For the Avenue of the Volcanoes, that was £2,500.Ours was a varied group. We ranged from the gung-ho Herefordshire farmer Bruce to the tireless, very fit Elaine, through several of us in our late forties and one couple, Ali and Colin, in their fifties. The unfortunate Cheryl suffered dreadfully from altitude sickness from the start, [...]

“You’re too old!” we chorused, but this was more to punish him for taking us to Padstow that time without telling us you had to book first. We ended up going to Fowey, about 10 miles west of Clipper, and found an aquarium instead This turned out to be home to a rather monstrous octopus. [...]

One of Paul’s six stunning penalties came from five metres inside his own half while Deacon’s third one-pointer was a towering 40-metre effort.”Henry was fantastic and it’s all down to practice,” the Bradford coach Brian Noble said “He practises every day. We talked about knocking points off every time we got to that part of [...]

The tie – abandoned after 49 minutes because of fog last Tuesday – will now be played this Saturday at 3pm.”It got to the stage where there was too much surface water on the pitch,” Cuthbert said. “The rain was going to continue for another couple of hours – if it had stopped at 7pm [...]

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Morales took the verdict, but many observers thought Barrera was unlucky to lose. Since then Barrera has successfully retained his WBO super-bantamweight crown three times.The 26-year-old Hamed, who is unbeaten in 35 fights, first boxed in the United States in December 1997, when he stopped Kevin Kelley in the fourth round at New York’s Madison [...]

In its first week of release, the record sold a pitiful 729 copies.Six months after Creation’s closure, McGee is, according to his friends, more “vibed-up” than he has been for years, unencumbered by either corporate pressure or the need to affect the respectable airs of a government insider His first child is expected next month. [...]

“I call upon the Bank to continue conducting appropriate and flexible operations.”Later, Yoshitaka Murata, the vice finance minister, revealed that representatives from the finance and economic planning ministries at the BoJ meeting had exercised their right to ask the board to delay the decision.Mr Hayami told reporters he wished he had raised interest rates earlier [...]

Judging by three recent novels, an ill wind is afflicting academia’s ancien régime. Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and JM Coetzee have all portrayed prominent intellectuals in decline, one brought low by disease (in Bellow’s Ravelstein) the other two by scandal (in Coetzee’s Disgrace and Roth’s The Human Stain). Bellow and Roth venerate their deceased subjects; [...]

Hrbaty, like Agassi on Thursday, doubled-faulted on the final point. If you could pick a player to meet on clay the day after eliminating Andre Agassi, it would not be Alex Corretja. Unfortunately for Dominik Hrbaty, he did not have a choice, and was defeated by the Spaniard in the quarter-finals of the Italian Open, [...]

Each of them already has a successful career, or two, or three – and when they tell you they don’t expect to make any money, you feel relieved, because you know they won’t, at least not yet. This is part-time publishing for the love of it: as Karen Wright says, “We’ll just see what happens.”. [...]