St. George's

St George's Hall reaches Lottery finals

Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | yesterday

ST George’s Hall has reached the finals of the 2008 National Lottery Awards.

Adelaide farmer with Congo fever dies

Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday

THE Adelaide farmer and hunter diagnosed with Congo fever earlier this month, died at St George‘s Hospital yesterday.

• Farmer with Crimea-Congo fever dies - IOL

Vote for St George's Hall

Louise Baldock (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

St George's Hall needs your votes - again! (from email from LCC) St George's Hall has made it through to the finals of the National Lottery Good Causes awards. Thanks to everyone who voted! It now faces two other projects in the Best Heritage category: the Armed Forces memorial in Lichfield and the Diamond War memorial in Derry. We need your support again to win the top spot and the £2000 prize. Please...

An Ode to Mushrooms 2

Gatochy's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Calocybe gambosa (St George's Mushroom) 9430 , originally uploaded by wentloog . My buddy Trey has graciously agreed to share with us an old family recipe for Cream of Mushroom Soup. It's originally from a 1948 cookbook, that was offered to his mom as a wedding gift. Trey recommends using beef broth instead of chicken. Bon apétit! Cream of Mushroom Soup 1/4 lb. fresh mushrooms or 1/8 cups minces, mushroom...

St George's Brown is new Giants coach

The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008

Huddersfield have appointed Nathan Brown as their new coach. The Australian, who is in charge at St George-Illawarra, will arrive at the end of the NRL season on a three-year contract. He succeeds Jon Sharp, who was sacked last month after the Giants slumped to next to bottom in Super League.

More on Progressio

Catholic Action UK (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008

Briefing and comment: John Smeaton has been digging into the charity Progressio, which manages combine a denial that it is Catholic with a listing in the national Catholic Directory, and the privilege of using Catholic churches (even St George's Cathedral in Southwark ) to distribute their literature. As if this wasn't impressive enough, Smeaton points out that Progressio's 'partners' in Latin America...

From 'Borat country' to Birkdale, Lyle arrives minus clubs and tells struggling Scots to 'buckle up'

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008

SANDY Lyle, the champion golfer at Royal St George's in 1985, yesterday urged his young compatriots not to lose heart after a meagre Scottish representation of just four p

Manchester's Banyan Tree

Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008

The Banyan Tree, located in Moho Building in Castlefield, is the current hot-spot for all who live and work at The Box Works, Timber Wharf, and on St George's Island. It stands right across the road from the converted church, and the glass wall that faces the road allows in generous heaps of light at all hours. The Banyan Tree is named so after the banyans or banians; the Hindu traders seen resting...

Grenada police detain prime minister's office employee

Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC):A woman whose job was to coordinate the outreach community programme for former Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell was yesterday morning detained by police after she was discovered leaving the office with documents relating to government projects...

Grenada's Mitchell swept out of power

Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC): Grenada's New National Party (NNP) last night conceded defeat after 13 years in government. NNP Campaign Chairman Einstein Louison said on television that based on the preliminary figures, it appears that his party had...

Special Features: Great and the good

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

MR BROCKLEBANK flushed with pride at the University of Liverpool’s centenary graduand dinner at St George’s Hall, packed with the great, the good and Elvis Costello.

Mr Brocklebank: Great and the good

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

MR BROCKLEBANK flushed with pride at the University of Liverpool’s centenary graduand dinner at St George’s Hall, packed with the great, the good and Elvis Costello.

St George's brand damage

Business Spectator (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

Aggressive attempts by St George to meet forecast growth in cash earnings have the propensity to make Westpac nervous, especially if they are achieved at the expense of goodwill. 8 Jul 2008 6:41 AM

Cannabis Factory found in St George's Road

Dan Hassett (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

From www.localrags.co.uk Almost 1,000 cannabis plants with a potential street value of tens of thousands of pounds have been discovered at an address in Cheriton, Folkestone. A warrant was carried out by Kent Police at the house in St George's Road on Thursday 3 July when the plants, which were at varying stages of growth, were found. Police are investigating the discovery and asking anyone with information,...

Progressio: promoted in a Catholic cathedral, it promotes abortion

Catholic Action UK (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Action: complaints, please, to Canon James Cronin, Dean of Southwark (St George's Cathedral) and to Bishop MacDonald of Southwark, through his secretary Monsignor William Saunders , at the promotion of Progressio. As we revealed in our dossier , Progressio dissents explicitly from Church teaching on contraception and is clearly pro-abortion as well - as this latest news also suggests. From John Smeaton...