On May 14, 2008 Raleigh (3 weeks old) got his first trim from Bethany Polston. Raleigh was quite patient-with a little encouragement from his mom, the steady hand of Josh Chagnon and the watchful eye of Bethany's dog.
Children's laureate Michael Rosen has stepped up his mission to put the pleasure back into reading by creating a prize for the funniest children's books. The Roald Dahl prize, which will be administered by the charity Booktrust, is said to
After the Great Russian Shakeup this past Monday, pundits and analysts added up the personnel scores in the Clan War tournament, and came to pretty much the same happy conclusions: the "liberals" won out; the siloviki lost; the Clan War
Well over 100 Sandgate residents attended the Sandgate Town Meeting at Sandgate Library on Tuesday evening to call for a referendum on changing Sandgate back from a "Town" administration to a "Parish" one. The referendum was agreed after a huge
Sandgate residents are questioning the validity of the vote taken at the Sandgate Town Council AGM on Tuesday evening that saw Geoffrey Boot become elected as Sandgate Mayor.
Commenting on the Chancellor's plans to compensate low paid workers who lost out when the 10p income tax rate was abolished, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, Vince Cable said "This Government's tax policy has descended into a complete farce."
Government departments are failing to reduce unnecessary travel or investigate green alternatives to air travel. The Tandberg report, published today, found departments are failing to adequately record travel and rarely ask civil servants to justify their journeys, for example by
Liberal Democrat Leader, Nick Clegg has praised the party's strong performance in the local elections. He said "Against the predictions of most pundits, we have successfully defended the record number of council seats that we won in 2004 - the
Prepare for the day that we transfer money as easily as sending a text message, pay for products by placing a card next to a sensor and only see cheques in a museum.
Is your cat writing his memoirs? It might explain those cold stares. One day you will be passing Waterstone's and you'll see a tremendous window display with his photograph and copies of a book entitled Blackie: My Lives So Far.
Search is the defining issue of digital publishing. It is as critical to the success of an online publication as WH Smith is to magazine retailers, and it represents the task-oriented nature of the web, very different from the laid-back,
The Prime Minister has issued a seminal statement indicating he would be presenting Britain with £2.7bn worth of tax cuts.This comes after Mr. Brown's...
Random House has acquired the craft, photography and reference publisher Watson-Guptill Publications from Nielsen Business Media (formerly VNU). The sale follows Nielsen's recent moves to get away from its book publishing-focused businesses. In a statement, Greg Farrar, president of Nielsen
Reading to young children stimulates their development and gives them a head start when they reach school, according to researchers who have reviewed studies on the effects of reading. Apart from helping their reading, sharing a bedtime story with a
Wikipedia got a new rival on Tuesday, when the French publisher Larousse introduced an online French-language encyclopedia inviting users to contribute content and offering free access to its dictionary, Agence France-Presse reported. But larousse.fr said its contributors, unlike Wikipedia's, would
Next month, Waterstone's is hoping to work something of the same abracadabra on behalf of English PEN and Dyslexia Action. A clutch of authors - including Sebastian Faulks, Doris Lessing, JK Rowling (is it rash to think this one will
They are petty, shabby and shallow, and tell us nothing about the real workings of government. No wonder the latest crop of backbiting political memoirs - from Cherie Blair, Lord Levy and John Prescott - make such compelling reading. But
Mark Coker, founder of a Silicon Valley public-relations firm that specializes in working with startups, says he started Smashwords.com as a way of trying to help authors deal with the realities of life online. An author himself - of a
