Kent’s Olympic Torch relay route

1 week ago
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The Olympic Torch will start its journey around Kent’s towns on July 17, ten days before the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Tunbridge Wells, Ashford, Dover, Ramsgate, Canterbury, Maidstone and the Medway Towns are just some of the places Olympic torchbearers will pass through carrying the flame.

Below is a map of the streets included on the route. Scroll down below the map to see the estimate time of arrival in your town. Please note the route times are subject to change.

View Kent’s Olympic Torch relay route in a full screen map

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How a newspaper puts together its sports pages

1 month ago
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The press zone at Camp Nou

The press zone at Camp Nou

This is fascinating. On the night of Barcelona v Chelsea in the Champions League – probably one of the most testing matches for for football journalists, especially considering what happened in the game - Tony Evans, the Times football editor, tweeted the production process for those crucial final pages. Here is a Storify of those tweets:

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An experiment with liveblogging software Ocqur

1 month ago
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New liveblogging software Ocqur
A couple of weeks ago I signed up to beta test Ocqur, a new liveblogging platform created by university students Joseph Stashko and Jonathan Frost.

I received my invite to start using the software last week and couldn’t wait to try it out. Having used ScribbleLive in the past while on work experience at MSN News and being a journalist keen to experiment with new equipment and tools I was looking forward to trying out Ocqur.

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A day in the life of the RNLI

2 months ago
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RNLI gravesend

Gravesend RNLI

Below is a radio documentary I made about the RNLI for my last practical project at university.

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Another day, another blog

3 months ago
by mariasoleil in

So, I’ve created a new blog. This is not for a university project (which this initially wasn’t but turned out to be) but is purely something I enjoy learning and writing about.

It’s called Tea and Cake and this is what it looks like currently:

Tea and Cake

Tea and Cake screenshot

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