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Government Office for the North West - Official government office bringing together the regional operations of the Departments for Education and Skills; Work and Pensions; Trade and Industry; Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Transport, Local Government and the Regions. The Home Office, Police, National Health Service and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport are also represented.
North West Textile Network - News, information and discussion for all textile-related sector interests. Offering to inform, develop and promote the North West's textile industry nationally and internationally.
Northwest Development Agency - The official RDA, managing the economic development and regeneration of the region; promoting business efficiency, inward investment and competitiveness; enhancing training and skills; and contributing to sustainable development.
Tagish - North West - Links to local government sites in the region.
The Countryside Agency: North West - Working to achieve the best for the English countryside through conservation, research, and influencing central and local government. Includes the area's State of the Countryside Report and the Rural Services Survey.
North West Regional Assembly - Includes news and press releases regarding the North West of England.
DEFRA - North West Regional Chapter - Geographic area and physical content; environment; social issues; rural business; impact of previous MAFF and non-MAFF schemes; proposed strategy, objectives and priorities for action. England Rural Development Programme from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Northwest Regional Development Agency - China-UK - A N.R.D.A. supported website for civic links with China and the UK-China international trade services and investment in the Northwest England.
Tameside MBC - Local borough council site offering details of homes for rent in the area, education, leisure, and details of district assemblies.
North West of England European Information Relay - Information about European issues as they affect the region, with directories of further resources and news. Supported by the European Commission Representation in the UK.
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And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Government It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Government I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Government 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. -- Bob Edwards Government My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Government When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Government "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Government "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus May you never leave your marriage alive. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge Government Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Government Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton My other wife is beautiful. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Government "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Government There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks, in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on the fl Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Government The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. 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(Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Government "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." 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