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Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
‘Rest easy': Hart Co. deputies mourn loss of retired K-9
HART COUNTY, Ga. (WSPA) — The Hart County Sheriff's Office announced the passing of a retired K-9 who worked with deputies for to deputies, K-9 Sena served the sheriff's office with her handler, Sgt. Steve Williams. 'Throughout her years of dedicated service, she demonstrated unwavering loyalty, exceptional skill, and a deep commitment to protecting our community,' officials said. 'Rest easy, K9 Sena. We've got it from here.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Advertiser
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Oysters: saltily sublime or the ocean's slimy stomach-turners?
New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease. New books sampled this week include the Australian murder mysteries Vanish, by Shelley Burr, and The Empress Murders, by Toby Schmitz. Andreas Ammer. Greystone Books. $39.99. Once a cheap staple of the masses, no-longer-so-humble oysters are polarising. To some, they are saltily sublime. Those who don't understand them say unkinder things. And forget cheap. In some restaurants a single oyster can set you back six bucks! This delightful little book is a lyrical celebration of the biology, culture, art and taste of this magnificent mollusc. What it lacks in Antipodean references it makes up for in fascinating facts and oysterly illustrations. As Ammer says, few people now eat oysters solely to satisfy hunger. Consuming them, he writes, "constitutes a magical moment rather than a creaturely necessity". Find it at Amazon. Steve Williams and Evin Priest. HarperCollins. $34.99. Steve Williams caddied for golf legend Tiger Woods for 12 years. They were together through the highs of 13 majors wins and the lows of the spectacular implosion of Woods' marriage. Then, in 2011, their partnership ended abruptly, and messily, after Williams opted to carry Australian golfer Adam Scott's bag while Woods was out injured. The pair would not speak again until 2023. Williams has teamed up with journalist Evin Priest to tell the story of one of golf's best-known duos, covering on-course triumphs such as Woods' victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open and behind-the-scenes interactions. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Alexis Vassiley. Monash University Publishing. $39.99. Striking Ore tells the story of the rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara's iron ore mines. During the 1970s workers in the Pilbara were among the most bellicose in Australia, winning considerable gains and outdoing even their coalmine comrades with a "strike first, negotiate later" approach. Over time, however, the workforce has become almost completely deunionised. Labour historian and industrial relations scholar Alexis Vassiley explores how a "well-organised and militant movement" was comprehensively defeated, and what the consequences have been. Vassiley describes the Pilbara as an extreme case study of what has happened with unionism in Australia. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Toby Walsh. Black Inc. $27.99. Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of NSW and chief scientist at its new AI institute, In the latest in the Shortest History series, he opens by introducing us to characters in the journey of AI from idea to transformational reality, beginning with mathematician Alan Turing, who asked: "Can machines think?"; Charles Babbage, inventor of the Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter and the first computer programmer. Walsh distils AI into six concise and accessible ideas designed to equip readers to understand where AI has been and where it is headed. Find it at Angus & Robertson or Amazon. Shelley Burr. Hachette. $34.99. Shelley Burr grew up on Newcastle's beaches, her grandparents' property in Glenrowan and on the road between the two. The Canberra-based author's noir thrillers are steeped in Aussie landscapes and characters. In her follow-up to Wake (2022) and Ripper (2024) her flawed sleuth Lane Holland is out on parole. He can never work again as a private investigator but the unsolved disappearance of Matilda Carver 20 years ago still haunts him. So, he follows a lead to an isolated farm community run by Samuel Karpathy, who promises lost souls the chance to find meaning. Is it a commune or a cult - or something more sinister? Find it at Amazon, Big W, QBD Books or Target. Tasma Walton. Bundyi. $34.99. In 1833 a young woman called Nannertgarrook was abducted by sealers from the shores of Boonwurrung country on what is now Victoria's Port Phillip Bay. Along with other kidnapped girls and women destined to be sold into slavery, she was taken to King Island, north-west of Tasmania, then South Australia's Kangaroo Island and eventually to Bald Island, off the coast of Albany in Western Australia. Tasma Walton, the actress best known for Mystery Road and Blue Heelers, was born in coastal Geraldton in WA and has been researching her ancestor Nannertgarrook for 20 years. The result is this heartfelt story of indigenous pain and survival. Find it at Big W or Amazon. Fleur McDonald. HarperCollins. $34.99. When a professional scandal forces investigative reporter Zara Ellison to retreat to the wild west mining town of Kalgoorlie in search of a fresh start, her questions for the local newspaper, The Prospector, about a horror highway accident involving a pair of grey nomads reveal dark and dangerous secrets buried deep under the swirling red dust. As her ex-detective partner Jack tries to find his feet back in uniform policing this new lawless beat, Zara begins digging for her own kind of gold. But will she find redemption or trouble? This is the 25th outback crime novel by Esperance author Fleur McDonald. You can read Chapter One here. Find it at Amazon, QBD Books or Big W. Tony Schmitz. Allen & Unwin. $32.99. The debut novel by stage and screen actor Toby Schmitz (last seen in Boy Swallows Universe) is based on a 2013 stage play he wrote. Described as witty and tense, it's an ocean-going whodunnit set in 1925 aboard the luxury liner Empress of Australia on its regular Atlantic crossing to New York. When a Bengali deckhand is found brutally murdered, Inspector Archie Daniels resolves to reveal the killer. But as more and more bodies pile up, from the filthy rich and mostly vile first-class passengers as well as the lower classes below deck, no one is safe and no one can escape. Find it at QBD Books, Amazon or Big W. You can also find these and other great books at Apple Books and on Kobo. Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest books content with ease.
