The UK’s largest port, by tonnage. Coal, soybeans, oil, gas, Tesco, cars: it takes in everything that keeps us going.
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Immingham
Posted on 19th January 2012
In a speech to the Metropolitan Sanitary Association 10 months before the launch of Bleak House, Charles Dickens declared his great mission as a reforming novelist: "I can ...
[17th January 2012]
I translated as best I could the transcript of the final phone call made to Captain Schettino, commander of the Costa Concordia, by Gregorio De Falco of Livorno ...
[3rd January 2012]
Look at this. No posts for a month and then three at once.
I am sometimes called eclectic. I wonder why. Then I see the list of search ...
[3rd January 2012]
Also, please remember that hostage-taking by Somali pirates is not, as is often said, a bloodless business. It can go wrong. Glen Forbes, who runs the excellent ...
[3rd January 2012]
Happy New Year! Apologies for my silence; I am trying to write my book and so neglecting this blog. But here, to salute a brand new year - ...