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The amazing paddy fields of England
Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/10/2025
» Important news from Blighty. Rice has been grown for the first time in Britain in the Fens of Cambridgeshire. Apparently this is a result of an unusually hot summer. For a project that had once been dismissed as a joke it's quite an achievement. Let's hope the notoriously fickle English weather doesn't spoil it all. It will probably start snowing tomorrow.
A 10-day journey across snowy Iran
Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/06/2025
» Watching events unfold in the Middle East last week sparked memories of the brief time I spent in Iran a long time ago in more peaceful times. In February 1969 I travelled across the northern part of the nation during an overland trip from London to New Delhi. The country was still run by the Shah who was overthrown 10 years later in the Iranian Revolution.
Ukrainian soldiers wait to reinforce 'real hell' of Bakhmut
AFP, Published on 09/03/2023
» CHASIV YAR (UKRAINE) - Standing in mud, a group of Ukrainian soldiers armed with military kit and rations wait nervously be to sent as reinforcements to the eastern town of Bakhmut.
France repatriates more women, children from Syrian jihadist camp
AFP, Published on 24/01/2023
» PARIS - France Tuesday repatriated 15 women and 32 children held in a prison camp for suspected jihadists in Syria, the foreign ministry said, in the third major return of French citizens from the country.
Chris Hipkins chosen as next New Zealand PM
AFP, Published on 21/01/2023
» AUCKLAND - New Zealand's former Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins will replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after receiving the only nomination from fellow MPs, the ruling Labour Party said Saturday.
Deep freeze grips North America
Published on 23/12/2022
» A deep freeze enveloped most of the United States early Friday, while a massive winter storm brewing in the Midwest left two-thirds of the country under extreme weather alerts, confounding Christmas travel plans for millions.
A country so different to anywhere else
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 22/08/2021
» The dramatic events in Afghanistan inevitably sparked memories of my own brief experiences of the country more than 50 years ago while on an overland trip from London to New Delhi and beyond.
Dodgers, Yankees lose as Covid looms over baseball openers
AFP, Published on 02/04/2021
» LOS ANGELES - The defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees suffered opening defeats as Major League Baseball's 2021 season began Thursday under the shadow of Covid-19.
Deadly snowstorms cause chaos across Spain
AFP, Published on 09/01/2021
» MADRID - Snowstorms across much of Spain left three people dead and caused chaos across much of the country, trapping motorists and closing the capital's air and rail links, with more falls to come Saturday.
Stuck in Greek snow, refugees already miss dismal camps
AFP, Published on 17/12/2019
» VASILITSA, Greece: Sitting in the lobby of a disused ski lodge on a northern Greek mountain, Congolese asylum-seeker Sylva Caumba blankly stares at the unfamiliar snow outside.