The nursery has already been probed after a 15-month-o...Paramedics were called to the Cambridgeshire nursery on Wednesday after the baby stopped breathing...
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Parents fight to save their unique nursery.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);
September 2, 2006 ;
396 words
......Whitfield Parents are fighting to save a nursery which they say offers a unique service...region's most vulnerable children. The nursery, run by the charity Barnardo's in North...year on top of parents' fees to keep the nursery open. But a number of parents of children...
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B&B babies in Scotland's first 24-hour nursery
Evening Times;
March 23, 2001 ;
467 words
...GLASGOW'S first 24-hour nursery was due to open for business today. Nursery owner Angela Eakins is hoping the new venture, thought...leave their children overnight at the new Harlequin Nursery premises in the Mansewood area of town. The nursery...
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Nursery in city stone fall alarm
Evening News - Scotland;
October 12, 2002 ;
ANGIE BROWN;
668 words
......street outside an Edinburgh children's nursery just after a stream of parents dropped...to the pavement outside the Early Days Nursery just half an hour after the street was...left parents of children attending the nursery and residents of the street worried about...
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Suspended nursery staff return to work
Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);
January 9, 2007 ;
248 words
...Nursery staff at the centre of an abuse case returned to work yesterday after a five-week suspension. Seven complaints...last month, detailing how they humiliated, force-fed and inappropriately restrained children at Wee Rascals Nursery, in Kintore. The nursery was also issued with an improvement notice, ...
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MAYO NURSERY TO SHOW OFF RENOVATIONS.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
October 6, 1998 ;
Mountain, Rocky;
323 words
......Catholic Charities Margery Reed Mayo Day Nursery, 1128 28th St., will host a community...show off $1 million in renovations. The nursery, which cares for children from low-income...in 1898. Johanna Breusch started the nursery in her home on Wewatta Street - Union...
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Nursery in E coli alert was told to improve its cleanliness
The Scotsman;
May 10, 2006 ;
IAN JOHNSTON AND SHAN ROSS;
787 words
...THE nursery at the centre of an E coli outbreak was...children from the same group at the Careshare nursery in Dunfermline were last night fighting...coli 0157 bug. The company which runs the nursery, attached to Lauder College, yesterday...
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JMU NURSERY CLOSURE WILL 'HIT PARENTS; STUDENTS FACE HARDSHIP OVER...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);
December 12, 2005 ;
468 words
......By JANE WOODHEAD Education Reporter A NURSERY which has provided a lifeline for student...John Moores University has confirmed its nursery will close at the end of this week, despite...the ECHO revealed plans to close the nursery, but bosses gave an 11th hour reprieve...
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Doubts over future of busy day nursery; CLOSURE FEAR: Tot's angry mum...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);
September 24, 2007 ;
422 words
......hangs over the future of a Coventry nursery. Parents and staff received a shock announcement that Leapfrog day nursery in Herald Avenue, Canley, was to close...withdrawn by new owner Busy Bees, a nursery group which took over the Leapfrog chain...
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E coli: toddlers in fight for life as nursery's record probed
The Scotsman;
May 10, 2006 ;
IAN JOHNSTON AND SHAN ROSS;
787 words
...THE nursery at the centre of an E coli outbreak was...children from the same group at the Careshare nursery in Dunfermline were last night fighting...stories about it." The company which runs the nursery, attached to Lauder College, yesterday...
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Estate nursery wins top marks
The Northern Echo;
March 15, 1999 ;
Guy Boswell;
350 words
...A NEW nursery school on a beleaguered estate has been...being open only 18 months. St Hilda's Nursery, Middlesbrough, was set up in the wake...and campaigned for the re-opening of the nursery section of the junior school. The area...
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