Last to go in round one, the combination produced an immaculate clear round - then repeated that feat during an absorbing seven horse jump-off.

The University of Bath mechanical engineering student will be taking part in the Mongol Rally, which starts this week.

The challenge is to drive to Mongolia in a car which has an engine size smaller than one litre.

Tim, who will be embarking on the challenge with his friend Andrew Whyte, who also studies mechanical engineering at the university, hopes to raise at least Pounds 1,200.

The money will go towards the Christina Noble Children's Foundation - a charity that supports disadvantaged children in the country. He said: "When we arrive we will have the opportunity to meet some of the staff and kids so we can see results of the cheap_Monogram Glace_shop_usa_uk_72 work that goes on."

The pair said they were looking forward to doing something different this summer but were apprehensive about the adventure.

Tim, who lives in London Road, said: "I am looking forward to this character-building trip but I also have a gentle uneasiness ." They will be travelling through Bosnia, Turkey, Russia and Kazakhstan to reach Mongolia.

He added: "These are countries that shouldn't be taken so lightly."

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The flagship store of the SouthGate development will open on September 2 and a team of six visual merchandise experts from Debenhams are already busy decking it out, adjusting a shelf here and a mannequin arm there.

The ceramic floors are gleaming and the building contractors, Simons Construction, are scheduled to hand over the keys on August 12.

Then it will be all hands to the pump for the department store's staff. Twenty 40ft trucks carrying 200,000 items of stock will arrive before the opening - including 35,000 bras.

There are plenty of features that suggest this store will be far from your run-of-the-mill retailer.

Its free personal shopper section has its own suite of dressing rooms complete with huge mirrors, while the adjoining customer service area has its own bureau de change.

The lighting in the store's long changing rooms is activated by sensors, enhancing the feel of luxury.

Spread over four floors, there is 85,000 sq ft of trading space, with an additional two floors of office and stock room beneath.

Cosmetics, fragrances and women's accessories are among accessories are among the departments on the ground floor, while the first is dedicated to women's wear and lingerie. Branding for Jacques Vert, Wallis, Phase Eight and Mantaray is already poking out from behind protective screens.

Men's and children's clothing dominate the second floor while the top level features homeware and a 95-seat restaurant with striking purple and green furnishings. Contemporary images of Bath adorn the walls.

Senior store manager Robert Gough is both excited and confident four weeks ahead of the grand opening.

"We have been looking for a store in Bath for more than 20 years and until now we could never find the right location - we wanted to do the offer properly," he said.

"The countdown is on and with less than a month to go your feet don't touch the ground from here on in.

"It's an exhilarating experience transforming an empty white shell into a fantastic new store. I can't wait to get the doors open.

"Over the next four replica Jimmy Choo Handbags weeks every piece of stock will come in. It's amazing what can be achieved with the team all pulling together. I'm confident we'll have a really beautifullooking store.

"We are hoping to get some really special people to open it, but that's all I can say at the moment."

The Bath store has created more than 200 new jobs for the city, with up to ten per cent of the positions being given to the long- term unemployed. And more vacancies could be on the horizon.

Mr Gough said: "If the store does particularly well then we will bring more staff in. I'm confident we will do well."

He believes the Pounds 360 million SouthGate shopping development is the ideal location for Debenhams' long-awaited arrival in Bath.

He said: "If you compare this with the old So
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Quantitative easing? Oops, sorry, much of the first wheelbarrow load of new-minted cash has disappeared abroad, to foreigners who jumped at the opportunity to offer their gilt holdings back to the Bank of England - while the Bank has been struggling to sell new gilts to investors perturbed by signs of a rift between the Governor and Downing Street.

No, on most fronts, things are more pearshaped than ever. But the successful policy I'm talking about is Gordon Brown's campaign to persuade us that it's better to vent our anger on bankers than on him. The first big breakthrough came last week, when the Edinburgh home and car of ex-Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred Goodwin (now said to be holed up in Majorca with his family, for fear of more attacks) suffered criminal damage. This week, the strategy has borne fruit beyond the Prime Minister's wildest hopes, with a cavalcade of anti-capitalist, anti-war and save-the-planet activists marching on the Bank of England, besieging dressed-down City workers in their Indianapolis-Colts locked offices, and no doubt trashing a few fast-food outlets as they pass.