Perth Now
01-05-2025
- Health
- Perth Now
You Have 6 Months: WA author's brave battle with cancer
June Williams has written a book called You Have 6 Months. It's about her journey with Stage IV lung cancer and, she assures the Advertiser, it's a positive tale even though she's not sure how it's going to end. A lover of thriller novels, the conclusion of this one is a cliffhanger. She has just turned 61 and already outlived the six-month prognosis, for it's now four years since her world was turned upside down. 'I left it there because I don't know what the future holds,' she said. She finished it recently, while in a state the medics call 'stable disease', and feels relatively healthy. She says 'relatively' because although she looks fit and well her medication has uncomfortable side effects, including numbness in her toes and uveitis, a nasty eye inflammation. Steve Williams and June Williams at their Kojonup farm. Credit: Steve Williams 'I'm also on high doses of steroids so I'm completely hyper,' she said. 'My husband has told me I have to stop renovating.' Husband Steve has been a representative for WFI in Katanning since 1986 and the couple bought their Kojonup farm in 2007 where they run sheep and grow canola and wheat. As a non-smoker, Mrs Williams' diagnosis came as a complete shock. She thought she had a persistent stitch until she collapsed and was flown from the farm to Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth. She was given chemotherapy and immunotherapy, which didn't work and had huge side effects, so she started doing her own research and looking for a clinical trial. That she succeeded is testament to her tenacity and her stamina. 'I thought I had found one, but I was devastated when I was told I didn't meet the parameters,' she said. June Williams has written Six Months to Live which details her journey with stage 4 lung cancer. Credit: June Williams 'Then I got a call in the middle of the night to say there was a genome trial in WA which I could join and that's what I did. 'If I'd continued with the chemo I would be dead because it was a really bad treatment for the cancer I had,' she said. 'I didn't want to be a whiny patient but I've found you have to be a squeaky wheel to get anywhere at all.' With a Federal election campaign in full swing, Mrs Williams' is a topical case study for the debate on rural medical services. 'When I collapsed there was no doctor in the local hospital and I was dealing with a paramedic over the phone,' she said. 'Fortunately, the (Royal) Flying Doctor Service was fantastic but I'm not sure if people really understand how difficult it can be in a remote location.' The book came about because she wanted to help people who might be in a similar situation and to encourage them to speak up. 'I want people to be an advocate for themselves, to ask questions and to keep asking questions,' she said. 'I focused on getting on this trial and I know that if I had done nothing, just sat and wallowed, I wouldn't be here.' Writing the book was easy, as she has always loved reading, starting with Enid Blyton as a child and moving on to the crime and mystery works of Anne Cleeves and Minette Walters. 'I just vacillated between a biography or a cancer story but I knew I wanted it to be something someone could pick up in a waiting room or before a flight,' she said. 'It's about encouraging others to understand you can live with cancer and it doesn't have to be a death sentence.' Part of her rationale was to put down for posterity how much her family and friends mean to her. 'I wanted to put things in perspective,' she said. Steve Williams and June Williams. Credit: June Williams 'I wanted to do it for family and friends so they could see what they have done for me. 'They have been marvellous.' She may not know about the long term but the short term involves a trip to Hawaii and a European family cruise is at the planning stage. Her latest scan showed no change in her cancer from 2021 which she said had 'shrunk and stabilised'. There may not be a cure but Mrs Williams shows you can live with it and write your own endings. The book can be found in hard copy at the Donnybooks and Gift store in Donnybrook, or online, with all proceeds going to the Council Council WA and the Perkins Institute.
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
War memorial restored in time for VE Day events
Work is being carried out to help restore a town's war memorial in time for the 80th anniversary of VE Day on 8 May. The restoration efforts at Astley Park in Chorley, Lancashire, will help preserve the names of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in conflicts around the world. Some names on the Portland Limestone panels have become faded and difficult to read in recent years. Chorley Council has worked together with a local stonemason and a historian, Chorley Remembers project manager Steve Williams. The restoration work will see all 15 stone panels being replaced. Mr Williams said: "We must never forget the service and sacrifice of those named on the memorial. "The work on the memorial, with the names highlighted in gold letters, will ensure that the fallen will be on display for many more years to come." Gayle Wootton, head of property and planning at Chorley Council, said: "Adding the names of these brave service personnel to the newly restored civic war memorial is a poignant moment for our community." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer. Chorley Borough Council
BBC News
05-04-2025
- General
- BBC News
Chorley war memorial to be restored for VE Day 80th anniversary
Work is being carried out to help restore a town's war memorial in time for the 80th anniversary of VE Day on 8 restoration efforts at Astley Park in Chorley, Lancashire, will help preserve the names of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in conflicts around the names on the Portland Limestone panels have become faded and difficult to read in recent Council has worked together with a local stonemason and a historian, Chorley Remembers project manager Steve Williams. The restoration work will see all 15 stone panels being Williams said: "We must never forget the service and sacrifice of those named on the memorial. "The work on the memorial, with the names highlighted in gold letters, will ensure that the fallen will be on display for many more years to come."Gayle Wootton, head of property and planning at Chorley Council, said: "Adding the names of these brave service personnel to the newly restored civic war memorial is a poignant moment for our community." Listen to the best of BBC Radio Lancashire on Sounds and follow BBC Lancashire on Facebook, X and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
