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The New America of the Wolds and the Fens  -  Nov 10, 2008
American Chronicle,We were chatting recently, and he decided to tell me the story of two cultures in English history called the "wolds" and the "fens.

Police trap car initiative in Fens  -  Nov 11, 2008
Peterborough Today,By Nick Reinis Six hundred “Am I a trap car?�? stickers have been given free to drivers to put in their windscreens, and 20 signs have been put up warning

Firm to steer fens bridge  -  Nov 6, 2008
Regen.net (subscription),Royal Haskoning has been appointed by the National Trust to project-manage the planning, design and supervision of a bridge in the Cambridgeshire fens.

Levski and CSKA football fens detained before the beginning of the ...  -  Nov 1, 2008
Focus News,The police have detained nine football fens over neglecting of police order. Two of them were without identifying documents, press centre of the Ministry of

Wisbech win battle of the Fens in trecherous rain  -  Oct 29, 2008
Cambs Times,By ADAM LAZZARI WORKERS draining the Fens in the 17th faced major battles, including huge opposition from locals and shrinking peat.

WIN!: Author writes novel set in the Fens more than 300 years ago ...  -  Oct 23, 2008
Wisbech Standard,A NOVEL based around the time the Fens were drained more than 300 years ago is set to hit the bookshelves - and we have two copies to give away.

Fens brought to life by photo challenge  -  Oct 24, 2008
Cambridge Evening News,BUTTERFLIES and birds, sunsets and hedges all feature in an exhibition of prize-winning images of the Fens. Organised jointly by the Cambridge Museum of

Studios open doors to place Art on the Map  -  Nov 13, 2008
Boston Standard,..."My home is my studio where I paint people and places, finding inspiration in the bustle of the town and the infinite spaces of the Fens," said Lind,

Tapping House finds bags of funds at Co-op  -  Nov 14, 2008
Lynn News,...support the hospice simply could not continue providing the vital care that helps so many patients, families and carers throughout Norfolk and the Fens.

Silver Fens win opening encounter  -  Oct 26, 2008
SportsAustralia.com,New Zealand’s Silver Ferns opened their tour of Australia with a 46-41 victory over the Australian Diamonds at Hisense in Melbourne this afternoon.

What's on at the theatres across the Fens over the next week.  -  Oct 23, 2008
Hunts Post,STAINED Glass Museum (Cathedral) - Exhibition of stained glass wall hangings by Leo Amery, runs until Saturday, November 8 (Mon-Fri 10.30am-5pm,

Why do we pay more?  -  Nov 13, 2008
Fenland Today,It would appear that Wisbech has the most expensive petrol and diesel in the Fens. It seems strange that all surrounding areas are less expensive by 3p-5p

Mixed signals at a tricky intersection  -  Oct 25, 2008
Boston Globe,Until recently, pedestrians got mixed signals when they tried to cross at the Boylston Street-Bowker Overpass intersection in the Back Bay Fens.

Wildlife photos on display  -  Nov 11, 2008
The Thetford and Brandon Times,Forty winning and highly commended images from the 'Fens through a Lens' competition will be on display at the RSPB's Lakenheath Fen from Saturday to

Dear Vicki and Octavia,  -  Oct 26, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,Hauling a London family off to the Fens takes a deal of planning; I doubt he's done any. Tell him hope is not a plan. Draw up lists and keep discussing:

Corned beef murder in Kirkby on Bain  -  Nov 1, 2008
Horncastle Today,This is just one of the stories described in a new book written by Glenda Goulden called Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths In and Around the Fens.

It's clean up time at Oxburgh Hall  -  Nov 6, 2008
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press,That includes the priest hole, dizzying spiral staircases and the top of the Tudor gatehouse, with panoramic views towards the Fens and Wissey Valley.

Lack Of Migrant Workers Will Cause Gap in Agricultural Jobs Market ...  -  Oct 29, 2008
Ely Standard,The Fens alone support 27000 agricultural jobs and produce more than a third of the UK's vegetables. More than half of the seasonal work in the fields is

History shows best river management  -  Nov 5, 2008
Hunts Post,The basic requirement of flood protection was best expressed by Cornelius Vermuyden, who claimed and tamed the realm of Hereward the Wake - the Fens.

Holyhell & Manowar - faces of Kavarna municipality for 2009  -  Nov 3, 2008
News.bg,To the pleasure of all rock fens in Bulgaria, in December every edition of “Pro-ROCK�? magazine will be sold with a present attached to it – calendar of

Flag Fen: Family Day celebration  -  Oct 30, 2008
Peterborough Today,Chief Bard of the Fens, Robin Herne will be telling some gory tales and there will also be storytelling for the under fives and children's activities.

Got a question for the RSPB?  -  Oct 27, 2008
FarmersWeekly,And how can the RSPB justify buying up Grade 1 land in the fens to return to bird habitat at a time of global food shortage?

Tales to spook all who dare go out in Huntingdon on Halloween  -  Oct 23, 2008
Town Crier Today,Polly Howat will be entertaining an audience – literally on stage – with her Dark Tales From The Misty Fens. "The deep water holes and quaking bogs yield

Visitors that we could do without  -  Oct 22, 2008
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press,...believed to have stowed away in cargo ships' ballast decades ago, would eventually make their way around the coast from the Thames Estuary to the Fens.

I saw goose hit by wind turbine  -  Oct 22, 2008
Fenland Today,This made me wonder how many birds are being hit by these blades across the fens and are managing to fly on before dying a slow and painful death.

