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Second Shield semi-final rearranged (From Watford Observer) - Watford Observer
Remaining Watford Observer Fourteen14 competition dates
1:02pm Wednesday 4th July 2012 in Sport By Anthony Matthews
A new date has been confirmed for the Watford Observer Fourteen14 Shield semi-final between Watford Town A and West Herts after the game was cancelled on Monday due to bad weather.
The match is now scheduled to take place on Tuesday at Met Police Bushey – 24 hours after the other delayed semi-final between Langleybury A and Leverstock Green at Watford Town – and just two days before the rearranged final date at Chipperfield Clarendon.
With both Plate semi-finals also set to take place next week, competition organisers are hoping the weather finally relents to avoid any further delays to what has already been the most disrupted Watford Observer Fourteen14 cricket competitions for several years.
The remaining competition dates – weather permitting - in full are: Monday, July 9 – Shield semi-final: Langleybury A v Leverstock Green at Watford Town. Plate semi-final: Watford Grammar School for Boys v Aldenham at Chipperfield Clarendon.
Tuesday, July 10 – Shield semi-final: Watford Town A v West Herts at Met Police Bushey.
Wednesday, July 11 – Plate semi-final: Rickmansworth v Watford Town B at Abbots Langley.
Thursday, July 12 – Shield final at Chipperfield Clarendon.
Tuesday, July 17 – Plate final at Met Police Bushey.
All matches are due to start at 6.15pm.
Source: www.watfordobserver.co.uk
'Stressed' Bank of England official stabbed self to death - Daily Telegraph
Police launched a full-scale search and discovered the body early the following morning four miles from the family home in a car park at Herongate Athletic Football Club.
A note was found addressed to his wife, Sharon, with whom he lived at the family's home in Shenfield, Essex.
Coroner Mrs Caroline Beasley-Murray said there were no suspicious circumstances and recorded a verdict of suicide at an inquest held in Chelmsford, Essex.
She said: "It is patently clear from what Mr Dymond expressed in the note that he was suffering extreme anxiety about work-related matters."
Mr Dymond is believed to have been heavily involved in the transfer of responsibility and power for bank regulation from the Financial Services Authority to the Bank of England in the weeks leading up to his death in his role managing IT services.
His colleagues at the Bank of England released a tribute at the time of his death saying: "Chris Dymond was a highly valued colleague to all those that worked with him.
"He was extremely well known and a popular member of staff. He will be very much missed here at the bank. Our sympathies and thoughts are with his family at this difficult time."
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
'Only Way Is Essex's Joey Essex, Sam Faiers for 'Million Pound Drop' - Digital Spy
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Shipwright builds on past to save maritime future - The Guardian
BRIDGET MURPHY
Associated Press= ESSEX, Mass. (AP) — With a river basin view that mesmerizes, out-of-towners might miss the tree trunks stacked along the street by Harold Burnham's shipyard. But locals see these mounds of mostly white oak for what they are: the building blocks of the Massachusetts shipwright's dreams.
This is the raw stuff that makes its way from the street to the sea, helping Burnham keep afloat a wooden boatbuilding culture in a town known for constructing more two-masted wooden fishing schooners than anywhere else in the world.
Many see the 45-year-old Burnham as a master of a dying art. The Essex-born shipwright uses locally harvested wood and hand tools to build schooners at Burnham Boat Building with a modern adaptation of the same techniques builders used on this waterfront land in Colonial times.
Burnham recently captured recognition by winning one of nine $25,000 heritage fellowships the National Endowment for the Arts awards annually. The prize is meant to pay tribute to his craftsmanship and mission to preserve a part of American culture for future generations.
"This craft is so tied to place, in a way it's reconnected a town with its shipbuilding heritage that's sort of been lost," said Maggie Holtzberg, who manages the folk arts and heritage program for Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Burnham is the 28th member of his extended family to run a shipyard in Essex since the town incorporated in 1819, a tradition he can trace back 11 generations on the same land.
"It's as if he was born and had to do this," said Molly Bolster, who runs the New Hampshire maritime nonprofit Gundalow Company.
Burnham sees wooden boatbuilding not as family history, but as a local culture he helps perpetuate with local resources. Any wood that doesn't go toward boat construction fuels stoves that heat the yard's lofting shop — and the house on the same land where Burnham lives with his family.
The father of two went to school at Massachusetts Maritime Academy, working as a merchant mariner on commercial ships and building wooden boats when he was onshore, before giving his current occupation a go full-time in the 1990s.
He got a boost in 1996, when someone hired him to build a 65-foot vessel. Then 29 years old, Burnham built Thomas E. Lannon, which nowadays takes schoolchildren on sailing charters out of the fishing town of Gloucester.
Burnham counts each of his six schooners as a triumph and credits his community for helping him preserve his town's maritime culture. He said his pursuit is really about keeping the art form going with the hope it won't end with him.
"It's been extremely difficult to have even built six," Burnham said. "But what I'm proud of, they all worked and they've been extremely well loved and taken care of by their owners."
Friends pitch in during construction phases, and thousands of locals show up when a craft creaks its way down greased slabs to splash into the water for the first time.
"He's not afraid to call his boats beautiful, because it's not just his work," said Tom Ellis, who commissioned Thomas E. Lannon. "It's the community's and everyone who came before him."
Burnham mills the wood he uses at the shipyard, preparing piles for the next schooner order he's always hoping will come in. When one does, Burnham designs, engineers, and constructs the vessel before he and his team launch it into the creek just off the Essex River.
Last year, he tried something new by building a boat for himself. The shipwright said he was going slowly broke at the time, but friends, family and community members kicked in materials and labor to get the 45-ton vessel built.
Now Burnham's captaining that 58-foot schooner Ardelle on summer charters from a dock behind a maritime heritage center in Gloucester.
"With every boat, his reputation builds and it's not just that he's a throwback to the olden days," said Justin Demetri, a historian at Essex Shipbuilding Museum across the creek from Burnham's shipyard. "One man is almost encapsulating my whole museum."
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Sussex runners and walkers carry Olympic flame on one of its final journeys - Lewes Today
THE eyes of the world will be on Sussex later this month when runners and walkers carry the Olympic torch on one of the final stages of its journey.
Lined up to take part in Crowborough on July 17 is Lorraine Mercer, 51 from Haywards Heath. Lorraine was a thalidomide baby, has no proper limbs and was not expected to live when she was born. However her sheer strength of mind has carried her thorugh solo swimathons, fundraising for the RDA, craft and lacework making for charity, winning a Blue Peter badge and winning the RDA dressage silver cup. She was also a winner of a Young Artist award for mouthpainting. Lorraine will be in her specially adapted wheelchair and Wealden District Council has made their Pine Grove HQ available as a ‘base camp’ for her.
Also in Crowborough, mum of two Jo Rout, 36 who won two Paralympic swimming gold medals in South Korea at the age of 12. She was born without a left hand but wanted to prove herself and after her Paralympic wins she joined Beacon Swimming Club as a coach. Ben Stevens, former pupil at Five Ashes Primary School and Beacon Community College coaches lifesavers at the swimming club and studies at Brighton University.
Famous Framfield battler, Bazza West who is confined to a wheelchair after breaking his neck when he swerved to avoid a badger in the road, will grace the streets of Rye with the Olympic torch. Bazza will also take climb Mount Snowdon for charity Back Up. In May this year his mouth paintings were exhibited in public for the first time in Maresfield. Ian Noble from Uckfield will be a torchcarrier in Hastings.
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