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Parking warden tickets Dunkirk veteran with disabled badge.
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AN 85-year-old disabled Dunkirk war veteran who is almost blind has been given a parking ticket - despite clearly displaying a disabled badge on his wife's car.
East Sussex County Council said the badge was facing the wrong way and fined him [pounds sterling]60.
Don Short, a born and bred Lewesian and Commercial Square Bonfire boy for more than 70-years, has refused to pay up and said the fine was an 'insult'.
He lives in Seaford but visits Lewes every week, despite having difficulty walking after a quadruple by-pass operation and suffering from ...
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Poetic injustice
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...comes from the young Aberdonian Charles Sorley, one of 12 soldier poets...and blood poisoning. Only four (Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Siegfried Sassoon...collections of poetry -- which Edmund Blunden was to publish in 1954 - Ivor Gurney...
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BOOKS: PSALMISTS AND PROPHETS How far should the war poets influence our view of the Great War? Mark Bostridge visits a stirring new exhibition to find out
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...and work of 12 soldier poets - Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves...Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Sorley, Edward Thomas - through...German cap retrieved in a raid by Edmund Blunden and mentioned by him in Undertones...
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The pity of war poetry Wilfrid Owen keeps his place as the greatest of the 'soldier poets', says Anthony Thwaite
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Brooke, Julian Grenfell, Charles Sorley, Francis Ledwidge...Graves, Wilfred Owen, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Ivor...work later. Sassoon and Blunden lived on into old age...Osbert Sitwell, Charles Scott Moncrieff. I am...
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ART & LIFE
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Mary, Queen of Scots. Edmund Blunden tackles Leigh Hunt...a mini-biography of Charles II that was too much...guardians of the gallery: Charles II, he commented...in the final version, Charles II simply rules, with...
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Siegfried Sasson: The Making of a War Poet.
Magazine article from: World and I
; ...Owen, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden--all poets close to Sassoon--and even of Charles Sorley and Isaac Rosenberg...old guard," notably Edmund Gosse, not the modernists...immediately beneficial. Unlike Charles Sorley, who had no illusions...
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Behind the old lie Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...composer Ivor Gurney. Charles Stanford, Gurney's...Oxbridge graduates, and Charles Sorley would have been...Owen, Sassoon and Edmund Blunden - won Military Crosses...Change creeps in with Charles Sorley, killed at 20...
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Obituary: Professor Jack Morpurgo
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...there: amongst these were Keith Douglas, Edmund Blunden, Sydney Carter (he who wrote "Lord of...in a tradition that extends back through Charles Lamb to Coleridge, George Peele and Edmund Campion. Jack's father, Mark, was...
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Ivor Gurney: from triumph to tragedy.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...to a young Schubert. His composition teacher. Sir Charles Stanford, thought Gurney possessed more potential than...with contributions inter alia from Walter de la Mare, Edmund Blunden, Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams. But then...
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Forgotten but not lost for ever Passchendaele was to be Ivor Gurney's undoing, but it inspired some of his best work. Now the bloody scenes are to be commemorated in a suite
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...Music in London, where he studied composition under Sir Charles Stanford. His songs were already psychologically perceptive...forgotten. No more anthologies appeared until 1954, when Edmund Blunden brought out a volume of Selected Poems. PJ Kavanagh...
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NEW IN PAPERBACK
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...educations. At Oxford, Espey studied under the poet Edmund Blunden, lived in ancient rooms with a fireplace and window...school/experiment in North Carolina, headed by poet Charles Olson, with teachers and visitors such as composer...
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