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Three thousand Six Hundred and Forty Seven Miles later - YES 3647 miles in 27 days.
Lawrence Laidlaw Business & Life Coach set out from Newcastle on the 1st of August
2007 to drive the coast of Britain in aid of ‘Clic Sergeant’ ( Children’s Cancer charity).
Rain, dangerous drivers and bizarre hotels were not the only adventures he faced.
Lawrence explained
‘On the way I have met some wonderful people who I will be keeping in touch with.
I should have expected rain as is typical of the British weather but there was a hell of a lot of it.
Life- media Online Ltd. ( www.sunderland-life.co.uk, www.newcastle-life.com, www.durham-life.co.uk, www.darlington-life.com, www.middlesbrough-life.co.uk )
intend to interview Lawrence as soon as he has rested to gain stories from his journey
and calculate how much has been raised, but in the meantime, we would just like to say
WELCOME BACK AND WELL DONE !!!!
You’re a Geordie Star
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ON AUGUST 1 LAWRENCE WILL set off on a mammoth trek to benefit the Clic Sargent children’s’ cancer charity. |
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So the BBC’s Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston is out, released by his terrorist captors. Terrific news for his family, the media endlessly repeated. I daresay Alan isn’t too disappointed himself. Alan talked about his “dangerous and unpredictable” captors and incarceration in a cell “two-and-a-half metres by two metres square.” No, Alan. That’s a rectangle. What can you say? |
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As I write (Mad Mel writes), there’s an intriguing debate raging, about God and between brothers. God we know. More of Him, later. The brothers are Daily Mail columnist and TV pundit Peter Hitchens and Christopher Hitchens, academic and author of the recent *‘God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything’. |
Worried about cancer? Feel you may be at risk? Like to talk to an expert and have a health check on the spot?
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| Could it be … warm food, dehydration, bruised
bananas and a numb bum are really behind schoolkids’ bad behaviour,
Mad Mel asks? Concentrate Design (http://www.concentrate.org.uk) is launching an
ingenious range of award-winning products that will help
schoolchildren focus on their lessons by keeping them comfortable,
well-hydrated and well-nourished. Mel Lewis investigates. |
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