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In early times, when Latin still was the world’s legal and religious language, there appeared the use of abbreviations, proper to save time and space in writing on valuable parchments. Later in the transcription of Scots, Saxon and English texts there was commonly used a letter called Thorn (Þ þ), corresponding to the sound “th”.
Earlier this year gales displaced one of the pinnacles high on the north west corner of Hereford Cathedral’s central tower causing fears that it would come crashing to the ground, severely damaging a number of roofs and potentially the ceiling of the nave in its fall.
Brian Williams, Jane Crill, Graham Spence, Jane Vincent, Chris Sparks and Conrad Coutanche by the new EYECAN minibus
A CHARITY which supports Jersey Islanders with sight difficulties has acquired a new wheelchair-accessible minibus.
TLC Ireland and Widows Sons Masonic Bikers Association Ireland
Teddies for Loving Care – TLC Ireland and Widows Sons Masonic Bikers Association Ireland recently attended the Ulster Hospital Emergency Department to mark the donation of the 100,000th ‘TLC’ Teddy Bear’.
TLC have donated teddy bears to the Emergency Departments in the Ulster, Lagan Valley & Downe hospitals over the past few years for staff to give to children or patients at their discretion. Giving a teddy bear to anyone who is distressed while in hospital will enable the medical staff to carry on with their vital work and help children and families have a more comforting experience.
The teddies will be used in various ways, for the child or patient to cuddle as a reward for being brave and for staff to demonstrate what they are going to do. The teddies also act as a distraction and can provide reassurance for the child which helps, parents, guardians and siblings.
Teddies for Loving Care (TLC) is a charity supported by the Masonic Order within Ireland who donate sterile packaged teddy bears to hospital Emergency Departments in both Northern and Southern Ireland.
The South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust would like to sincerely thank TLC for their donations to date and for their continued support in donating teddy bears to our Emergency Departments.
On the afternoon of the 10th August at the Renal Unit in Maidstone Hospital a cheque for £4,000 was presented to the Kent Kidney Patients Association (K.P.P.A.) by a group of Maidstone Freemasons: Mick Packham of Belvidere Lodge, Les Tasker of Robinson Lodge, John Beadle of Agricola Lodge, Alan Chitty of Duke of Kent Lodge, Chris Harbord of Bearsted Lodge and Jim McDonald of Monckton Lodge – all past masters of their lodges in 2007 and known locally as the “007s”.
The initiative was started in 2015 by Bucks Freemasons, and has now seen several hundred men in the county tested, with some of them having follow-on checks after receiving their PSA results.
During the day 117 visitors were tested.
Masons from Lilford Lodge visited the Hindley-based hospice to present the money, which was collected by all seven Masonic lodges in Leigh.
More than 30,000 cardiac arrests occur out of hospital in the UK every year, yet just 1 in 10 people survive. Immediate CPR and early defibrillation are crucial steps in saving someone’s life.
Freemason Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, installs Cecil Hamley as the new Master of Nambour. John McCutcheon
IT’S his second time in the hot seat, but Cecil Hamley is not taking lightly his induction as Worshipful Master of the Freemasons’ Nambour Lodge.
“It’s still an experience, a new one,” he told the Daily before the Grand Master for the United Grand Lodge of Queensland, Alan Townson, placed him on the chair of King Solomon at Nambour Masonic Centre yesterday.
Members of St Guthlac Masonic Lodge made the journey to RAF Wyton to visit the Magpas Air Ambulance Operations Base last week, after the charity was successfully nominated to receive a donation of £500 from the New Provincial Benevolent Fund of the Masonic Province of Lincolnshire.