First train to Jaffna, 2014, Sri Lanka.

Email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.

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Test run to Jaffna from Pallai on the newly constructed railway track by IRCON (Indian Railway Construction Company Limited) on 22.09.2014 is attached.
The last train Yarl Devi (Train No 7 UP) worked by Mr T. Maharajah Head Guard went to KKS on Monday 11th June 1990.  Article in the Journal (June 2002) by The Sri Lanka Railway Past Employees Welfare Association (UK) Attached. President Mahinda Rajapaksa After 24 Years 4 months and 2 days will start the regular train service to Jaffna on Monday 13th October 2014.

Baby boy can't stop giggling hysterically at his father's cough.

Little Heath was enjoying a popsicle when his dad, Andrew Lister of Nova Scotia, let out a cough, causing him to erupt in peals of laughter.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2785096/What-s-funny-Chubby-cheeked-baby-boy-t-stop-giggling-hysterically-father-s-cough.html

9 October 2014

China 'overtakes U.S. as the the world's largest economy'.

IMF says economy is now worth £11 trillion as America falls into second place for the first time since 1872

The US has been the global leader since it overtook Britain in 1872, but has now lost its status as top dog. Pictured, American President Barack Obama.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2785766/China-overtakes-U-S-world-s-largest-economy-IMF-says-economy-worth-11-trillion-America-falls-second-place-time-1872.html

9 October 2014

Serwavila, Sri Lanka, seen through a cell-phone camera (Nokia C6).

Please click on web-link below with speakers on:-

http://youtu.be/qmaVlYZWMSk

Thief steals UK triathlete Jessica Earp's £4,000 bicycle.

Police in Camden, London are hunting this man who is suspected of stealing the £4,000 bicycle belonging to GB triathlete Jessica Earp. The thief made off with the bicycle after hacking off the lock.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771733/The-Great-British-Thief-steals-UK-triathlete-Jessica-Earp-s-4-000-bicycle-broad-daylight-busy-London-street.html

28 September 2014

PS.

Somewhere in the mid 1990s, a surgeon from Sri Lanka went on a holiday to the UK. While doing a locum appointment in a Surgical Clinic in a hospital in London, he had to see a patient who carried with him a bicycle wheel, 'to be seen by the Doctor'. The surgeon ignored the bicycle wheel and concentrated in solving the patient's medical problem. After sorting that out he felt curious and asked the patient why he carried a bicycle wheel with him into the clinic. The patient replied 'Are you new to London? If I leave the bicycle intact but locked, someone would steal it. I therefore locked it and dismantled the front wheel to carry it with me. This way I can get home on my own bicycle'. That was London in the 1990s.

Dr John Rae finally honoured for telling truth about cannibalism'

Dr John Rae was sent to the Arctic to find out what had happened to Sir John Franklin and his crew, but had his reputation ruined when he reported back shocking news of cannibalism.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2772090/Great-Arctic-explorer-finally-honoured-having-career-discredited-reporting-British-voyagers-cannibalism.html

28 September 2014

Parakeet cull that costs £1k per bird

A government scheme to get rid of a rare species of wild parrot in the UK has cost taxpayers almost £1,000 per bird. In five years £259,000 has been spent.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771330/Parakeet-cull-costs-1-000-bird-Total-259-000-spent-eradicating-just-62-wild-monk-parrakeets-removing-212-eggs-nests-past-five-years.html

27 September 2014