Keith Downing says Cheltenham have already begun to plan scouting missions on their first opponents of the new season.

Nationalised mortgage lender Northern Rock has begun consultations with unions and staff over plans to axe 2,000 jobs. The job losses - around a third of its 6,000 staff - are due mainly this year and form part of plans to shrink the Newcastle-based ...

Nationalised mortgage lender Northern Rock has begun consultations with unions and staff over plans to axe 2,000 jobs.

Addex Pharmaceuticals announced that it has begun Phase I testing of two formulations of ADX10059 and that it will elaborate on ADX10059 development and its pipeline during today's R&D day.

Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit to the United States as Pope later this week. Time magazine has this article on Benedict's fascination with America. The New York Times has a blog devoted to the Pope's visit here . And as always with matters Papist, check in with EWTN for the very latest. Don't miss Peggy Noonan, either. She says that with this Pope, "Something Beautiful has Begun."

As I grow my network here on ecademy and see the great lengths that some people go to to market their businesses, and themselves, in a positive and openly friendly way across the UK (and beyond) I have begun to notice a lot of profiles without pictures. Having now gotten used to seeing the faces of people I connect with it sometimes feels a little odd coming across a faceless name.

Sorry to drop such terrible news on you all -- particularly on that glorious Flag Day-Fathers' Day five-day weekend -- but it definitely appears as though Satan has tapped his baton on his lectern and the overture to the Age of the Machines has begun. You have to concede that all of these wretched technical problems coming down on the same day is damned odd. [1641 words in article.]

Spring has officially begun: today, I logged the first sighting of a woman in short-shorts. And it was the kind of sighting that mattered, too. There was absolutely no need to pull her over and ask to see her paperwork. As she climbed the stairs in front of the post office I was immediately and absolutely certain that she'd passed the certification process and been cleared by county, state, and federal authorities to wear short-shorts, hot pants, and related styles of highly exciting and reveali...

It is weird trying to settle into domestic life which is both comforting and tedious. It has been hard for me to adjust from feeling like our relationship was a vacation from our everyday lives to feeling that our everyday lives are the center of our relationship. I don't want to talk about trash, and dishes, and bills with my love. I want to keep dreaming and talking about politics and philosophy. Work is too consuming as I'm learning to manage and navigate office politics. I'm trying to not le...