Bassetlaw Cricket: Clumber less than picture perfect Worksop Today, UK In reply Mills never really made an effort to knock the runs off as they dropped anchor like the QE2 in a Caribbean port and batted out the 46 overs in the sun. The bowlers all worked hard and eight wickets ensured 16 points was gained from a docile ... |
Monday, June 15, 2009
Bassetlaw Cricket: Clumber less than picture perfect - Worksop Today
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Calverley Carnival 2009: Community invite - Farsley Today
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Calverley Carnival 2009: Community invite Farsley Today, UK Simeon plays over 20 instruments and entertains audiences worldwide in theatres, churches, art centres, festivals and as a solo cabaret act on board the finest cruise ships including QE2 and Cunard. When he's not touring Simeon is regularly ... |
Saturday, June 13, 2009
World's biggest floating hotel, The Aquiva, to bring life of ... - Times Online
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World's biggest floating hotel, The Aquiva, to bring life of ... Times Online, UK The project follows the removal last year of Britain's most famous cruise ship, the decommissioned QE2, to be refitted as a luxury hotel off the coast of one of Dubai's popular artificial palm-shaped islands. The contrast could hardly be greater ... |
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Summer out of the city - FFWD
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Summer out of the city FFWD (Most destinations are between Calgary and Red Deer, just a short detour off of the QE2.) The spring Country Drive was recently held on the weekend of May ... |
A-List glamour on a cruise holiday to New York - TravelBite.co.uk
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 | A-List glamour on a cruise holiday to New York TravelBite.co.uk, UK This ship, which replaced the QE2 in 2004 at a cost of just £500million, is the longest, tallest and most technologically advanced vessel at sea anywhere in the world. No need to worry about icebergs then! Relaxing violin music and an army of brightly ... |
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
One-time Wurzel putting his talents to good use - This Is The Westcountry
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One-time Wurzel putting his talents to good use This Is The Westcountry, UK Burnham-based Terry has spent more than ten years working on luxury cruise liners including the QE2 as a musician. Terry Odell lives in Bleadon and has previously taught at King Alfred School in Highbridge and plays many different styles from classical ... |
Sunday, June 7, 2009
From QE2 to sailing barges in the life of a Liverpool pilot ... - Liverpool Daily Post
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From QE2 to sailing barges in the life of a Liverpool pilot ... Liverpool Daily Post, UK “I have close empathy with QE2 as she was built as I finished my apprenticeship.” As Shell Oil's appropriated pilot since 1988, he brought the largest ship into the Mersey earlier this year. This was the chartered Greek monster tanker Ellinis, ... |
Saturday, June 6, 2009
No work carried out to transform QE2 into floating hotel despite ... - Daily Mail
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 | No work carried out to transform QE2 into floating hotel despite ... Daily Mail, UK The owners have denied speculation that the cruise ship will be sold on instead of becoming a hotel. The company has told the BBC the ship is not up for sale, even though work on the refurbishment has not begun. Nakheel has said it will make the QE2 ... |
Thursday, June 4, 2009
QE2 owners dismiss sale rumours - BBC News
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 | QE2 owners dismiss sale rumours BBC News, UK The owners of the QE2 have denied speculation that the cruise ship will be sold on instead of being turned into a floating hotel. Cunard sold the Southampton-based liner for £50m to real estate developer Nakheel in the United Arab Emirates. ... |
Hands-On: Rolls-Royce Ghost is 100% Roller so far - Autoblog
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Hands-On: Rolls-Royce Ghost is 100% Roller so far Autoblog, CA While most people would probably say the other vehicles in the line – the Phantom, Drophead Coupe, and Coupe – meet that description, those three do so in the same way that the QE2 or Kilamanjaro or a pod of blue whales meet that description. ... |
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
QE2 refurbishment at a standstill - BBC Berkshire
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 | QE2 refurbishment at a standstill BBC Berkshire, UK Supporters of the QE2 have expressed fears that refurbishment work of the liner in Dubai will be abandoned. The ship's owner maintains it will not be sold on. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. ... |
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Scrap or Sell: Cruise Ships Impacted as SOLAS 2010 Approaches - Cruise Critic
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Scrap or Sell: Cruise Ships Impacted as SOLAS 2010 Approaches Cruise Critic, NJ The ship was sold to Orient Lines and was scheduled to launch as Marco Polo II in spring 2009. It was not to be: Orient Lines shuttered before the first cruise, and the ship was sold for scrap. Meanwhile, like QE2, it appears as if Fred. ... |
You've Got Mail 06-02-09 - Plainview Daily Herald
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You've Got Mail 06-02-09 Plainview Daily Herald, TX *The cruise liner, QE 2, moves six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. *The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. *The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze ... |
Monday, June 1, 2009
Last survivor of the Titanic - Sydney Morning Herald
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 | Last survivor of the Titanic Sydney Morning Herald, Australia In 1997 she was invited to travel to America aboard the QE2 to complete her family's voyage to Kansas that had begun 85 years earlier. She visited the house that had been her uncle's in Kansas City. Having found the 1958 film A Night to Remember ... |
Last Titanic survivor dies - Independent Online
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Last Titanic survivor dies Independent Online, South Africa Dean was invited to complete her family's ill-fated journey to the United States in 1997 aboard the QE2, and accepted. However, she turned down an offer to attend the premier of the 1997 blockbuster movie Titanic because it would be too upsetting. ... |
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