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  • jayne lee wilson
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    • Jul 2011
    • 10711

    Yay! Great news today - what wonderful penguins!

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    • Pianorak
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      • Nov 2010
      • 3127

      Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
      what wonderful penguins!
      r3ok is teeming with them!! - in fact there are times when it's more like a zoo!
      Anyway, GREAT news!
      My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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      • Bryn
        Banned
        • Mar 2007
        • 24688

        Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
        r3ok is teeming with them!! - in fact there are times when it's more like a zoo!
        Anyway, GREAT news!
        On loan:

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        • mangerton
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3346

          If this is true then of course I'm delighted, but this was the news on Monday evening. It might be wiser to save the penguin dance until we know that PT is in a fast British jet and outside Zimbabwean airspace.

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          • PJPJ
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 1461

            There was a court hearing today, Tuesday, and Bryn's link reports that.

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              Originally posted by PJPJ View Post
              There was a court hearing today, Tuesday, and Bryn's link reports that.
              There are no new tweets from PT since yesterday. Perhaps he's just too busy with more important things.

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              • Quarky
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                • Dec 2010
                • 2658

                Excellent news!

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                • salymap
                  Late member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 5969

                  Originally posted by mangerton View Post
                  If this is true then of course I'm delighted, but this was the news on Monday evening. It might be wiser to save the penguin dance until we know that PT is in a fast British jet and outside Zimbabwean airspace.
                  I agree Mangerton. What happened at the Thursday hearing - that's the one that counts - and has Petroc got his passport back ?

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                  • doversoul1
                    Ex Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 7132

                    salymap
                    This was the last information posted by Bryn (with the Penguins #100). No update since, so we still don’t know if Petroc is actually on the way home yet. But let’s hope all is well.

                    Petroc Trelawny, the BBC music presenter arrested in Zimbabwe last week over a work permit row, was finally free to fly home to the UK on Thursday night after being cleared by a court of any wrongdoing.

                    BBC's Petroc Trelawny free to leave Zimbabwe

                    Petroc Trelawny, the BBC music presenter arrested in Zimbabwe last week over a work permit row, was finally free to fly home to the UK on Thursday night after being cleared by a court of any wrongdoing.
                    6:54PM BST 31 May 2012

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                    • french frank
                      Administrator/Moderator
                      • Feb 2007
                      • 30276

                      This was from Zimbabwe just under an hour ago. But the latest was still only that they were on their way to collect the passport.
                      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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                      • austin

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                        • LHC
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                          • Jan 2011
                          • 1556

                          Petroc has tweeted this afternoon that he is now at Jo'burg airport and on his way home.
                          "I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
                          Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest

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                          • Frances_iom
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                            • Mar 2007
                            • 2413

                            pity about the Zim tourism marketing - "It is assumed by the experts that it is critical for Zimbabwe, which has identified tourism among the four pillars of its economic recovery plan to market and promote itself as a safe and attractive destination. " - maybe installing lighting in the dormitory cells at police HQ might encourage the safety.

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                            • Lateralthinking1

                              Originally posted by LHC View Post
                              Petroc has tweeted this afternoon that he is now at Jo'burg airport and on his way home.
                              Yes indeed he has. He is in South Africa. Thank you for this news LHC and congratulations to him. Very pleasing news.

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                              • PJPJ
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1461

                                PT (and one or two others) in Bulawayo......

                                A musical extravaganza, composed and conducted by Richard Sisson, featuring 500 school children performing alongside international musicians during the Bulaw...

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