Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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In the Sunday Express today.
Eurocrats want to send £1.1m changing the name of the English Channel to"Le POND"this is atrue story not one out of my head.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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VIC
True why????
how do we know its true?
at the end of the day i recall stories being put around about loony left councils at that time but when you got in behind the stories none were correct.
but it sells papers
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i think keith is right on this one.
the express group of newspapers know that their main appeal is to gullible xenophobes.
their readers will be up in arms, happy to believe that the nasty foreigners are being beastly towards us.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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vic,theygot it wrong again its being called bon marsh.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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So anyway just on the title
a local geezer mr mc carthy tried to get DHB to put up a move able sign showing the number of Dover born swimmers who had swum the channel
this would nt take a lot of updating
sadly DHB said no
We should i feel celebrate DOVER dwimmers who swam the channel.
what do you all fink?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good idea keith, wasn;t there a local lady, alison something or other that had done it loads of times?
i can remember reading a few years back that she lived and worked in london, but kept a flat here for weekend for all the training.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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howard ,alison streeter is the person you are thinking of.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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theres lots more
but who knows who they are
but DHB said no
so it never got off the ground
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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didn't Lyndon Dunsdee do it as well
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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Why rename the English Channel? The French have never called it that anyway. To them it's La Manche (or Le Manche, can never remember which).
It's a bit early for silly season stories isn't it?
Phil West
If at first you don't succeed, use a BIGGER hammer!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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never too early for the express group to dream up some rubbish for their readership.
not the dover express i hasten to add.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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There`s a local library full of factual reading.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Unregistered User
Like it or not this is a true story.
The Trans Manche region- Kent/Nord Pas de Calais -has existed for 20 years.
The Arc Manche seaboard area is already an EU designated programme area and is expanding.
Expanding it is.
Now Vic what are your UKIP MEP's doing about it?
Have not seen it on their radar.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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not sure of your meaning paul.
i know that the "nord pas de calais" is designated as a deprived area and gets outside support.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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might be worth looking in to it,dover might benifit from it.a deprived area that is.
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These areas are designated for joint partnership funding and give opportunities for Anglo French socio/economic development projects.
An example of EU funding locally is the Dover Priory project. That was the HST project and involved European towns on the High Speed Train routes..
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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gertting back to post 12, colin is right, we have a superb public library, much better than a lot of towns our size.
deal also has an excellent one.
ssomething that we can all benefit from and enjoy.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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there is an artical about this subject in todays dover express,makes interesting reading.
Don't believe the "Le Pond" story for a moment. The French are mad about not using anglicisms and I can only imagine that they are using that term (if true) in a pejorative way.
