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It's Showtime - Fierce battles expected as London Games open

A life-sized classic English cottage with smoking chimney, rolling hills and a watermill - and, oh, not to mention a number of sheep, cows and goats and a game of cricket. London's Olympic Stadium was an ever-changing landscape, each telling another story.

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London welcomes the world

Jamaicans yesterday joined an estimated one billion viewers who witnessed the spectacular opening ceremony of the Games of the 30th Olympiad in London. Relive some of the enthralling moments in pictures.

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All-island walk halted - Trek stopped after team member develops blisters on his feet

THEY HAD planned the all-island health walk for a good cause - to lobby for Tacky to be a national hero. However, those plans came to a screeching halt on Tuesday after one member of the Tacky Heritage Group, Derrick 'Black X' Robinson, who walked from St Mary to Montego Bay barefooted, developed blisters on the soles of his feet.

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Kildere celebrates GSAT top achievers

THE COMMUNITY of Kildere in Buff Bay, Portland, is still celebrating the outstanding achievement of two of their own who acquired government scholarships in the recent Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).

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Slavery apology walk in Black River today

FROM NOVEMBER 29 to December 1, 1781, 133 Africans were thrown overboard from an overcrowded Liverpool slave ship named The Zong, sailing from Sao Tome, an island in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Famous house stands tall in Pullet Hall

PERCHED ATOP a small hill in the remote community of Pullet Hall northern St Elizabeth is a historic monument. It is in the form of a house, which was the main location for Hall Anthony Ellis' mini-series Pullet Hall. The series, which comprised 13 episodes and was about the intricacies of rural life, ran on local TV in 1998.