Westcliff-on-Sea

Type: City
Name: Westcliff-on-Sea
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Jean Floud: Sociologist whose work revealed the impact of class on educational attainment

Jean Floud was an academic and leading educational sociologist who demonstrated the power of class in shaping educational achievement and in so doing aided the intellectual agenda for the abolition of the grammar school system. Something of a trailblazer ... [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Has the universe got a top and bottom?

Readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts Has the universe a top and bottom? If it has, which is the right way up?"Up" and "down" are terms we use to describe our relationship ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 15 2013]
First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

BRANSTORE LIMITED

(Company Number 07653296)(Trading Name of Company: Shanghai Blues)114 Hamlet Court Road, Westcliff-on-Sea SS0 7LPPrincipal Trading Address: 193-197 High Holborn, London WC1V 7BD Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 98 of the Insolvency Act 1986, ... [Published London Gazette - May 07 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Weird stories - late delivery

A captured First World War soldier’s postcard home has emerged 95 years after it was sent from a prisoner of war camp in Germany.Charles Jeffries sent the card from a camp in Limburg an der Lahn on April 30 1918 to let his family in Westcliff-on-Sea, ... [Published Lancashire Evening Post - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 5 reports

PoW’s card home resurfaces

A CAPTURED First World War soldier’s postcard home has emerged 95 years after it was sent from a prisoner of war camp in Germany. Charles Jeffries sent the card from a camp in Limburg an der Lahn on April 30, 1918 to let his family in Westcliff-on-Sea, ... [Published Yorkshire Post - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

FOOTSTEPS SUPPORTED LIVING LIMITED

Final Meetings (Company Number 04668103)(t/a Footsteps)Principal Trading Address: 9 Cobham Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 8EG Notice is hereby given, pursuant to Section 106 of the Insolvency Act 1986, that a final meeting of the members of the above ... [Published London Gazette - Apr 22 2013]
First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

CRAFT AND VINTAGE FAIR

ROSES ROUND THE DOOR PROMOTIONS present a CRAFT & VINTAGE FAIR. Buy a unique gift or treat yourself. Refreshments and homemade cake available. Free parking. Reasonably priced stalls are available.Venue: Kenilworth GardensTime: 10.30amTown/City: Westc ... [Published Basildon Today - Apr 20 2013]
Entities: Westcliff-on-Sea
First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

School teachers ready for London Marathon

SCHOOL staff are gearing up to run the London Marathon this weekend.Three members of staff from Mayflower High School in Billericay are making their final preparations for the run on Sunday, 21 April.PE teacher Martin Bunyan, Head of Year 7 Kate Devlin, ... [Published Essex Enquirer - Apr 17 2013]
First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

Driver and cyclist killed in crash

A driver and a cyclist have died following a crash on the A1065 in Norfolk.A 31-year-old woman cyclist from Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex died in Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, on Saturday.She was critically injured in a collision with a Micra car at ... [Published BBC - Apr 15 2013]
First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

London's dash to 'toilet restaurants'

When the first toilet-themed restaurant, Modern Toilet , opened in Taipei in 2004, public reaction was mixed.Was it weird, funny or just plain unsavory?Whatever the answer, the concept’s popularity quickly became obvious -- the chain now has successful ... [Published CNNGo - Apr 15 2013]
First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

Microlight pilot died in sky fall

An experienced pilot was killed in a fall from the sky above France during a microlight flight from Southend to Barcelona, an inquest heard.The body of Stephen Sebastian, 52, of Westcliff-on-Sea, was found by a farmer near Montpellier in September 20 ... [Published BBC - Apr 10 2013]
First reported Apr 05 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

Corrections and clarifications

| Burt's reading scheme• An article about the libel reform bill suggested that a case in February 2013 – in which an Ethiopian billionaire took a fellow Ethiopian, Elias Kifle, who lives in the US, to court in London and was awarded £180,000 against him ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 05 2013]
Entities: Libel, Child Benefits, SPELT

Quotes

...Floud argued that the educability of children "is determined by the subtle interaction of the social influences of home and school" . Education, Economy, and Society: A Reader in the Sociology of Education (1961, with Halsey and C Arnold Anderson) followed, which established Floud...
"I remember him well. I was in my teens when he died. I wish I'd asked him about the war. But people didn't talk about it. He was a waterworks inspector and worked for the Southend Waterworks Company. He died of lung cancer. I think he was gassed during the war."
"I remember him well. I was in my teens when he died," she said. "I wish I'd asked him about the war. But people didn't talk about it."
...That was incorrect. In his judgment on that case, Mr Justice Eady said: "This case is not an example of so-called 'libel tourism'" ( Lords 'hijack' places libel reform bill at risk , 6 March, page 15)

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Jean Floud: Sociologist whose work revealed the... [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]
Has the universe got a top and bottom? [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 15 2013]
BRANSTORE LIMITED [Published London Gazette - May 07 2013]
Jean Floud [Published Telegraph - Apr 30 2013]
Winding-Up Orders SOLUTION BUILDING SERVICES LI... [Published London Gazette - Apr 30 2013]
Weird stories - late delivery [Published Lancashire Evening Post - Apr 30 2013]
PoW’s card home resurfaces [Published Yorkshire Post - Apr 30 2013]
WWI PoW’s 1918 postcard surfaces [Published The Gulf Today - Apr 30 2013]
Lost WW1 PoW's postcard rediscovered [Published BFBS Gibraltar - Apr 29 2013]
First World War 'postcard' revealed [Published Shropshire Star - Apr 29 2013]
'I am a prisoner of war' card found [Published BBC - Apr 29 2013]
FOOTSTEPS SUPPORTED LIVING LIMITED [Published London Gazette - Apr 22 2013]
CRAFT AND VINTAGE FAIR [Published Basildon Today - Apr 20 2013]
Resolutions for Winding-up E.K. MECHANICAL SERV... [Published London Gazette - Apr 19 2013]
School teachers ready for London Marathon [Published Essex Enquirer - Apr 17 2013]
Driver and cyclist killed in crash [Published BBC - Apr 15 2013]
London's dash to 'toilet restaurants' [Published CNNGo - Apr 15 2013]
Microlight pilot died in sky fall [Published BBC - Apr 10 2013]
Corrections and clarifications [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 05 2013]
Cult musician Wilko Johnson ‘so alive’ as death... [Published The Malaysian Insider - Feb 04 2013]
Wilko Johnson, 'Game Of Thrones' Actor With Ter... [Published The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - Feb 04 2013]
Biography for John Hutton [Published Silobreaker - Jun 09 2009]
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