Category: HISTORY
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STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT – drinking with two Americans we met in a bar on a stopover in Amsterdam en route to Berlin 1984 By HILARY GAVIN SO Easter came and went and it’s almost a fortnight now since I posted my last Facebook round-up on my WordPress blog. Much of my past two weeks…
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By HILARY GAVIN I CAN HARDLY believe another week has flown by and I’m sharing my regular Facebook news round-up with you again. Of course, you can either click through to my Facebook posts below or visit my Hilary Gavin’s Local Reporting Commentary page on Meta where you can easily scroll through them in one…
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1384558033141754 By HILARY GAVIN THIS is simply a brief WordPress blog to introduce you to my Facebook commentary site as there’s a break in the weather and I’m keen to get outside in my back garden. As you can see I’ve posted a link to this Facebook page beneath the screengrab of it so you…
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PIC: The schoolchildren at East Marden with my Nan Mrs Davies on the right-hand side and my late Mum in the centre looking rather mischievous. Please see my post-script to this blog. By HILARY GAVIN WHEN our late Mum Enid Gavin died ten years ago my sister penned the most moving eulogy for her funeral…
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By HILARY GAVIN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567727942481 IF YOU’D asked me whether I’d ever dream of going back online to face the gauntlet of social media as a journalist a few years ago – I’d have confidently told you: “Not on your Nelly.” There’s no doubt that Facebook, and other social media sites, are cesspits of bad language…
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By HILARY GAVIN I’M SORRY to say but I doubt that many of our youngsters living in our divisive po-faced nation today are aware that the British were once renowed worldwide for their legendary sense of humour. In fact, I’m certain that some people who stumble upon this blog post of mine nowadays will take…
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By HILARY GAVIN LAST WEEK I posted a Facebook message for my friends to read after discovering that the author, former BBC journalist and MI6 self-confessed Cold war “asset”, Frederick Forsyth had sadly passed away earlier this month in his early eighties. Now, if you don’t recognise Freddie Forsyth by name, you’ve probably heard of…