THIS morning I cycled again towards Ufton Court, and. ditching my rusty machine. I walked once more from the old gateway, along the paths through the woods to the Larch Trees triangle. As I proceeded, the frozen ground crunched beneath my shoes with a pleasant Christmasy sound,

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THE children at the Smith Hospital, Henley, had something more than the ordinary Christmas party on Saturday last. The occasion was the wedding of the assistant Matron. Miss Alice Kennedy, and civil engineering foreman, Mr. Michael Watterson. The Matron, Miss Phyllis I.acey, was

4 IT all started when seven-year- old David Ilsley, of 62 Hatford Road, was transferred from Battle Hospital, Reading, to Cold Ash Children's Hospital near Newbury. His sister Susan. with two other girls who are fellow pupils at Westwood Girls School, started a fund-raising effo

AIR.. D. R. HILL renders a public service in bringing into the open these questions about alcoholic drink which agitate every thoughtful mind. We cannot leave people. and especially young people. to derive their idea about drinking solely from the diabolically clever advertiseme