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euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
There is no standard date set for Mother’s Day around the world and next Sunday, May 11 sees it being celebrated in The Netherlands. Apart from chocolates or a meal out with the family, one of the most common Mother’s Day gifts is a bunch of flowers but many of those flowers, rather than being grown locally are imported from Africa or South America.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
As an immediate neighbour, Finland has in the past had a relatively close if sometimes problematic relationship with Russia but things are now changing. Aware of the need to be aligned with neighbours which are part of NATO, Finland is to invest an estimated initial €1.5 billion to change the gauge of the train track from that which is aligned with Russia to a narrower gauge based on that in place in Norway and Sweden.
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1 week ago | 
worksopguardian.co.uk | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA Worksop primary school is celebrating a successful latest Ofsted inspection – with the Government watchdog rating it ‘good across the board. Worksop Priory Acdemy, on Holles Street, is part of the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham Multi-Academy Trust and was decribed by inspectors as a ‘welcoming’ school.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
For those who lived near London Heathrow or Paris Charles de Gaulle airports there was a certain excitement looking up and spotting Concorde in the sky. It was the first commercial supersonic passenger aircraft, but whilst cramped and not that comfortable to travel in, there was the benefit of getting from Europe to the USA or Brazil in a much faster time than ever before.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Following a number of recent suspected terrorist activities in Germany, security continues to be very tight especially when apparently abandoned or suspect cars are involved. According to reports coming out of Finnish news group YLE, German police decided to cancel an event to be hosted by Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen who was due to deliver an address at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin on May 4.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Extreme running sees only the fittest of competitors take part in non-stop racing where they have to cover a 6.706 km loop every hour in no more than 60 minutes. Polish policeman Łukasz Wróbel who is known as Butterfly Legs (Motyla Noga) took part in a gruelling Backyard Ultra competition in Brussels which saw him running continuously for 116 hours and landing a new world record as he covered 777.896 km.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
It’s not just the Americans who have a problem with the popular Chinese owned App, TikTok as the Irish Data Protection Authority has just fined the company €530 million. After what it says are exhaustive investigations, it has concluded that the company has breached privacy rules after allegedly transferring European users’ personal data to China in breach of European Union rules.
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2 weeks ago | 
worksopguardian.co.uk | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA wanted shop thief has been jailed after being chased down and detained by officers in Worksop. Geoffrey Loverseed, aged 46, had been caught on CCTV as he stole laundry items and meat products from Tesco’s in Gatefold Road on April 16 and April 26. Loverseed, a prolific offender with multiple previous convictions, was spotted by an officer in Worksop on Saturday evening, and immediately fled.
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2 weeks ago | 
worksopguardian.co.uk | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA Worksop primary school has been described as ‘happy and caring’ by inspectors from Ofsted. St Anne’s Primary School on Harrington Street continues to be rated ‘good’ by the Government watchdog. In their report, inspectors said: “St Anne’s is a happy and caring school where leaders have high expectations for pupils, who achieve well.
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2 weeks ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Every country has its own form of bureaucracy and when you grow up, whether you realise it or not, you can often understand the rules and regulations. If you don’t, then you have every chance of being able to discover what’s required as you understand the language and the general way in which the rules work.
