Hamilton manager Martin Canning after Friday night’s defeat to Celtic admitted his team had stood off Celtic in the first-half, given them too much room to play, they’d done better in second half, but they were outclassed. Ditto here. Celtic were outclassed. The odds for both teams were roughly the same. Hamilton to win around 12/1. Celtic to win 12/1. The bookies are rarely wrong. It was all so easy for PSG at Parkhead last night. Barcelona...

Some things are as predictable as a blind man waving a white stick. Ranger’s supporters are saying what they say every year when Celtic make £30 or £40 million from the Champions League and they can’t make progress against a team called Progres who are fourth best in the a Luxembourg league, which is the equivalent of the Scottish First or Second Division, and you’d think that would shut them up, but it angers them even more and they cry Celtic...

Its amazing isn't it how the week repeats itself.

Marina H. Smith in the Introduction to the 46 Jews published here, who survived the Holocaust, tells the reader: ‘Every life is different. Every story is different too.’ That is true of us all, but there is a pattern of before and after. The survivors are young, middle or upper-class adolescents, some of them younger children, when the Nazis came to power and swept through Europe, when transport to the East meant certain death in Concentration...

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 08 Sep 2017 It's been back to school for many this week - but at last it's the weekend! Put your feet up and have a bumper read of all of the great pieces this week. Kick start your reading binge with our emotional story of the week from Jewel Serpent. It will keep you gripped to its perfect end. https://www.abctales.com/story/jewel-serpent/little-longer Then follow-up with another gripping piece from Ralph. Here...

It's been back to school for many this week - but at last it's the weekend! Put your feet up and have a bumper read of all of the great pieces this week. Kick start your reading binge with our emotional story of the week from Jewel Serpent. It will keep you gripped to its perfect end. https://www.abctales.com/story/jewel-serpent/little-longer Then follow-up with another gripping piece from Ralph. Here we see how poetry can be the perfect form...

Dancing girl - and a day's news round up, on a quiet day!

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August Picks very kindly provided by Parsonthru: Pick of the month August 2017 Thanks for the opportunity to select Pick of the Month for August. Each time I’ve been given the honour of doing this, the task becomes harder – the quality of work on the site goes on improving. I’ve re-read and agonised over the candidates listed below. In the end, though, TJW’s account of the world of combat and fatboy74’s wonderful encapsulation of a fleeting...

Saturday evening onwards I was back in Norwich by around 17:00 hours and shot around the shops to collect filtered milk and other such goodies. I was worn out yet content. I decided to catch the bus and get off near to Tesco's about half way home. I hadn't found any filtered milk. As I neared the bus stop I stopped to rest, and some young men, square and fit, moved up the path. One sprawled out, open, legs apart on a street bench. Possibly a...