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Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | yesterday
... walks have raised more than £10million and, since Botham stumbled into the children's ward of a Taunton hospital after a foot operation in 1977, the donations have helped take the survival chances of children with leukaemia from 20 per cent to 87 per cent. Our man Lee Clayton alongside Sir Ian Botham in Bury St Edmunds 'I remember the day it started, I was the new kid on the block, just...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sir Ian, who is president of Leukaemia Research, said he was inspired to start his fundraising walks after meeting youngsters with leukaemia in Taunton, 25 years ago.
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Saintly Ramblings (Free subscription) | yesterday
... there's drizzle in the air, I suppose I'd better buy a coffee and a nibble before I head on to Taunton.More bulletins later!
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
LAKE MARY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:NGBF), today announced that it has signed a sales agreement with Taunton
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
A rapidly growing Internet-based firm has been shortlisted for a business of the year award in only its first year of trading. The National Pages, an Internet business search tool, was launched just six months ago in Taunton, Somerset.
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The Merry Royals (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... Countess of Wessex will open the new centre at Brock House Children’s Centre, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Somerset. The Countess of Wessex Patron, will attend the Two Moors Festival, Ashburton, Devon. The Princess Royal Patron, British Quality Foundation will attend the UK Excellence Awards 2008 Gala Dinner and Award Ceremony, The Grand Ballroom, London Hilton, Park Lane, London, W1Y. The...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... extend public transportation to Franklin Commons, has not been used because the Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority passes by the development. Councilor Judy Pfeffer, the lone dissenter, disagreed with the funding source. "I don't see how funding a late bus for three middle schools is a 'public purpose,' " she said. But Councilor Stephen Whalen said the late bus meets the...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
With less than four weeks until election day, Raynham-Taunton Greyhound Park owner George Carney is launching a counterattack against a state ballot question that would shut down his race track by January 2010.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... across the UK from October 10 to 18. This will be Sir Ian's 12th charity walk, kicking off in Taunton where he started his cricket career. Starting from Somerset County Cricket Club, the public can join Beefy on a four-mile walk following the banks of the River Tone and along Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. Taunton is where, 25 years ago, Beefy met youngsters with leukaemia who...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Speaking from the town, Sir Ian, president of Leukaemia Research, said: "We're visiting Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton later - and that's where in 1977 I first saw the children dying. That's why we're still walking today.
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Hellomagazine.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
After notching up 8,000 miles and raising an incredible £12 million for leukaemia research during 11 fundraising walks, Ian Botham is on the march again. The British sporting legend launched the latest of his long walks from Somerset cricket club's ground in Taunton on Wednesday. He'll finish 146 miles and eight days later in Durham, the place where he concluded his stellar cricket career. For...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
A challenge match at Taunton shattered the idea that cricketers should be adept at baseball
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Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... Your Place to Watch the World Go By” is by James M. Crisp et al. This was published by Taunton Press. This guide is essential for anyone with a porch. Everything you need to know can be found here from the how-tos of construction, planning, and design to the furnishings. Though front porches may have once been the most common, it turns out that there are many kinds of porches designed for...
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Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
... open with other forms of cancer?My eyes were opened 31 years ago when I walked into a hospital in Taunton, Somerset. I had injured my foot playing against the Australians and I went into Musgrove Park hospital for treatment. I had to walk through the children’s ward to get to physio and four lads were playing a board game.I asked a nurse if they were mates of the patients and she said no...