Briefs: Land buys could expand forest preserves  -  Nov 13, 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,The largest recommended purchase was 94 acres on Kelsey Road just west of Old Barrington Road, to allow for the restoration of fens, marsh areas and savanna

My dog gave me back the will to live after I was left paralysed ...  -  Nov 14, 2008
Daily Mail,Were it not for a dog called Lex, Susi Rogers-Hartley would not be riding out today across the flat fens of Norfolk on a handsome black gelding.

Woman jailed for stealing washing powder  -  Nov 14, 2008
Dudley News,In court on November 5: Martyn Gwynne, aged 19, of Fens Crescent, Brierley Hill, was handed a community order and ordered to pay £60 court costs for

Foresters purchase land along Fox River $6.5M for 94 acres  -  Nov 14, 2008
Waukegan News Sun,...located in Lake Barrington, includes a large hill overlooking the Fox River and 4600 feet of river frontage, as well as heavily wooded areas and fens.

There’ll be music in the woods soon! Story and pictures  -  Nov 13, 2008
Huddersfield Examiner,...“I grew up in the Fens and so I feel that I have a sort of connection with the land. “ “It’s not comfortable to live somewhere like that because you are

Jonathan Meades: 'I have saucisson issues'  -  Nov 8, 2008
Independent,His wide and various interests – from architecture to the fens – are demonstrated in a new DVD collection of his glorious TV work since 1990.

The Life of Charles Darwin Part 3  -  Nov 12, 2008
Activist (subscription),He spent hours combing the local meadows, fens, and gardens sniping for rare or prized specimens. By 1830 Darwin was considered to be among the country's

MFA, Boston Selects Ann Beha Architects to Develop Master Plan for ...  -  Nov 13, 2008
Art DailyIt overlooks the Back Bay Fens portion of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace, as do the Museum and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The newly

British angling championship should be here to stay  -  Nov 12, 2008
Peterborough Today,...the drains produced on the day I feel the match was a resounding success and look forward to coming back to the Whittlesey fens once again next year.

Saskatchewan offers ideal hunting spot  -  Nov 1, 2008
Minneapolis Star Tribune,The cranes had been staging in fens and prairie hollows in anticipation of flying south, and we intercepted some of them en route to a roost lake.

Force play  -  Oct 26, 2008
Boston Globe,For nearly eight years, he was a contract worker in the Fens, a magnificently paid enigma who helped revolutionize New England's baseball culture by

Syncrude attempting to reconstruct watershed after oil sands mining  -  Nov 11, 2008
Troy Media Corporation,Qualizza’s team hopes to transplant blocks of peat from natural fens to enhance the re-vegetation process. The experimental fen should be finished in 2010.

Kane Forest Preserve District gets $1.4 million to buy land  -  Nov 10, 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,Acquisition of the property, which includes riverfront, wetlands, fens and woodlands, had been a forest preserve district goal for two decades.

Epic off-season looms  -  Nov 7, 2008
The Pilot,They play hardball at the Fens nowadays. Theo and company got sentimental last winter and got suckered by Curt Schilling. It won’t happen two years in a

Dersingham accountant gets £4608 from run for charity  -  Nov 7, 2008
Lynn News,...to know this money is going to support a worthwhile local charity which helps people throughout Norfolk as well as The Fens, when they need it most.

Tireless fundraiser Trevor Wood dies  -  Nov 6, 2008
Great Yarmouth Mercury,Following national service, he attended teacher training college at Culham near Oxford, before take up his first post teaching PE at Ramsey in the Fens.

MARCH: Tommy's eco dream home turns into a nightmare as he ...  -  Nov 6, 2008
Cambs Times,The newly detached house in Church Street, March, was acclaimed as the most energy efficient house in the Fens and includes a host of eco-friendly features,

Sofia by night  -  Nov 3, 2008
Focus News,A 52-year-old man has been splashed with acid on Hristo Smirnenski Str. The man has been hospitalized at 19pm with 2% burnings. Levski FC football fens have

Cox frees himself from JMW Turner  -  Nov 2, 2008
Waterbury Republican American,His fields are craggy, mossy fens of lush vegetation and statuesque trees. And everything, from leaves to streams, appears to move.

Cleveland Police officers up for top national awards  -  Nov 1, 2008
GazetteLive,His citation says the Hartlepool-based officer has helped the community by tackling anti-social behaviour at the Fens shopping centre.

The Shadow Odyssey Press Tour with Exclusive Pics!  -  Oct 31, 2008
Allakhazam,She told us that the Ykeshan landmass is about the same size as Fens of Nathsar, but there's action in the waters, making it actually larger.

Wetlands in Murray Darling Basin Disappear – Ecological Crisis in ...  -  Oct 29, 2008
MedIndia,Wetlands include swamps, marshes, billabongs, lakes, salt marshes, mudflats, mangroves, coral reefs, fens, peat bogs, or bodies of water - whether natural

News in Brief  -  Oct 29, 2008
New Energy Focus,EDF Energies Nouvelles and EDF Energy Renewables have started the commissioning process for its 26MW Bicker Wind Farm in the Lincolnshire Fens.

Tesco aims to open in closed store  -  Oct 29, 2008
Hartlepool Today,Tesco already has three stores in Hartlepool, one at Throston Grange shops, the Fens shopping parade and the main Tesco Extra store in Burn Road.

America: Come For Ribs, Stay For Contrasts  -  Oct 28, 2008
Tampa Tribune,Maybe the recession is only something that happens out in the fens and bogs of the country and not here where muckety-mucks don't have to worry about

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