++English sparklers++
Over the last couple of months there’s been some interesting news in the wine world.
June’s issue of Decanter magazine had a piece on the French eyeing UK vineyards.
Champagne sales hit a record in 2003. This prompted some Champagne Houses to look in English vineyards and invest in them.
HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN ***
DIRECTED BY Alfonso Cuaron
STARRING Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
US 2004 142 mins.
By Preston Wilder
Last week, the European Council reached an Agreement on a Constitution for Europe.
Politically and symbolically this Agreement is a major event in the EU’s history. It aims to improve the democratic legitimacy and transparency of the European Union and to bring them closer to the people.
I will illustrate this with a number of examples.
YOU know the feeling? It is Sunday. Tomorrow is the fourth Monday of the month and that means… but wait, there are still 350 pages to go! Arrrgh! – the tyranny of the book club. Either you stay up all night reading. Or you bluff. Or you are going to sit there saying nothing, which might be suspiciously out of character. Which is it to be?
NOW THAT the lawyers have total control of our lunatic asylum, we have to be extra careful about what we write because we don’t know from where the next libel suit is coming. Even worse is the fact that our judges have been awarding big compensation payments, by plantation standards, which could drive a small establishment like ours out of business.
THE GOVERNMENT’S long overdue decision to reduce the fiscal deficit has come under concerted fire from the moment Finance Minister Makis Keravnos announced the proposed package of measures in the legislature last Monday.
I HAVE to confess that I am hopelessly devoted to Grease. Cheesy as it is, this saccharine story of high-school lovers, a good, clean romp through the lives of American teenagers in the fifties, works a strange kind of magic.
She’s so virginal. He’s so hard. It’s all so clichéd. Oh, those summer nights.
HOT sun, warm sand and cool seas are the perfect recipe for a great summer. But carefree days at the beach can sometimes lead to danger, especially in the sea which is where lifeguarding comes in. It is still a developing profession in Cyprus and the Vice President of the Cyprus Life Saving Federation and the Head of the lifeguard team in Limassol admit there is still room for improvement.
Three weeks ago, JILL CAMPBELL MACKAY spoke to a wedding organiser about how to plan your wedding. Here she writes about two recent unions where everything, predictably, did not go according to plan
THERE were scenes of elation across the island last night following Greece’s unexpected triumph against the French for the 2004 European Championship.
Thousands of people gathered in Nicosia’s main square and celebrated until the early morning hours while beeping cars with Greek and Cypriot flags jammed the streets causing traffic chaos for hours.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
