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Microsoft Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers


Microsoft Software

The core packages but you will have to provide proof of educational status. This can be installed on the home computer by parents if the children qualify.


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£52.99

StarOffice 6.0


Sun Microsystems

Since being acquired by Sun from the German authors this has been steadily improved with the help of the millions who used the free version. Some system builders are now providing this as the package instead of the MS product at ten times the price.


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Norton AntiVirus 2003 (new version is Norton Antivirus 2004, asin: B0000B3A4U...


If you don't use one of the anti-virus packages you are taking an increasing risk of having your computer invaded. The results can be unpleasant.


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9 March 2020 - What's new

March 2020
  • ‘Do your homework. This is a very competitive genre and you need to be aware of not only current novels, but current television series and films too. There is nothing worse than working on a story for months only to find out it has already been done.
  Read more

International Welsh Poetry Competition 2020

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Closing date: 
31 May 2020
Entry: 
Open to all No entry fee £6 for first poems, then a sliding scale
Prize: 
1st Prize £500, 2nd Prize £250 and 3rd Prize £100

Judge Sally Spedding

1st Prize - £500
2nd Prize - £250
3d Prize - £100
plus 17 runners-up, specially commended entries and publication in a future anthology.

More details

Advice for aspiring crime writers

9 March 2020

‘Do your homework. This is a very competitive genre and you need to be aware of not only current novels, but current television series and films too. There is nothing worse than working on a story for months only to find out it has already been done.  Read more

‘My advice to writers, whether they are inspired or repelled by my work, is to read and reread, write and rewrite, keep to the grindstone, do not be swayed by fame or adulation, the work is the absolute prize.'

— Edna O’Brien

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9 March 2020 - What's new

March 2020
  • ‘Do your homework. This is a very competitive genre and you need to be aware of not only current novels, but current television series and films too. There is nothing worse than working on a story for months only to find out it has already been done.
  Read more

International Welsh Poetry Competition 2020

Information

Closing date: 
31 May 2020
Entry: 
Open to all No entry fee £6 for first poems, then a sliding scale
Prize: 
1st Prize £500, 2nd Prize £250 and 3rd Prize £100

Judge Sally Spedding

1st Prize - £500
2nd Prize - £250
3d Prize - £100
plus 17 runners-up, specially commended entries and publication in a future anthology.

More details

Advice for aspiring crime writers

9 March 2020

‘Do your homework. This is a very competitive genre and you need to be aware of not only current novels, but current television series and films too. There is nothing worse than working on a story for months only to find out it has already been done.  Read more

‘My advice to writers, whether they are inspired or repelled by my work, is to read and reread, write and rewrite, keep to the grindstone, do not be swayed by fame or adulation, the work is the absolute prize.'

— Edna O’Brien