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OUTDOORSmagic Forum Is The BBC News...
By Jon on 01/06/2005 10:43:25
In a classic tail wags dog scenario, a lively debate on the OUTDOORSmagic forum has become a news story of its own on the BBC web site and air waves. Who needs the Big Brother house?
In a curious twist on normal internet life, the OUTDOORSmagicforum and its members have actually become the news with a busy OMforum thread forming the basis for a BBC story.It all started when walking author Hugh Westacott popped onto theforum
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Holiday News Round-Up
By Jon on 29/12/2004 10:46:19
A quick skim through the Christmas outdoors news plus how you can donate online to aid agencies working to alleviate the effects of the south east Asian tsunami disaster
Thankfully things seem to be pretty quiet on the outdoors newsfront - quite a few of us enjoyed a white-ish Christmas, but it lookslike temperatures are about to rise, so you can expect most low-lyingsnow to melt in the next day or so - bad news
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Spiderman In The News Again
By Jon on 19/11/2007 12:30:34
French climber Alain Robert is in the news again after soloing a Chinese cliff...
The French fella who likes soloing tall buildings and has beendubbed 'Spiderman' by the media is back in the news after climbing acliff on Tianmen Mountain in central China as part of a promotionalevent.Alain Robert was supposedly banned from China
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Weekend News Round-Up
By Jon on 12/06/2006 12:04:23
Everest controversy rumbles on, two mountain accidents in North Wales, missing climbers in Alaska.
A quick Monday morning round-up of weekend outdoor news for you...Everest Controversy ContinuesThe leader of an Everest expedition alleged to have instructed hisclimbers to pass a dying British climber high on Everest hasreportedly said that he
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Festive News Round-Up
By Jon on 03/01/2012 13:54:22
Prince Harry [not] to climb Everest and more festive news besides.
Just to help you return to solid ground after the holidays and to save you threshing endlessly through the web in search of significant outdoor news – there isn't much – here's a quick whisk through some of the stories which have appeared between
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Race News From kimm.com
By Jon on 14/07/2000 19:52:00
Adventure racing news page new at KIMM.com, plus entry deadline looms
Adventure racers should definitely potter over to Mike Parsonskimm.comsite and check out the new news page. Admittedly it's not of muchinterest to anyone indifferent to the lure of flogging themselves wildly overthe hills, but if it's your bag
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Chilean Pooch Packs Not News
By The Canny Canine on 22/07/2003 15:12:00
So much for Ananova's dramatic story about Chileans designing packs for dogs, the world is littered with the wretched things. Isn't it about time your dog carried his own food?
Jeez, it must be summer. The living is good and news is slow. Soslow in fact that we've decided to recycle this dog-earedAnanova story about a Chilean company selling backpacks fordogs.The Pouch Can - surely 'Pooch Can' - comes in three sizes
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Midges Make The News
By Jon on 29/06/2009 12:55:10
Scottish paper highights the midge bite misery and its possible solutions.
Midges and tickshit the pages of TheHerald today with an in-depth article giving the low downon the little blighters' threat to domestic holidaymakers includingwalkers and climbers.Midges, ittranspires, come in 37 different Scottish varieties, but the realnasties are the Highland...
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Cairngorm furnicular news
By Maria Thomas on 18/12/2001 12:07:08
Cairngorm Furnicular could open to public before Christmas
The highly controversial Cairngorm furnicular has now been completed and is awaiting the go-ahead from HM Railways Inspectorate before it can open to the public. The furnicular operators hope that this will be given before Christmas although there is till currently not enough sno...
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Weekend News Round-Up
By Jon on 19/06/2006 11:50:36
Eat our one millionth pant, record set on Kili, Jamie Andrew gets back on his bike plus prestigious award for radical Canadian pack.
weekend news round-upIt's Monday, so it must be time for our weekend outdoor newsround-up of, erm, weekend outdoor news stories.One Million PantsApparently Craghoppers is celebrating selling one million pairsof their Kiwi Trousers - that's them
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