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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationTT 2006; LOUGHER'S PRACTICE REPORTLougher featured as the second faster rider in both the Superbike class and the supersport 600cc class on the final evening of practice in the 2006 Isle of Man TT. Buckley is going well, again knocking eight seconds of his personal best lap time in the Superbike class.Saturday is the first race day with the Jester Interactive TT Superbike Playstation 2 game sponsored Superbike Race. It will be all to play for with six gruelling laps around the 37.75 mile per lap TT mountain circuit. Last years winner John McGuinness, will surely start as favourite to take the honours, but Lougher has been knocking on the door all week and with such a strong superbike from Stobart Motorsport, Lougher is determined to take his victory number eight in the first race of the 2006 TT. Mandating protections?Many patriotic Americans do not realize what the failed "flag-burning amendment" would have done. The proposed amendment would actually have banned desecration of the American flag.Here are some highlights from United States Code Title 4, Chapter 1: Sec. 7(b): ... When the flag is displayed on a motorcar, the staff shall be fixed firmly to the chassis or clamped to the right [front] fender. Sec. 8(d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. Sec. 8(i). The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. (This is already punishable in Washington, D.C., by $100 fine or 30 days in jail.) These rules don't come from the Boy Scout Handbook, or even army regulations, but the 77th U.S. Congress. Scot free Monty looking more relaxed than everMAMARONECK, N.Y. On Day 1 at the U.S. Open, Winged Foot West won. If we were to measure the round collectively, after 18 holes give "Tillie's" beast a 3-up jump out of the gate.
Twenty-two rounds in the 80s, a scoring average nearly six strokes over par, just a single card in the red. It's a familiar tune, played out in Dolby surround sound.
You didn't have to have one of those silver competitor's money clips and a Thursday tee time to see the damage that was done. Simply put, the wind and that wild rough conspired to end more than a few Open dreams before they ever took flight.
There was an Open tale that seemed to discover a second wind amid all those 15 mph gusts on Thursday.
Three women on day out killed in crashThree best friends died together when their car was involved in a head-on crash as they returned from a day out at the seaside. Anne Riley, Carol Backshall and Jean Wigglesworth, all in their 50s, were killed instantly at the weekend in the accident on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.The accident occurred on the A249, Brielle Way at 6pm. The three women had spent the day in Sheerness with Carol's ex-husband Brian and their grandson Ricky. .
So long, Cape Breton Festival of SpeedDown East, where an eclectic group of organizers had hoped to run a public roads race modelled on the famous Isle of Man TT, reality in the shape of insurance and government panic over open-road racing has finally hit home.In a press release, the organizers of the Cape Breton TT Festival of Speed claim it was a great shock that the Nova Scotia government had declined to allow its highways to be used for the road race planned for this coming September. According to the chair of the Cape Breton Festival of Speed Association, "the official word delivered by the province came as a devastating blow and without notice after almost a year of work and official filings for sanctioning and insurance were completed ... The province has been well aware of the event and designated it as a Signature Event with no indication that they had fundamental issues beyond the understandable need to pass the public safety requirements which were being organized by a professional technical team and race director." However, another news release from the Nova Scotia Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Heritage states that "Organizers of the Cape Breton Festival of Speed were told in writing on Nov. Compensation Scheme For Former Far East Prisoners And InterneesThe extended £10,000 payment scheme for former Far East prisoners of war and civilian internees (FEPOW) was launched today by Veterans Minister Tom Watson.With immediate effect, the scheme now includes those who were British subjects when interned and who had lived in the UK for 20 years by 7 November 2000. Mr Watson said: "I am delighted that our extended scheme is now in place. Any civilian or former member of Britain's colonial forces who was interned by the Japanese as a British subject and who lived in the United Kingdom for a total of 20 years between 1945 and the launch of the scheme in November 2000 is invited to contact the Veterans Agency to lodge a claim for this ex-gratia payment of £10,000. "I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Association of British Civilian Internees - Far East Region (ABCIFER) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on FEPOWS.
The Story of Stanley GibbonsThis new beginning had been preceded by the production of a Post Office prestige stamp booklet telling the story of Stanley Gibbons, written by SG staff writer James Watson, it illustrated historic items from company archives. The following year saw the publication of the first in what was to become a series of thematic stamp catalogues—Collect Birds on Stamps, now in its fifth edition.A new beginning was also announced for Stanley Gibbons Publications when they moved to new premises in the Hampshire town of Ringwood, close to Bournemouth and on the edge of the New Forest. The move began in 1984 and was completed by the end of the year. The new premises provided increased office and warehouse space but the move also led to some management changes. The long-time Editor of GSM, Russell Bennett, retired, his place being taken by John Holman, and Catalogue Editor Stanley Zimmerman relinquished his post to David Aggersberg (though he remained as Managing Director of the division). |
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