This impression is underscored by the high level of minority representation in our major team sports.

She was very stiff and lame, and was made more so by a mismount, catching in her saddle and tipping down on the bruised side; but she picked up and went at it again with a will, and after a wobble or two across the road, was bowling along at the same risky pace as before.

After all that has been said and written about illiteracy, one may well ask whether it was appropriate to include this subject, so much discussed elsewhere, in the agenda of the XXVIIth International Conference on Public Education.

One of the two boxes displaced by the new Pelaw installation will be Springwell, between Boldon Colliery and Pelaw, which has recently had the distinction of being manned by a husband and wife on alternate shifts.