If you had seen the big chocolate fudge cake for two quid on sale in Sainsbury’s on a casual Thursday night, don’t pretend you wouldn’t have snapped it up too. It wasn’t that I was hungry for the cake particularly, but something in me decided that the discounted item was too good to pass up, […]
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Hosts and favourites New Zealand will play France in the Rugby Union World Cup final after respectively beating Australia and Wales in the semi-finals.
Les Bleus were fortunate to sneak a 9-8 win over Wales, who had captain Sam Warburton harshly sent off for a dangerous tackle in the 19th minute.
‘Faith’ the atheist concluded ‘is a crutch for the weak.’ As he sat down, I seethed in my seat. Although I was aware of this argument I couldn’t believe that a supposedly educated man would use this aged saying as his closing gambit. The theme was ‘Do we need God in the 21st Century?’ As […]
England’s dream of reaching a third consecutive Rugby Union World Cup final is over after crashing out in the quarter-finals 19-12 to France. Lewis Moody’s side began dreadfully, trailing 16-0 at half-time following tries from Vincent Clerc and Maxime Medard. They fought back as Ben Foden and Mark Cueto crossed but it was not enough. […]
In 2003, Evangelicals Now published some research that suggested that in terms of seeing whole households come to faith, the following could be statistically proven. Lead a child to Jesus and 3.5% of the time the whole family will come to Christ Lead a mother to Jesus and 17% of the time the whole family […]
England remained on course to qualify for the Rugby Union World Cup quarter-finals in New Zealand but Scotland have it all to do to join them. England dispatched an under-strength Romania 67-3 with hat-tricks of tries for Mark Cueto and Chris Ashton. However, Scotland were edged out 13-12 by Argentina. Scotland must now beat England […]
Ireland produced the shock result of the Rugby Union World Cup so far by beating Australia 15-6. Jonathan Sexton and Ronan O’Gara scored two penalties each and Sexton also landed a drop-goal to make Ireland favourites to win Pool C. England and Scotland were level on points at the top of Pool B after recording […]
The Rugby Union World Cup began in New Zealand with pulsating games involving the home nations. England and Scotland survived scares in Pool B, coming from behind to beat Argentina 13-9 and Romania 34-24 respectively. Wales came mighty close to beating defending champions South Africa in Pool D but lost 17-16 and Ireland defeated the […]
(By Mandy Marshall) ‘It’s alright – I know what sex I am love’ came the response from a man when I told him what job I did. The phrase Gender Advisor is not exactly the clearest of job titles. It does make it open for comments such as ‘Do you work in a sex change […]
(By George Bouras on behalf of Rob Barnett) Team GB ended their week at the World Championships in Daegu on a high on Sunday as Mo Farah took gold in the 5,000m. Phillips Idowu lost his world title, though, having to settle for a silver in the long jump. Usain Bolt made up for the […]