Unintended outcomes are the overarching theme of the financial crisis, and this week's disruption of London is just one more: social disorder is perhaps the most frightening of all possible consequences of a severe recession, yet by signalling that banker-bashing is morally justified, Brown has actually managed to encourage it. Indeed, the extent to which he has got more than he wished for is matched only by the tragic extent to which he has promised more than he can deliver.

Expectations of a positive outcome from the G20 meeting have been managed downwards so vigorously that any agreement on anything - on taking the lid off some of the world's tax havens, for example - will be declared a triumph. But in truth the only green shoots the gathering is likely to fertilise this spring will be in the glazing and contract security sectors, and it will have been an extraordinarily tiresome couple of days for everyone else who struggles to make a living in the capital.

The question is not whether the G20 encounter, in the incongruous Excel Centre in Docklands, comes to be seen by historians as the event that set the world on the path to recovery - it might, but let's not get our hopes up. The more pertinent question today is whether its unintended symbolism of posturing leaders surrounded by howling anarchists jogs the public consciousness in a positive direction. By that I mean that if the whole thing descends into chaos, it might have the perverse effect of teaching us to forgive the financiers and even learn to love them again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a spot of youthful protest now and then - and I know bankers can be loathsome. As I always point out, I should know, I used to be one. What Brown has tapped into and let rip is a deep seam of banker-hating that can be traced in British popular culture from the 1930s when J.B. Priestley wrote about the City doing to the working classes 'what the black-moustached glossy gentleman in the old melodramas always did to the innocent maiden', through the 1980s when a chorus of traders chanted 'Do the f***ing business, do the f***ing business' in Caryl Churchill's play Serio
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Civic leaders in Bath & North East Somerset say people in the World Heritage city do not want to see cigarette ends, chewing gum and other litter in the streets.

They are distributing 700 campaign posters and letters to businesses encouraging them to play their part in the awareness campaign.

In second place it was Mhairi Inglis and third was Ishbel Inglis. In the boys' event, David Mercer romped home first, with Keiron Pringle second and Morgan Tait third.

In the senior ladies and under-17 girls' race a which makes it way from the putting green up to Whitehaugh and back down through Wilton Dean a it was Louise Mercer who claimed the spoils, winning in 23:06. In second it was Pam Paxton and third Sylvia Grieve. The under-17 boys' race was won by Keith Learmonth in a time of 23:17.

The senior men, who took on five miles of rugged countryside over the fields and down through Wilton Burn, were led home by Ian Williams in 46:54. Second in a time of 47:14 was club captain Raymond Jaffray, and in third it was Allan Inglis in 48:12. Special mention must go to Alan Coltman who completed his 19th Langheugh in Succession.

President Rob Halliday told the Hawick News: "It's a tough course and despite the cold conditions everything went LED downlights well. This used to be my favourite race because it flings everything at you: burns, fences and dykes. And I have always been led to believe it is the hardest cross-country in Scotland."

Club captain Raymond Jaffray, who took second place, added: "It was a good race and I really enjoyed. It's a hard race but the conditions weren't too bad once we got going and up onto the hills. Although it was pretty frosty so the ground was really rutty Best Lacoste Shoes Online and we had to watch our step.

"There were a few cut knees and legs from jumping over the fences sand walls but it was still good. There's no other cross-country race like it."

The next race for members is the club championships which will be held on Saturday, February 13. Regristration will be at the museum from 12.15pm, with the first race going off at 1pm. For more information contact Rob Halliday 376995.

Milestone: 01392 410999 WITHIN walking distance of the Quayside, this townhouse at Chandlers Walk, Haven Banks, Exeter, has been sold by Milestone off an asking price of Pounds 219,950. Accommodation includes three bedr ooms, two reception rooms, two bathrooms, and an integral garage.

