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When qualified skipper Peter Herbert realised that 80% of professional boat captains in the Mediterranean were actually British, he decided to offer English weather forecasts, based on official French government data.
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As master of Balliol College, Oxford from 1989-94 the first American to hold the post, and the first scientist he would pedal out eagerly into the countryside, his burly frame well waterproofed against the English weather, to see what he might see.
ECONOMIST: Barry Blumberg
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Thousands of fans braved the predictably English summer weather (torrential rain interspersed with steamingly unpleasant bursts of heat) to pack into the hall of the Brighton Centre to see and play both current and unreleased PC games.
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