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'Government spending kick-started economic activity': I wonder why people still use this expression based on a way of starting a motorcycle that was overtaken by technology decades ago. It's an an odd survival. - IMVHO!
Charity launches fundraising appeal to care for and document eclectic store of more than 1m artefacts
As an aside I don't know if the lack of any mention of volunteers means that English Heritage doesn't use that avenue in its work or whether it was just an unfortunate omission on the part of the writer. At my former workplace the volunteer Collections Team is essential in monitoring condition and getting the items photographed and digitised for online research access, as the site has just the one curator who has no assistant staff.
Meanwhile, I have had another BBC News online correction accepted Photo of man captioned as having been an RAF colonel. BUT I have to admit I wouldn't have noticed that one if it hadn't been for the fact that the copy some way below said he'd been a corporal ... Sometimes the BBC takes notice
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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