The Herald - A True British Triumph

Advantages: Ahead of its time
Disadvantages: Handled very poorly. Slow.

...~ ~ When I was a teenager back in 1963, the first car my father ever bought was an old Ford Anglia in which I learned my basic driving skills. Three years later it was traded in, and a brand spanking new car arrived on the doorstep. A Triumph Herald 12/50, in lovely gleaming white, matching white colour-coded rubber bumpers, with a canvas slide-back sunroof, and to top it all, a RADIO. This was nirvana for a 15-year-old boy heavily into the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and all the popular music of the time, and a vast improvement on the old Dansette transistor radio that had sat on the dashboard of the old Anglia, which had truly dreadful reception. ~ ~ In those days cars still had to be ?run in?, and great care was taken for the first thousand miles, with no heavy strain being put on the engine, and the top speed limited (by...

the_mad_cabbie 16.12.2003 (20.12.2003) · Read review
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Heralding in A New Era With Old Parts

Advantages: Ease of maintenance. Running costs. Quite advanced in many ways
Disadvantages: Strange mixture of old and new ideas. 'Odd' cornering to say the least

...I guess we all remember our first cars with a degree of affection, especially when the rose-coloured glasses of a thirty-three-year passage of time enhance that memory. SOB STORY I didn?t have anyone to treat me to driving lessons on my 17th birthday ? I?d come from a non car-owning family, and so it all had to wait until I could afford it myself, driving lessons, vehicle purchase and insurance. In the end, I passed my test and bought a car sometime around my 21st birthday. NO PLEASE, DON?T THROW MONEY ? I?LL GET MY OWN I was determined that I wasn?t going to go down the route of ?decrepit old banger? for my first car (girlfriends, yes, cars, no) so in 1971, I bought a five year old low-ish mileage Triumph Herald 12/50. Lovely it looked too, in that classy royal blue of the day touched off by those white rubber strakes that...

BNibbles 11.05.2004 (12.05.2004) · Read review
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Herald - Not So Good

Advantages: Close to station and local amenities
Disadvantages: More like student accommodation

...After writing my review on Edinburgh at New Year, I thought it would be worth my time writing a review on the accommodation that we stayed in. Finding accommodation for New Year is hard, you can normally get accommodation close to the town for the 30th December and 1st January but New Years Eve itself isvery hard as a lot of people only stay for the day. I searched the web and came across the Herald House hotel, they did not have booking facilities on their own website so I gave them a call and luckily they had a double room for the three days over New Year. Bonus. Location Situated approximately 5 mins taxi drive from Haymarket Station. Taxi's are extremely well priced in Edinburgh especialy during that time of year, I thought it would cost a fortune but they are very competitive in comparison with taxi's from where i come...

blondgem 22.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Herald House, Edinburgh

Heralding a new dawn

Advantages: Free manure from delivery coach and intimate meeting with the lord himself,
Disadvantages: horses trampled next doors roses

...I eargerly awaited the arrival of my Nokia 5200 and was pleasently surprised at the packaging, it came in a crystal coach pulled by 12 white horses and a coachman wearing white silk and crsytal shoes with the finest silken bows. The phone was brought to me on a velvet cushion with a final bow and curtsey and as i opened the box a troup of trumpeteers came out and heralded a fanfare whilst 8 white doves emitted from the box with the ribbons of its packaging in their tiny beaks. As the box fell open a light emitted and lo there was the phone! I deep voice bellowed from the heavens "This is the phone i made in my image, treat it well and use it justly, for i am the lord and my word is law!" With trrepidation i turned it on and was surprised, Quite average actually!...

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Free paper - and it shows.

