Scorching running expected at Spur Cape Summer Trail Series™ 2015 With entries almost filled up to capacity and the Cape summer showing its best side it’s a definite that the Spur Cape Summer Trail Series™ will get off to a cracking start this Wednesday. The Spur Trail Series™ is one of the most popular trail [...] Cape Summer Trail Series 2015 dates is a post from: Trail Running South Africa

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Letter to President Hollande and to the French People from IOC President Thomas Bach

It was with an enormous sense of shock and grief that I heard of the appalling attacks which took place in Paris on Wednesday. Such barbaric acts are an attack on the values of all civilised people from whatever country, religion or creed.

Let me assure you that the entire Olympic Movement, just as all right-thinking people, stand shoulder to shoulder with you and the people of France today. This was a shocking, brutal attack not just on France but on the values for which we all stand, and the values on which the Olympic Movement is also built. France is a country which stands for the civilized values of tolerance, friendship and respect. Those guns were aimed not just at journalists but at freedom of speech and the values for which France stands so strongly.

As you so rightly said, 'this was an act of exceptional barbarism'. But these terrorist atrocities will only serve to unite the people of France to stand together against such mindless violence and we in the Olympic Movement stand side by side with you and with France in solidarity."

THE AW15 SCHEDULE

• London Collections: Men boasts returning global brands Alexander McQueen, Burburry Prorsum, Margaret Howell, Moschino, Paul Smith, Tom Ford and TOPMAN.
  

• New additions to the London Collections: Men schedule this season include Alex Mattsson, Aquascutum Men's, Barbour, Coach, Kilgour, MR PORTER presents Kingsman, Nigel Cabourn, Private White V.C., Several, Soulland, Todd Lynn and Universal Works.

• Returning to the schedule after a break are Belstaff, CP Company, Manolo Blahnik, Savile Row, St James's & Woolmark and Thomas Pink.

• Presenting as catwalk shows for the first time are Dunhill, Hardy Amies, Maharishi and Pringle of Scotland.

• The inaugural winner of the BFC / GQ Designer Menswear Fund sponsored by Vertu, Christopher Shannon, will show his AW15 collection at 6pm on Friday 9th January.

• NEWGEN MEN sponsored by TOPMAN for AW15 includes Agi & Sam, Alex Mullins, Astrid Andersen, CMMN SWDN, Craig Green, Diego Vanassibara, Kit Neale, Lee Roach, Nasir Mazhar and Vidur. A NEWGEN MEN pop-up showroom will take place at Victoria House each day as a dedicated opportunity for the designers to host press and sales appointments.

• MAN, the joint initiative between TOPMAN and Fashion East returns to the catwalk on Friday 9th January at the TOPMAN Show Space at the Old Sorting Office. Liam Hodges and Nicomede Talavera return for the second season and are joined by newcomer Rory Parnell-Mooney.

• Fashion East will host the Californian-born British-trained menswear designer Shaun Samson's catwalk show and also through its installations will showcase five of the most exciting up-and-coming menswear talents: Alan Crocetti, Edward Crutchley, Graces Wales Bonner, Marques' Almeida and Roxanne Farahmand.

• Highlights on the events schedule include the Superdry Presentation; International Woolmark Prize Menswear Final; Fortnum & Mason and Jermyn St, St James's Cocktail Party; the Hackett London Dinner & Presentation; Selfridges, Nick Wooster & Tommy Ton Private Dinner; Men's Health x Christopher Raeburn Party; Esquire & Jimmy Choo party; Tommy Hilfiger & Jonathan Newhouse Dinner; BFC Fashion Film Screening in association with River Island & GQ Style and the GQ London Collections: Men dinner

In an ongoing operation targeting the illegal sale and supply of controlled drugs in Dublin South City Centre, Gardaí from the Pearse Street Community Policing Unit have seized cocaine with an estimated value of €30,000, pending analysis, during a number of planned searches of premises in the South City Centre between the 6th and 8th January 2015.

Two men, 33 & 27 years, have been arrested and are both currently detained at Pearse Street Garda Station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996.

These operations use advanced analytical and intelligence methods to disrupt criminals and dismantle their networks. Drug seizures play a critical role in targeting the livelihood of criminals and reducing their ability to carry out illegal activities. Drug seizures also help protect communities from the devastating impact of drugs and the associated criminality.

Pretoria - The South African government has extended its condolences to the government and people of France following the terrorist attack against journalists and members of the public in Paris on Wednesday.

It is reported that the terrorist attack against the headquarters of French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, claimed the lives of at least 12 individuals, including two policemen. At least 11 others have been injured, with four in a critical condition.

Charlie Hebdo, which is based in Paris' 11th arrondissement, was firebombed in 2011, due to the publishing of a controversial series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Shortly after Wednesday’s attack, French President Francois Hollande revealed that several terrorist attacks were stopped in recent weeks in France where the anti-terrorism alert plan has been raised to the highest level in the greater Paris area, which means a definite threat.

France, home to five million Muslims, the largest community in Europe, has been the target of terror threats in reprisal to its operation against the Daech group in Iraq and Syria.

South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on Thursday said the South African government joins the international community in condemning the calculated and barbaric terrorist attack.

“Deliberate attacks against journalists and members of the public contravene international law and constitute a crime against humanity,” DIRCO said.

The department said the South African government has taken note of and supports the United Nations Security Council in its condemnation of this “barbaric and cowardly” act and reiterates its stance that terrorism in any form and from whichever quarter cannot be condoned.

“South Africa stands firmly with the international community by unequivocally condemning all terrorism and will continue to support regional and international efforts, to address the scourge of terrorism in all its forms,” the department said. - SAnews.gov.za-Xinhua

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Long serving Athletics Auckland official Bert Chapman died on Monday 29 December 2014 aged 80. He had collapsed in Cornwall Park the day before and was taken to Auckland Hospital. Bert contribution to the sport has been huge in terms of officiating in the field at countless secondary school and Auckland Centre meetings and New [...]Bert Chapman passes away is a post from: Time-to-Run New Zealand



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Lovelock Classic, Aorangi Park – 3 January 2015 Daniel Balchin made it two years in a row in the Lovelock Mile winning in a personal best of 4:11.37. The 24 year old national steeplechase champion has built up an impressive record in the annual mile, third in 2012 in his previous best time of 4:12.49, [...]Early January 2015 Track Round up is a post from: Time-to-Run New Zealand



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Renowned photographer Timothy Allen has joined tribal people around the world in condemning Jimmy Nelson’s work “Before They Pass Away”, which is due to open at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York in February 2015. Allen, a leading photographer for National Geographic and BBC’s Human Planet said, “The patronizing and self-aggrandizing narrative behind ‘Before [...] Before They Pass Away Condemned is a post from: EconSpire

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