Fuel poverty has prompted a revival of peat-cutting on Lewis

Source: The Scotsman

IT IS early one morning in May, the Hebridean sky huge and blue, and Norman Macleod and Peter Urpeth, two old pals from Lewis, are walking out on to the moor, tools slung over their shoulders, ready for another day at the peats. We are a mile or ...
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Sports pictures of the day: May 26

Source: Daily Mail - UK

Each day, MailOnline sports picture editor Dave Muir will choose his favourite photographs from around the world in the past 24 hours. Enjoy today's selection right here... Cal Strickland of Great Britain in action d ...
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There Won't Be A New York-L.A. Stanley Cup Finals Thanks To This Overtime Goal

Source: The Business Insider

He will never admit this publicly, but if you could inject NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman with some truth serum, deep down, he had to be hoping for the New York Rangers to win the Eastern Conference Finals and set up a dre ...
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Source: Left Foot Forward

Some of the defining images of the recent Premier League season were provided by Blackburn Rovers. Finally relegated after a 1-0 defeat by Wigan on April 7th, the club have been held up by all and sundry as an example of how not ...
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Source: Eastern Owyhee County District

Those who don’t know Gamid Abatchev are prone to underestimate him. Treatment for a cancerous tumor under his right eye when he was 8 stole his vision in that eye and affected his overall growth. At 5-foot-4 and 95 pounds, the 18-year-old is ...
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Kovi helps Devils to Stanley Cup finals

Source: Russia Today

NHL star Ilya Kovalchuk, whose New Jersey Devils are currently vying with the NY Rangers for the second Stanley Cup finals berth, spoke in between games about team Russia’s success at the ice hockey worlds. ...
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A right royal jamboree in Telford Town Park

Source: Shropshire Star

news and views - 24 hours a day Their Royal Highnesses the King and Queen of Hearts invite all royal subjects young and old to celebrate the Wonderland Jubilee Jamboree. Visitors can dress in their finest royal robes when they celebrate t ...
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Medal hopeful Liam Killeen eyes Olympics

Source: Shropshire Star

news and views - 24 hours a day British Olympic medal hopeful Liam Killeen continues his preparations for London 2012 in Shropshire tomorrow. The Malvern-based downhill mountain biker will be competing in the South Shropshir ...
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RPI releases 2012-13 men's hockey schedule

Source: The Troy Record

By The Record sports staff TROY — After several changes and odifications, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s 2012-13 men’s ice hockey schedule is finalized. The Engineers open the season on Friday night, Oct. 12 against Ferris State and will again meet t ...
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