What!!! How on earth did they work that out! 
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"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
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1958
Britain's most popular children's television programme 'Blue Peter' was first broadcast on BBC TV. The first presenters were Leila Williams and Christopher Trace.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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2012
Colin Farmer, aged 61 and a blind stroke victim said that he thought he was going to die when he was shot in the back in Chorley town centre with a 50,000-volt Taser stun gun fired by a police officer who mistook his white stick for a Samurai sword.
Good grief
“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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Oh my goodness what a thing to happen
Im not fat just 6ft too smallComment
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Gem - that was horrific. That poor man must have been terrified.
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
(Marianne Williamson)Comment
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2014
A flock of sheep was left feeling rather woolly-headed after accidentally munching on £4,000 worth of cannabis plants that had been dumped in their field, at the edge of Fanny’s Farm in Merstham, Surrey. By the time that the police arrived, much of the evidence had been eaten.
“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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I seem to remember them reeling about and staggering as though they were drunk."Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
(Marianne Williamson)Comment
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1914
Wartime licensing laws came into operation, premises having to close at 10 p.m.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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1854
Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses that she trained, were deployed to the Crimea, where the main British camp was based, fighting in the Crimean War. During her first winter at Scutari, ten times more soldiers died from illnesses such as typhus, typhoid, cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds. She had the sewers flushed and ventilation improved. Almost six months after her arrival death rates were sharply reduced.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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Forward thinking woman xIm not fat just 6ft too smallComment
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Florence Nightingale certainly lead the way for modern nursing.
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
(Marianne Williamson)Comment
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1986
The world’s youngest heart transplant patient, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby from north west London, was given the heart of a five-day-old Belgian boy by Professor Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex.
My DDs 1 and 2 were 8 and 10 at the time, and I think this was the first news item I remember them taking notice of.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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We have come a long way with heart transplants since then Gem
Thank god for clever Medical researchers and surgeons .Im not fat just 6ft too smallComment
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Thirty-five years ago - it doesn't seem possible, but as Oma says, huge improvements in transplant surgery."Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognise how good things really are. "
(Marianne Williamson)Comment
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2012
The switchover to digital television in the UK was complete when the analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland was turned off on Tuesday night at 23:30 BST. Simultaneously BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, launched on 23rd September 1974 took its final bow with a series of graphics on Ceefax's front page.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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