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Tiptoeing Through the Cold War: A veteran foreign correspondent looks back - by Colin McIntyre. Special Coast and Country Author Spotlight Feature.

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*Pictured above - veteran foreign correspondent and author Colin   McIntyre. Special Coast and Country Author Spotlight Feature Welcome to another new author feature in conjunction with Amazon. Tiptoeing Through the Cold War:  A veteran correspondent looks back - by Colin McIntyre. *NOTE: This book is now available on amazon:   https://amzn.to/49992Tu ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Former foreign correspondent and author Colin McIntyre.   Published by North Wales based firm:   www.bookpublishing4u.co.uk https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com In this very interesting memoir the author, Colin McIntyre, looks back on 34 years as a foreign correspondent mainly reporting the Cold War.  After joining Reuters news agency in the 1960s he is posted to East Berlin, the only Western correspondent accredited to communist East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, still reeling from a 1968 Soviet-led invasion to crush attempted reforms.  After a spell in Asia covering communist takeovers in ...

Storm Bert was the only winner as various parkruns and local events hit...but Steve, Martin, and Harry beat the weather.

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Storm Bert was the only winner as various parkruns and local events hit - but Steve, Martin, and Harry beat the weather. Report by Don Hale. https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com www.welshmastersathletics.co.uk   Storm Bert was the only winner last weekend as heavy rain and gale force winds forced the postponement of numerous sporting events, and in particular some fell and trail races, plus a host of popular parkruns across the area. Planned parkruns at Nova Prestatyn, Penrhyn Castle, Newborough Forest and Conwy, to name but a few, were all cancelled on either Friday night, or early Saturday morning, on essential health and safety grounds, to help protect both volunteers and many hundreds of participants. At Penrhyn Castle  they announced on Friday afternoon: “Unfortunately owing to the weather forecast we’ve been informed that parkrun is cancelled this Saturday.” And the same applied at the  Nova Prestatyn  venue, which is run along the promenade, when they confirmed: “...