Advantages: Good if you run out of toilet roll, or want to know that Mrs Jones cat is ten next week
Disadvantages: Too many ads, poor print quality, no real stories

...The Herald & Post is one of two free newspapers you\'re likely to get if you live in the vacinity of Halton. It\'s meant to be a free newspaper, but I suspect it\'s really just spam with some stories included by accident. The paper, all 42 pages of it (and thats not counting the 20-odd page estate agent supplement you get every week) is packed with adverts for virtually everything imaginable. They\'ve got to be able to fund the paper, I agree, but this is unbelieveable. Count the stories and you end up with 10 at the most. Many of these are irrelevant as well. Do I really want to know about some couple who have been married for 50 years? My grandparents aren\'t that far off being married for 50 years and I don\'t think they\'re planning on announcing it to the world by getting the local newspaper to cover it. There is also...

ayanayuk 03.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of Herald & Post

We'll beat the credit crunch!

Advantages: Looks lovely, keep us warm, free fuel
Disadvantages: A bit of extra cleaning

...of ventilation put through the wall. Since our walls are about a metre thick and made of solid stone we thought better of it! We also decided to go for a stove that would burn safely overnight and keep the chill out in the winter. We ultimately decided on the Hunter Herald Slimline 5 and then began to check where we could get the best price. The stoveman on EBay won this contest with a price of £505 with free courier service to addresses in the UK. Delivery was easily arranged and the fire arrived ready to be fitted. We also bought a flue damper for a further £21. We employed a local firm to come and fit it for us which involved using a cherry picker to remove the old flue liner and insert another one. They made a great job of fitting our new stove and charged us about £878 which included a companion set and some cleaning products. This sounds...

SusanLesley 26.08.2008 · Read review
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America Calling

Advantages: Very well wrtitten concise news, free
Disadvantages: American focus

...I spend many days of my working life in hotels in Europe. At one time it was almost impossible to keep up to date with the News due to the absence of English newspapers and of course typical of many English abroad my grasp of French, Flemish, German or Italian is not sufficient to follow things in detail. Things however have changed quite considerably. Many hotels have BBC through satellite or failing that CNN. Some hotels even now have English papers such as the Times which have special editions printed locally. Finally there is the American papers like USA Today or the International Herald Tribune which seem to be there to satisfy disorientated Americans unable to function without news with an American accent. As a passing though if we British believe we are bad at languages – listen to an American. The International Herald...

polydeuces 03.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of International Herald Tribune

Pretty decent budget hotel in the Big Apple

Advantages: Good price, good location
Disadvantages: Bad shower, stuffy room

...available in the lobby, but nothing too exciting. Other Amenities rating (including staff): 8/10 The Price: We paid $129 a night, for 2 nights. Which works out approximately 140GBP - which works out at 35GBP per person, per night. Not bad for New York City. Price rating: 9/10 GRAND TOTAL FOR THE HERALD SQUARE HOTEL: 7/10 (52/70 to be exact) I'm giving 3 stars, due to the small but irritating problems we had as explained above. If I was to stay again, I trust I would be able to give it 4 stars. Would I stay the again?: When we stayed at the Herald, it was going through a series of renovations. Which meant that we could hear workmen too-ing and fro-ing outside our door and as we left each morning. They left random planks of wood and gubbins in the small corridors, which weren't appreciated, but weren...

MarcoG 18.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Herald Square, New York City

A gentle whisperer amidst the howling

Advantages: A real source of independent and reliable information.
Disadvantages: Unique and unmatched... will it keep up to itself, and for how long?

...The International Herald Tribune is to my opinion one of the most serious and realiable newspapers around, and one of the last bulwarks of the good old school of journalism. There was a time when I, although an Italian living in Italy, decided to subscribe to IHT. I wanted to be informed with the real facts. I wanted to understand what was really going on around me. At that time I didn't really trust national newspapers, and by the way things haven't change much since. IHT, to my surprise, was capable to deliver a very good and truly independent information, providing an often sharp and comprehensive focus even on delicate Italian issues. I appreciate IHT ability to talk about very delicate news that most national papers usually bury in the trash hoping they will pass unnoticed. The reader is thus enabled to learn precious...

just.amore 06.11.2003 · Read review
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Appearances can be deceiving

Advantages: had a bed, shower, toilet etc...
Disadvantages: the bed, facilities within hotel, food

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fuzzibear 28.06.2004 · Read review
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