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...coverage, which now dictates how the game is run. My team, a proud Premiership club with a fan base exceeding 50,000 every home game, would welcome new investment to enable us to fulfill all our dreams. Malcolm Dix, Honorary Vice President, Newcastle United Football Club, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England...
...wonder Harry Potter may be the hot read this summer, but it's just a thin chapter in the annals of great British kid lit. Now all those good reads have a home: Seven Stories, the Centre for the Children's Book, officially opens Aug. 19 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "There's never been anything like it before," says Philip Pullman, author of the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy. "For the first time, this country will have a properly organized and dedicated collection relating to children's literature." Even better, it's a groovy place for authors and their...
...summer's hot read, but it's just one chapter in the annals of English literature for kids. Now all those good reads have a home: Seven Stories, the Centre for the Children's Book, officially opens Aug. 19 in the northern English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "There's never been anything like it before," says Philip Pullman, award-winning children's author. "For the first time, this country will have a properly organized and dedicated collection relating to children's literature." Even better, it's a great place for authors and young fans to interact...
...idea was hatched in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1996 by Mary Briggs, Newcastle's assistant director of education, and Elizabeth Hammill, the kids' department manager at the local Waterstones bookshop. They solicited extensive donations and pledges of original artwork and manuscripts from heavyweights such as Pullman, Joan Aiken, illustrator Quentin Blake and ex-Monty Pythoner Terry Jones, who has been writing popular children's books since 1981. The collection, with a concentration of postwar literature, includes a 1940-99 set of the low-cost, high-quality Ladybird books, which made reading widely accessible. A recent addition is an original illustration...
Steve Cram, a slender and mellow police constable's son from the sooty British town of Jarrow on the Tyne, is one of those extraordinary competitors who seem to know just what they can do in the course of a given race. And then, in an elegant, almost preordained fashion, he simply goes out and does it. In the weeks before this summer's highly touted Dream Mile at Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Cram, 24, was clearly on a roll. On July 16 in Nice, France, he had smashed the world 1,500-meter mark by 1.10 sec. with...