Chesley Looks At Joining Brockton Family Health Team

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Learning

Adding Chesley and Durham physicians to the already established Brockton and Area Family Health Team would not only allow for the hiring of more allied health care professionals in the area, it would also make history.
Chesley and Durham doctors were invited earlier this year to be part of the Brockton Family Health Team. A business [...]

The real tartan army

Posted on April 13th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Health

Glenrothes, you see, is Black Watch heartland. This famous, pursed-lipped, brave regiment, its dour humour and thin Scots faces and 21 Victoria Crosses, is drawn from Fife and Tayside, central east Scotland: there’s a wind, always, from the North Sea, and the men are small, and the memories last, even if the jobs don’t.The regiment [...]

Nicholas Stern: One global crisis after another

Posted on April 5th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Doctor

When Sir Nicholas Stern left the London School of Economics in 1993, he assured colleagues he’d be back in academia within two or three years. Fourteen years later, he’s finally delivered on that promise with his return to the LSE as the first holder of the IG Patel chair. “I’ve never really had much of [...]

In the path of Priestley

Posted on January 28th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family Learning

English Journey is a record of the author’s rambling travels through the country in 1933. It was published in 1934 and was highly influential, directly inspiring George Orwell’s The Road To Wigan Pier and feeding into a growing stream of sociological commentary that included the investigations of Mass Observation and the documentary films of John [...]

Men at work

Posted on January 25th, 2008 by admin and filed under Family News

Toddlers are climbing, swinging and chasing each other on a Saturday morning in the sunny garden of a children’s centre. Some are viewing the landscape from their dads’ shoulders. In the kitchen, young men are sitting around a low table on tiny chairs, chatting and laughing, the babies on their laps poking their fingers into [...]