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Bethel: Bethel Inn Resort, 9 p.m.

Bridgton: Gravel pit behind Stevens Brook Elementary School, 9:10 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Industry: Daigle Field, 9:15 p.m. (rain date, July 4)

Jay: Spruce Mountain Ski Area, 9 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Livermore: Barnyard on Route 108, 10 p.m. (rain date, July 4)

Oxford: Oxford Plains Speedway, 9: 15 p.m. (rain date, July 4)

Rangeley: Town Park, on shore of Rangeley Lake, 9:30 p.m. (rain date, July 4)

Wayne: Docks off point, off Wilson Pond Road, 9:15 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

July 4

Auburn-Lewiston: Longley Bridge, 9:30 p.m.

Carrabassett Valley: Airport on Route 27 behind Carrabassett Inn, 9:15 p.m.

Casco: Swim docks, 9 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Freeport: Morse Street School, 9:30 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Litchfield: 201 Norris Point Road, 9:15 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Mount Vernon: Docks in front of Camp Laurel, 8:30 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Naples: Raft on Long Lake, 9:15 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Winslow: Ft. Halifax Park, 9:15 p.m. (rain date, July 5)

Winthrop: Norcress Point Lake, Maranacook, 9 p.m.

July 5

Casco: Raft offshore Point Sebago Resort, 9:26 p.m. (rain date, July 6)

Norway: Oxford Fairgrounds (on the Norway property), 12:30 a.m.

July 7

Harrison: Barge on Crystal Lake, 9:15 p.m. (rain date, July 8)

July 9

Lisbon: Lisbon High School soccer field, 9:30 p.m. (rain date, July 10)

* Source: State Fire Marshal's Office

GET A LIFE - HEALTH

As a young child, I would beg my mother to let me mow the lawn. Ed Hardy Shirts I loved walking behind the push-mower, watching its blades turn and churn up the grass and hearing the rhythm as I walked up and down the yard My least favorite part was having to rake up the grass afterward

I don't think I've seen anyone mowing a lawn with a human- powered machine in years In fact, most of the push-mowers must be in antique stores awaiting someone who will buy them and turn them into lamps or clothes trees

What I see now are people sitting on a riding lawnmower with grass-catching capabilities This type of equipment was used by farmers to clear the "back 40" Now people are using it to mow a patch of grass the size of a postage stamp. (Omega). The noise these machines emit is somewhat analogous to a jet idling on a tarmac when you're trying to sleep in on the weekend

I'm not quite sure why this has become the new paradigm for lawn maintenance, but I'm sure one of the reasons is that it looks cool, just like running around town doing errands in a big truck does We seem to like big in this country, and fast, and we want to expedite and multitask, so we can get as much done as possible in one day If we can sit and do all our stuff, we're even happier

I think eventually we will simply not have to move at all Maybe our legs will turn into wheels After all, the evolutionary process has proven that when you don't use it, you lose it Unfortunately our need to expedite and all our technology has decreased our calorie expenditure

My grandmother washed most things by hand including the dishes, mopped or swept floors and walked everywhere She had incredible stamina and rarely if ever sat down to rest. (Patek Philippe). She always told me that she knew that eventually she would have an eternity to rest

My mother had the same mind set Gadgets were considered unnecessary A lot of her sense of self worth came from doing things that required a certain degree of physical and mental effort

Believe me, I'm not proposing that we go back to outhouses or washing our clothes down by the river But perhaps we might want to integrate some of our past into the present It just might be one of the answers to curbing the continuing rise of obesity

Author, humorist, PBS star and Fortune 500 trainer Loretta LaRoche lives in Plymouth To share your pet peeves, questions or comments, write to The Humor Potential, 50 Court St. luxury bags . (Technomarine). , Plymouth 02360, send e-mail to getalife@lorettalarochecom, visit the Web site at , or call toll-free 800-99-TADAH (82324)