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Local NewsLOCAL ELECTION SHOCK 2000
Local Government
Adur District Local Authority.
No Overall Control.Shock result as the Conservatives become the leading party for the first time in at least 21 years.
Conservatives gain Southwick Green (2 seats), Southlands (Shoreham), Eastbrook (Southwick), Hillside (Southwick), Churchill (Lancing).National Trend: massive swing towards the Conservatives.
Conservatives 15 Labour 13 Liberal Democrats 9 Marine Residents Assoc. 2
12 May 2000
Shoreham Society AGM
St.Peter's Church Hall 7:30 pm
Talk: "A Taste of Wine" by John Radford
Please send any comments to:
Andy Horton Glaucus@hotmail.com
10
May 2000
Hedgehogs
mating amongst the docks and Bluebells in Corbyn Crescent. The thunderstorms
forecast seem to have avoided Shoreham. Sunny and humid.
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polemic | plemk | a. & n. M17. [med.L polemicus f. Gk polemikos, f. polemos war: see -IC.] A adj. = POLEMICAL a. M17.
B n. 1 A controversial
argument or discussion; argumentation against some opinion, doctrine, etc.;
sing. & in pl., aggressive controversy; in pl. (treated as sing.),
the practice of this, esp. in theology. M17. 2 A controversialist;
esp. in theology. M17.
1 C. R. ATTLEE A careful
exposition of the Labour programme with very little Party polemics in it.
M. TIPPETT It would be misrepresenting this book to finish the Introduction
on a note of polemic. D. CUPITT His unwearying polemic against the established
Church.
polemicist | -sst
| n. a writer of polemics M19.
diatribe | dLtrLb
| n. L16. [Fr. f. L diatriba learned discussion f. Gk diatribe spending
of time, discourse, f. as DIA-1 + tribein rub.] 1 A discourse, a disquisition.
arch. L16. 2 A dissertation or discourse directed against a particular
person or work; a piece of bitter criticism; scolding, denunciation. E19.
2 C. KINGSLEY A rambling,
bitter diatribe on the wrongs and sufferings of the labourers. H. JAMES
Diatribes against the British middle-class.
diatribist n. a person who
writes or utters a diatribe M17.
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The image map editor called Map Edit is available as a trial version from the following site:http://www.boutell.com/mapedit/
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