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When you are writing a story or poem, whether for an educational assignment, or to ultimately send to a publisher, you have to try and grip of your reader’s imagination within the first two or three paragraphs.

Diaries allow us an opportunity to see into the mind of an author.

Voters need to remember that it is their grandchildren’s future they are deciding on 23rd June.

Once in Italy, Hannibal decimated the Roman armies, who were terrified of his war elephants – the Panzer tanks of the ancient world.

The same people who vote on new bills or get promoted to minister or secretary of state, make idealogical decisions on how major systems should function with no clear idea about what goes on.

It was in Medieval Europe that trademarks began to take on a greater importance, when guilds of various traders were formed, each adopting their own distinctive mark or badge.

Some say the additional knowledge that half the world is watching you – and not just the theatre audience – adds an unwelcome dimension to the performance.

It has been suggested that the National Parks came about, in 1949, because of the infamous ‘great trespass’, when ramblers walked across some private land, claiming the right to roam in their own country.

You always need to be aware that there may be – in fact, probably will be – alterations in order to condense it into the required format and time.

Shakespeare is also believed to have been the first to use terms such as, ‘green-eyed monster’ and ‘in a pickle’…