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Babergh District Council - Information on council services, economic development and tourism for this area of South Suffolk.

Barnet Council - Information on services provided by the council as well as business and investment opportunities.

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council - Information on local governance, inward investment, living and working in the region and also education and training.

Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council - Site provides information on council services, tourism and business opportunities.

Basildon District Council - Contains information on business, leisure and events in the area.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council - Information on both business and tourism as well as details of Council services.

Bassetlaw District Council - Provides information on policies, planning, local history and Council structure.

Bath & North East Somerset Council - Provides detailed information on the structure of the council, services provided and business opportunities.

Bedford Borough Council - Includes a guide to Bedford, economic development opportunities, tourism, local events and details of council services.

Bedfordshire County Council - Site includes environmental, business, leisure, tourism, transport and local service information.

Bexley Council - Includes details of Council services, local history and business opportunities.

Blackpool Borough Council - Information for locals on matters such as Council services along with tourism and business details.

Blyth Valley Borough Council - Northumberland. Contains details on the Council and its services as well as leisure and tourism in the area.

Bolsover District Council - News, events, local services, tourist and business information.

Bournemouth Borough Council - Contains detailed service-oriented pages with information for local residents.

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council - Information for locals on crime and disorder initiatives plus business, tourism and the arts.

Boston Borough Council - Services, tourism, sports and leisure, job vacancies for this area of Lincolnshire.

Bracknell Forest Borough Council - Includes details of local activities, attractions and services in this area of the Thames Valley.

Bradford City Metropolitan District Council - Provides information for local people on the range of services provided by the council. It also includes a section on short breaks to remember.

Breckland Council - Covers the Thetford, Dereham, Swaffham, Watton and Attleborough areas of Norfolk. Site provides information on services, tourism, leisure and transport.

Brentwood Borough Council - Information on council services, local history, tourism and business opportunities.

Brighton and Hove Council - Concentrates on the opportunities for businesses in the Brighton and Hove area.

Bristol City Council - Contains information on services and tourism.

Bromley London Borough Council - Community information, services and business opportunities.

Bromsgrove District Council - Information on council services, tourism, trade and commerce.

Buckinghamshire County Council - Information on council services, education and training, businessm tourism and leisure.

Burnley Borough Council - Contains information on Towneley Hall art gallery and museums plus general Council information and heraldry.

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council - Information on council services, local history and places to visit.

Birmingham City Council - Includes detailed information on the city for locals, tourists and the business community.

Broxtowe Borough Council - Information on the services provided by the council plus local history and economic development in this part of Nottinghamshire.

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council - Includes news, information and services from the Council.

Broxbourne Borough Council - Provides contact details, councillor information and topical information on council services.

Brent Council - Includes a section on Wembley Stadium and a selection of local government links.

Braintree District Council - Essex. Advice and information on topics including education, health and housing in the area.

Barking and Dagenham Council - London. Contains a profile of the borough, contact details and online services.

Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council - Northumberland. Councillor information, vacancies, contacts and links.

Blaby District Council - Leicestershire. Includes links to council services and resources for the area.

Broadland District Council - Norwich. Information about the Council and services, transportation, business and tourism.

Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran B Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. B The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) B Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) B Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker B "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name." -- Mike Binder Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb B Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett B It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley B The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw B I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words B "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words B Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous B "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? B The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. -- William Congreve Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous B "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley B Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) B "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. -- Margaret Atwood I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar. -- Anonymous B "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) B "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi B "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers B Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children. -- Mark Twain B I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke B
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