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The News Quiz Is Back. Hurrah!


Great news – the smug, self-satisfied Now Show steps aside and in its place Radio 4′s “News Quiz” returns tonight; Friday May 1st at 6.30pm (repeated Saturday at 12.30pm) – its superbly skewed weekly take on the world returning for an almost unbelievable *68th* series…
Sandi Toksvig chairs, and panellists include Andy Hamilton, Fred MacAulay and Jeremy Hardy.
There should be plenty to poke fun at…
If you don’t catch it on the radio, then don’t forget you can subscribe to it as a podcast on iTunes.

Eakring, Nottinghamshire – Approach With Caution


From the Minutes of Eakring Parish Council, Nottinghamshire…

ANY OTHER BUSINESS:

1 – Another parishioner wished to know if the problems with the telephone directories had been solved yet.

2 – Mr Neal said a parishioner had drawn his attention to overhanging foliage on the pavement on Main Street between Wellow Road junction and the old school.
Clerk to contact Highways Department.

3 – The missile launcher parked on Kirklington Road has caused comments from a number of parishioners.
Clerk to contact Highways Department…

The News Quiz Is Back


Radio 4′s excellent News Quiz returns after its summer break tomorrow night at 6.30
As well as listening live (or to the Saturday repeat) it’s also available as a podcast from iTunes.

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In short, my name's Gareth and I'm the Director of VROOM MEDIA Ltd. I'm a designer, writer, musician and MotoGP nut. I'm a shameless fanboy for Alvaro Bautista & Apple. I go moist over Spanish band El Canto Del Loco, and I'm a total Mac geek. This blog is an ongoing journal of random notes, thoughts and bits of stuff...
...And things.

You can email me here: Clicky Clicky...

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The Rain Dogs

The latest recordings by my solo music project, The Rain Dogs. These are tracks I'm pulling together over a period of time - some old and some new - and just putting out online for sharing.

only a part not the whole
trust in the you of now
in transit

Smallcreep

My 'formerly industrial' band with my mate Rob. We grew out of wanting to be another NIN some time back and have developed into a far more interesting, singular, challenging and fun. With Rob's emigration to the USA, our way of working and creating was fundamentally altered, but we continued to push the boundaries of possible musics as we always have. Rob's return holds promise to pick things up some more - to develop more ideas, sketchpads, rhythms and approaches to keep us on the cutting edge - and maybe a refreshed approach which might even see us revisit and complete our unfinished masterpiece "BACKLASH". Yeah, right...

Rivercity

Fifteen minutes into the future, a hot, dry summer in Hull: Coates, a researcher and investigator, is hired to trace the whereabouts of missing adolescent Dominic Russell.
Is he the latest in a number of gruesome blood-letting murders attributed to the city’s “Marginals” that exist somewhere in the underbelly of the population?
That’s what the Police say, but it’s not what the boy’s mother believes - and as Coates digs deeper into that underbelly he discovers that Dominic’s disappearance is just a tiny part of a much bigger story: one that will bring his world crashing down and endanger all those around him...

Rivercity is a book that can be read at many levels, weaving a main plot - a clear homage to the “noir” detective genre - with a vampire story and a myriad of strands about perception and reality, human nature, signs, superstitions, the histroy of Hull, aesthetics, the occult and political expediency. Above all it's a novel about philosophy and the nature of truth and knowledge in the electronic age.

Rivercity is now available to purchase online: Click here for info...