French Single: AZAB race 2003 up and running
THE famous Azores and Back yacht race was officially launched on Friday with a reception at the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club in Falmouth.Fifty boats are set to take part in the two-handed and single handed race, including one team from Germany and one from the Azores itself.They will set off from Falmouth on June 7, next year, and sail across nearly 2, 500 miles of ocean to the Azores archipelago and back.Colin Drummond, chairman of the AZAB committee, said the event was becoming...
French Single: Briefs
Pat Kennedy helps Serna's campaign Corporation Commissioner Eric Serna, candidate for the 3rd Congressional District seat, spent Saturday campaigning around Northern New Mexico with help from a visiting Kennedy.Serna and U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., were to throw out the first ball at a Little League game in Taos and visit Taos Pueblo before heading down to Santa Fe.In Santa Fe, the two men talked about crime with victims of violent crime. Kennedy stressed the need to...
French Single: Davies looks for all-round progress on Figaro return,
Sailing
EARLY last year, Samantha Davies set herself and her sponsor, Skandia, a three-year target to try to become the first woman and the first British sailor to win the gruelling four-stage Solitaire du Figaro Grand Prix, the unofficial world championship of solo ocean racing. She is still on course to do it.After finishing a creditable nineteenth out of 44 last year and having benefited from a stint this winter at the French single-handed sailing school at Port La Foret, Davies starts the...
French Single: Transport yourself into a vivid adventure
"Beyond Good & Evil" is a rare gem, a beautiful and absorbing adventure with appeal for kids and adults, men and women, a vivid game free of gore but packed with fascinating, fun and sometimes hilarious details. The deep storyline packs characters you care about in a fleshed-out and living anime-style world filled with lots of fun sub-games, puzzles and races.Transported to a futuristic planet in the role of a young woman named Jade, a photojournalist...
French Single: Western Daily Press: A European average 'target' for pensions
Sir - We do not celebrate our pensioners here in the UK, we persecute them by forcing them to live on an GBP82 per week basic state pension.Consequently, one-in-five British pensioners from a 12 million generation are living in poverty in the UK and here in the South West, that's 55,000 people. Other countries in Europe celebrate their pensioners by providing much higher state pensions.German single pensioners receive GBP267.15 per week, French single pensioners GBP203.50...