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I went to get my hair cut at The Barber Shop in West Monkseaton yesterday and got my one all over for my birthday on Thursday. Then I went for my Annual Health Check at The Doctor’s at Marine Drive and everything was fine. Then me and my Dad went to The Monkseaton Arms for a couple of pints to finish the day off so it was a good day and I had a really good day too.
Minimum Digital Living Standards Project (rural areas) Dr Emma stone, Good Things Foundation):
Over the summer of 2023 Good Things Foundation hosted five stakeholder workshops to discuss rural digital exclusion. Please click on link for access to their website. There is also a list of useful resources relating to digital inequalities in rural areas of the uk.
This is what Newcastle Airport looks like now this is what it would be like if you go to The Airport now when you go abroad on holiday. It is now called Newcastle International Airport and it has been called that now for a long time and this is the new look and the new version of Newcastle Airport.
Good morning one on this fine day. Today is the week before we undertake our joint annual general meeting with North Tyneside Disability Forum. As a partner in supporting vulnerable people, we endeavour to ensure that all users of the service have access to digital support and thereby experience a joyful excursion involving our team of a volunteer digital champions. To achieve that we do the following –
Engage
Enable
Educate
Empower
Thank you to all our volunteers for our achievements to date in helping over 1200 disabled people to gain value from their digital journeys.
I am looking forward to watching Wwe Wrestlemania 38 2022 again sometime on the Wwe Network I think it is another one of the best Wrestlemania’s in Wwe. Night 1 of Wrestlemania Saturday is on for 3 hours and 53 minutes and Night 2 of Wrestlemania Sunday is on for 3 hours and 45 minutes both just under 4 hours.
I am looking forward to watching Wwe Wrestlemania 40 XL 2024 from this past April on the Wwe Network again sometime I thought it was really good. Wrestlemania XL Saturday which is Night 1 is on for 4 hours and 13 minutes and Wrestlemania XL Sunday which is Night 2 is on 3 hours and and 41 minutes.
This is one of my favourite photos of me and my Grandma from when I was younger it was took at my Dad and Bern’s Wedding in December 2001 at Linden Hall twenty three years ago. I am fifteen years old on this photo and I was in year ten at Southlands School I was in my forth year at Southlands at the time.
This is one of my favourite photos of my Grandma and Zack it is along the steps and The River at Rothbury back in 91. It was took sometime that year in 1991 when I was probably still five years old and when I was still at Cullercoats Priory School when I was little. I use to go along the steps along the river too with my Grandma and Granddad and Zack sometimes when I use to go to my Grandma and Granddad’s Caravan at Long Framlington back in the early 90s and when I use to stay at The Caravan with them for a couple of days or few days.
I use to love Floppy The Dog when I was little he was one of my favourites on Biff And Chip in the early 1990’s. I use to think he was really cute when I was little back in the early 90s.
© IWM Art.IWM ART 3006
The Battle of the Somme was one of the most bitterly contested and costly battles of the First World War, lasting nearly five months. Despite this, it is often the first day of the battle that is most remembered. The offensive began on 1 July 1916 after a week-long artillery bombardment of the German lines. Advancing British troops found that the German defences had not been destroyed as expected and many units suffered very high casualties with little progress.
The Somme became an attritional or ‘wearing-out’ battle. On 15 September, tanks were used for the first time with some success, but they did not bring a breakthrough any closer. Operations on the River Ancre continued with some gains, but in deteriorating weather conditions major operations on the Somme ended on 18 November. Over the course of the battle, British forces took a strip of territory 6 miles (10km) deep by 20 miles (32km) long.
As an attritional offensive, the Battle of the Somme involved heavy casualties on both sides. By the end of the first day on 1 July 1916, British forces had suffered 57,470 casualties, of whom 19,240 were killed. This represented the largest losses suffered by the British Army in a single day.
While casualty rates were not as high as that for the remainder of the offensive, they were consistently heavy as both sides fought intensively for every yard of ground within a relatively small geographical area.
In total over a million men from both sides – including Britain and her Empire forces, France and Germany – became casualties during the battle.
The Battle of the Somme saw the first involvement in battle of many men who had volunteered for Army service in 1914 and 1915. This included men who had joined Pals battalions – infantry units that were made up of friends, relatives and workmates from the same communities.
After around a year of training, most of these men began to see active service from late 1915 and early 1916, particularly on the Western Front. As a result, the Battle of the Somme, the largest offensive the British Army had yet launched, was the first to be fought by a largely citizen army made up of civilian volunteers rather than professional soldiers. This meant that many of the attacking British infantry did not have battlefield experience. As one French officer wrote on 10 July 1916, ‘The British…infantry… is very brave but undergoing a costly apprenticeship’.
Although the British Army suffered heavy casualties for relatively little territorial gain on the Somme, the battle has increasingly been seen as important in providing experience that later contributed to victory on the Western Front.
During the course of nearly five months of fighting on the Somme, an inexperienced citizen army began to evolve into a battle-hardened one. The same was also true of British commanders, who had never previously commanded troops on this scale before. Improvements were made in the use of artillery and infantry tactics, and new weapons, including tanks, began to be integrated in the British Army’s methods. This came at a very high cost in casualties, but proved equally costly for the German Army, which began to realise that the British Army was becoming a major opponent.
An official documentary film, The Battle of the Somme, was the first feature-length film to record soldiers in action. It was filmed by the official cinematographers Geoffrey Malins and John McDowell, who filmed the build-up and early days of the battle.
When the film was shown in cinemas from 21 August 1916, an estimated 20 million people saw it in the first months of its release.
Many hoped to glimpse a son, brother, father or friend. It was intended to show that the ‘Big Push’ had been a success and that British soldiers were well supplied and cared for. The later phases of the Somme offensive were also represented in a follow up film, The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks, released in 1917
