Woman avoids jail after ransacking and stealing from dead pensioner's home - News Shopper

Woman avoids jail after ransacking and stealing from dead pensioner's home
News Shopper
Because of problems identifying Ms Groom's next of kin, her children, who do not live locally, were not informed of their mother's death for several weeks. Speaking outside Croydon Crown Court, her son Simon Groom has spoken of his devastation of ...

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The 10 best Blue Peter clips - The Guardian


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The 10 best Blue Peter clips
The Guardian
The 25th birthday show from 1983 featuring Simon Groom, Peter Duncan – in a comedy green and white suit designed by a viewer, if I remember rightly – and Janet Ellis. The three of them ended up on the TV Centre roof ("We made it!

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Analysis: A timeless image that manages to put us all in the picture - Scotsman


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Analysis: A timeless image that manages to put us all in the picture
Scotsman
By SIMON GROOM Why has Munch caught the popular public imagination with pictures like The Scream? It is for his haunting imagery, as much as for creating the romantic myth of the artist as a tortured genius. His idea was that the most genuine art comes ...

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How Blue Peter has kept children's TV shipshape - The Guardian

How Blue Peter has kept children's TV shipshape
The Guardian
... called Banks and Wag, hasn't got much of a Mike Oldfield feel about it, and the pace and production values are light years from the 70s and 80s incarnations presided over by John Noakes and Peter Purves and (later) Peter Duncan and Simon Groom.

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British farce storms Imperial - Sarnia Observer

British farce storms Imperial
Sarnia Observer
As director Jean Simon puts it, what happens after the groom over indulges, “in more ways than one,” is anything but a perfect wedding. But, it will hopefully be a perfectly lovely and very funny show staged by Simon, her cast of six and a large corps ...

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Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Jordan - The Daily Advertiser

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Jordan
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Ushers included Robert Mitchell and Billy Hopkins, cousin of the groom. Readers of Sacred scripture were Maureen Chiasson, aunt of the groom, and Matt Chiasson, uncle and Godfather of the groom. Howard Paul Simon, Jr., uncle and Godfather of the bride, ...

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Scot, showman and sculptor supreme: Glasgow-born George Wyllie dies at 90 - Scotsman


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Scot, showman and sculptor supreme: Glasgow-born George Wyllie dies at 90
Scotsman
But Simon Groom, director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, said: “He was unconventional, had a singular vision, a great imaginative approach to the world, which was full of questioning. It was humorous, independent-minded and had the ...

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A Review of 'My Name Is Asher Lev,' in New Haven - New York Times


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A Review of 'My Name Is Asher Lev,' in New Haven
New York Times
... “The Neil Simon Plays,” directed by David Cromer, died at the box office before the second play even had its first preview.) But Mr. Brand did burst onto the New York stage scene last year as the unguarded groom-to-be in AR Gurney's “Black Tie.

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Degas to Dali: month left to see best show in town - National Business Review

Degas to Dali: month left to see best show in town
National Business Review
Simon Groom of Scottish National Galleries of Modern Art says: "Such is the calibre of works in this exhibition that all are almost constantly on display at the various national galleries in Scotland, or on loan to other institutions - from van Gogh's ...

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Facebook denies plans to let children under age 13 join - TODAYonline

Facebook denies plans to let children under age 13 join
TODAYonline
Mr Simon Milner, head of policy in Britain for Facebook, had been quoted in The Sunday Times as saying Facebook had plans to lift the ban. He told the paper that the decision to allow children to create profiles was still a very early stage.

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