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  • The rink offers daily courses for the whole of half-term week. The Sun
  • Lately, Scotland has had something of a half-term breather but swine flu has been quick to catch-up. Whitehaven News headlines
  • There's a touch of charm, but the cliched storytelling lacks that vital spark to send it soaring above the obligatory half-term movies.
  • I visited I-knit as a half-term treat a few weeks ago and was impressed by the range of publications and impedimenta on sale, more really than the yarn. - for example, a shawl pin with an ebony stick to secure it. St Patrick's Day
  • Much of last week, for Britain, was wasted while David Cameron pottered around the Middle East with a posse of arms manufacturers and Nick Clegg strapped his half-term skis on. Libya: Gaddafi's cronies must desert or be damned | Observer editorial
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  • Half-term was mind-numbingly unproductive in terms of writing, perhaps because I'm still shagged out after the house move.
  • The anonymous blogger of "Sex At Oxbridge" describes herself as a "fairly attractive and highly intelligent Oxbridge student currently shagging my way through the half-term hump". Medindia Health News
  • Package holidays cost on average a third more during school summer holidays and the price of flights increases fourfold in the spring half-term. Times, Sunday Times
  • THIS school half-term will see thousands of families jetting off to catch the last of the short haul sun. The Sun
  • A half-term governor and failed vice presidential candidate used gunsights to mark legislative districts targeted for defeat. Norm Stamper: "Please Don't Be Mad at Me"
  • Just don't expect to get a go during the half-term holiday. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's been a very good half-term week. Times, Sunday Times
  • It takes place in the middle of the school half-term break when families are expected to flock to the attraction.
  • May half-term will be cheaper than a week in high summer and hot enough if you head south. Times, Sunday Times
  • Priority was given to motorways, ensuring that there was fuel for the thousands who headed south and west for the half-term holidays. Times, Sunday Times
  • The children, who had spent the half-term holiday in Salou, were reported by a fellow pupil for trying to sneak home the animal.
  • He was the last witness before the inquest adjourned for the school half-term holiday. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is too early to talk with confidence about the weather for the bank holiday and half-term but there are signs that things will be more settled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now comes a poll that shows likely Republican voters in Iowa -- home of the first-in-the-nation caucus -- are cooling to the half-term governor's charms. Iowa Republicans cool to Sarah Palin
  • They say youths have hurled abuse at elderly shoppers, scaring them away, and that the problem gets worse during the half-term school holidays.
  • The activity centre was open for half-term fun on two days this week.
  • It's a shame the same can't be said about the half-term Governor Sarah Palin. barry g Palin fires back at Schwarzenegger
  • Supporters who had come to watch the squad in their half-term flocked to him in recognition of his form this season, leading Gerard Houllier to accept that the supporters have finally come around. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • More than 2 million people are expected to pass through UK airports this weekend as travellers start the half-term getaway. Ash cloud: 2m will take to skies in holiday getaway
  • he came to visit at half-term
  • Half-term and a sweet-scented, sun-drenched garden is an Agatha Christie-esque setting for tales of random murder. Breaking news; The Reith Lectures; Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?
  • I think it was because the kids were on half-term and were stuck for things to do.
  • This is his half-term from school and it's an excuse for them to spend a couple of nights in a hotel. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
  • Tickets are valid over all weekends and include half-term. The Sun
  • Joli: for many foreigners it was half-term/spring break, so many families were planning to go away anyway erb: exactly. Boing Boing
  • My annual salary is rather less than what my friends spend on a week's skiing holiday at half-term. Times, Sunday Times
  • York's traffic was plunged into rush-hour gridlock again as half-term holidaymakers joined commuters on the congested roads.
  • As half-term beckons why not round up the kids and head for Leksakslandet which claims to be The Local - Sweden's news in English
  • The forecast for the end of week and start of the half-term school holidays is for the unsettled weather to continue, but eventually improve as the wind changes direction. Cold winds and snow forecast for UK
  • Tickets are valid over all weekends and include half-term. The Sun
  • It may be time to get a currency card before the half-term holidays. Times, Sunday Times
  • May half-term will be cheaper than a week in high summer and hot enough if you head south. Times, Sunday Times
  • A chance to go afloat on a working scientific research vessel to learn how the oceans work is on offer this half-term.
  • I was in the western Tyrol the other week for half-term. Times, Sunday Times
  • We're now midway through that period, and the information commissioner – the guy who will have to enforce the new rules – has just issued a half-term report on how things are going. EU cookie laws could cause unwary firms to get their fingers burnt
  • Taking the family skiing over Christmas or half-term can cost a fortune, so would it make more sense to invest in your own Alpine property?
  • It was a fun way of returning to school after the half-term holiday for the pupils at the federated school that has its junior section at East Kennett and its infants' classes at Lockeridge.
  • All in all, the half-term report has a familiar tone: ‘sound progress, but could do better’.
  • Let that be a cautionary tale for those on half-term escapes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rollercoaster had been due to be reopen for half-term next week. Times, Sunday Times
  • I want to have the week that the boys are on half-term holiday.
  • Scott is heading for a CD prize after clocking up perfect days for all of this half-term.
  • The pool was closed for two weeks in February, including half-term week, for a complete overhaul of the electrics, pool filters and the mechanics of the moveable floor.
  • As if the good people of Kentucky didn't have it bad enough with a senator like Jim Bunning, now they'll have to listen to the idiotic rantings of half-term Gov. Palin stars in new Rand Paul commercial
  • PRICES plunge once the half-term peak week is out of way. The Sun
  • Yesterday, children from several York schools took part in a Viking procession before they broke up for the half-term holiday.
  • And with perfect timing, the law will be up and running for the half-term holidays. The Sun
  • Owing to the half-term break we were unable to contact Mrs Holmes.
  • Oh, that IS modest (becomes half-term giddy half-termébouler) Kog Zadare, only living person...
  • Much of last week, for Britain, was wasted while David Cameron pottered around the Middle East with a posse of arms manufacturers and Nick Clegg strapped his half-term skis on. Libya: Gaddafi's cronies must desert or be damned | Observer editorial
  • May half-term will be cheaper than a week in high summer and hot enough if you head south. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was away for half-term last week. Times, Sunday Times
  • The letters were issued on Friday and got to our members' homes on Saturday at the start of their half-term break.
  • The May half-term is a chance to get children out of the house and into the fresh air.
  • As school gates closed for half-term, two more Sutton secondaries celebrated achieving specialist school status this week.
  • I cut out pictures of monkeys from old magazines, and by the week before half-term, my project book was bulging with them.

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