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Woman calls for signs after attack by bird

SOME early-morning exercise on the north coast turned into a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock film after an unprovoked attack by a bird of prey. Felicity Mason was walking at Bonne Nuit when a bird swooped and pecked the top of her head, drawing blood and leading to treatment at the Emergency Department. The incident […]

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Lifelong learning should be education for all parts of life – and it shouldbe on offer throughout one’s life

By Michael Talibard “ANYONE who stops learning is old, at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” (Henry Ford). Yes, but why then does our society, or certainly our government, do little or nothing to facilitate that? “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” (John Dewey). But do our civil […]

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