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Exclusive Featured Serial on www.thisisUll.com Articles Part Three - 1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet

By John Boldock
	After a couple of weeks in the Icelandic waters we settled into a routine. We would go several days with no action then have a few days of gun boat activity. We had now started to work in liaison with the Royal Navy and we were allocated an ex-Royal Navy liaison officer - his job was to act as a "representative on behalf of Her Majesty's Government". Read more...

Articles - Freshman Week in Hull University

	University of Hull celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, with 16,000 students from more than 100 countries engaged in the study of over 50 degree disciplines. ranging from traditional academic subjects to dance, gender studies and internet computing. Read more...

	Exclusive Featured Serial on www.thisisUll.com Articles Part Five - Diaries From Detox, days 9, 10 Received my blood results today .. All liver functions etc. normal except my Gamma count, which is an indication as to how much alcohol I've been drinking. The normal range is between 7 and 33. Mine was 99. Read more...

Articles - Truth Is Seldom Stranger Than Fiction by Trevor Edge

	Hi. My name is Todd Everspawn, or rather it could be, because I'm here today to talk about positive lying. I'm sure very few people reading this article, or indeed those taking no interest in it whatsoever, have got through their life to date without telling a lie. Read more...

Articles - "We do it our way" By Starpaw

	The reason I love Hull, yes love, the reason why I can remember facts like it was the second most bombed city during the war, or citing famous people who lived or live here is because it's so innately, well, Hull. Plus if we get a brand spanking new bus station, where are all the 20p scrounging townies going to go? Poor buggers ;) Read more...

Exclusive Featured Serial on www.thisisUll.com Articles Part Four - Diaries From Detox, day 7,8

	Brilliant. No longer am I just alcohol dependent but I have also turned into a narcotics addict. The Librium has been reduced fairly substantially and its beginning to hurt. Next thing you know I'll be sniffing glue with 14 year olds. I was actually waiting by the medicine cabinet tonight for my drugs. If Santa had dropped down the chimney I'd have mugged him for Librium. Read more...

Exclusive Featured Serial on www.thisisUll.com Articles Part Two - 1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet

By John Boldock
	Our job was to steam up to the stern (rear) of the likely victim and try to protect the trawler by forcing the gunboat to veer around and force him past the bows (front bit) of the trawler. Read more...

Articles - My September 11th 2001 By Mo

	I'd spent the better part of my working life in Wall Street, having migrated over on the software developer slave trade back in the early 1990's, so Manhattan was in effect my second home, and I had often cause to visit clients in various floors of the nearby twin towers. Read more...

Exclusive Featured Serial on www.thisisUll.com Part One - 1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet

By John Boldock
	It was a nice morning as we congregated outside the offices of United Towing Co in Nelson Street. This building was once the ticket office for the now defunct Humber ferry. For a few coppers you could steam across to the other side of the Humber to a land still inhabited by alien life forms more commonly known as "Grimsbyites". Read more...

Articles - Burglary in Hull

	I really didn't want to write about this. But I've decided that maybe I should. Life in Hull is about bad things too. Last week we were burgled. One small window left open and one tempting bicycle on view. Read more...

Exclusive Featured Serial on www.thisisUll.com Articles Part Three - Diaries From Detox

	A relatively good day, although emotions still very up and down. Doctors round was first. He appeared more concerned about the score between England and the West Indies than poor old Kevin who was suffering from fairly severe withdrawal symptoms - but let's get our priorities right! Read more...

Articles - HULL #1 - Hull gets flashed!
	By Rich Mills Instructions had gone out and it was all in the lap of the god's. The Hull Flash Crowd came out from behind their computer screens and faced the world and each other for the first time. The location was Victoria Square, the time 1:00pm, the act was the Hokey-Cokey. Read more...

Articles - This Is East 'Ull By Nicholas Boldock

	Way back in the October of 1975, I popped my head out in Hedon Road Maternity Hospital, wailed a bit, and said hello to East Hull, which was to be my home for the next 18 years, give or take. Read more...

Exclusive Featured Serial on www.thisisUll.com Articles Part Two - Diaries From Detox

	The unit is small but fairly cosy with three 'clients'. The major problem is the lack of facilities and range of things to do. There is a gym which I shall make good use of. Another bonus is that I have adopted the mantle of CD maestro - dance music all the way! Read more...

Articles - What Is a Flash Crowd?
	By Brain (Organiser of the Hull Flash Crowd) In 1973 Larry Niven wrote as short story called Flash Crowd. In which society had access to cheap teleportation systems. Thus the consequences of almost free and instantaneous teleportation booths, was what became known as a flash crowd. The result of which being huge crowds turning up at major events, or interesting news stories. Read more...

Articles - Stranger in a Strange Land
	By a Bloke from Stoke I first moved to Hull from Stoke-on-Trent in September 2001. Romance and then a job offer in the area and I was on my way. After moving to good old 'Ull I soon learned some important lessons. Read more...

Articles - Rudston Monolith by Nicholas Boldock
	Think of standing stones and you automatically think of Stonehenge, yes? That beautiful and world-renowned monument sited smack in the middle of greenest Wiltshire, spiritual home to druid and crusty alike, scene of many a cider-fuelled Solstice party. Read more...

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Articles - Alcohol Awareness Part One - Diaries From Detox
	For most people alcohol is an enjoyable part of their lives. However, for a minority it equates to being in a prison from which it is a nightmare to escape. It is one of the most pernicious, socially acceptable, underestimated poisons on the market..... Read more...

Articles - Blood On The Streets, Blood On Our Hands
	By Rich Mills This is an after thought, an addition to the previous piece. An after thought! That is a problem some of my friends are having at the moment. And somewhere out there in Hull, there are some people with thoughts of what they have done weighing heavily on their consciences, or so I hope. Read more...

Articles - Memories Of Pearson Park
	By Rich Mills I love Pearson Park It's my Mecca, my place of pilgrimage where I worship the gods in their many forms. The Sun God is a favourite of many, and brings out the all kinds into the city park. A place so far removed from the stress of everyday city life, it could be anywhere! Pearson Park is a Read more...

Articles - Wilberforce Turning In His Grave...
	(Diversity In The City Of Hull) By Rich Mills When I started thinking about this piece, I was originally just going to write about the evening out I had on Saturday (July 19th). I and others around me experienced the cultural diversity that Hull has to offer. A Zulu wedding, a Salsa Night in aid of Deaf Children, Déjà Vu at The Welly, my diverse bunch of mates. Read more...

Articles - NEW BEGINNINGS
	by Uncle Jim In late 2001, disillusioned UCATT members in the caravan building industry were looking for another union to represent them, one which would not sell them out in their disputes with their employers. Some of them approached the Hull Direct Action Group, some of whose members were known to them from previous campaigns. Read more...