# Party tents" or "marquees" are common for large weddings, fairs, corporate hospitality events and other gatherings. They are made from PE (polythene) or the better quality ones from PVC. 'DIY' marquees are available up to 20 feet (6m) wide. 30 to 150 feet (9m to 45m) widths are very expensive and require specialized equipment and skill to erect, so they must usually be rented. Many corporations own large (9m to 45m wide) marquee tents but have them installed and maintained by qualified professionals. Party tents are held down with tensioned ratchets and/or stakes. Sizes range from 10 x 10 feet (3m x 3m) to 150 x 400 feet (45m x 120m). Marquees / party tents are dramatic and very strong.
Marquee hire in Liverpool
# A pole marquee consists of canvas and more recently PVC, under tension by means of centre poles, side poles and guy ropes which are attached to ground stakes hammered into soft surfaces only such as a lawn or field. Hand made of white cotton canvas, traditional poled marquees are more attractive but much less practical and versatile than aluminium frame marquees. The modern PVC traditional pole marquee was introduced due to the material being easier to clean than woven canvas and giving them a longer hire life span.
# Aluminium Frame Marquees - Aluminium frame tents have no centre poles or guy ropes, can be erected on any surface and adjacent to buildings or annexe tents. Much more stable and can span a much wider area over pools, flower beds or trees.

Liverpool SoundCity is a city centre music festival and conference on Merseyside in England's North West. The May 2009 lineup includes The Zutons, The Rascals, Metronomy, White Lies, Little Boots, Clinic, Cage the Elephant, Johnny Foreigner.
"A music industry festival that will rival South by Southwest (SXSW)" - The Observer

It's being billed as "the best job in the world" - six months working as a "caretaker" on Hamilton Island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. But with competition for the post sure to be cut-throat, how can you make your application stand out?

As winter gloom settles in across the UK, Tourism Queensland has cannily cast a wide net in its search for someone to take the caretaker job. The indigo skies and rolling golden sandy beaches of Hamilton Island couldn't look more appealing to your average Briton at the moment. As if these weren't enough, the job comes with a pay packet of nearly £70,000 and a rent-free three-bedroom villa, complete with pool.

In return, the successful applicant will be expected to spend the six-month contract exploring the idyllic surroundings, filing weekly blog, photo diary and video updates and conducting "ongoing media interviews".

A geography background, any experience of wildlife management, a role as a forest warden, some kind of outdoor role involved in monitoring and observing - that's going to put you ahead of 75% of the other applicants
Corrine Mills, HR adviser

Interested? The first step in securing this role is to send a 60-second video application explaining why you are the ideal person for it. But what do you need to do, and to emphasise, to put your application near the top of the pile?

Welcome to the Trafford Parent Partnership Service website

Trafford Parent Partnership Service is for parents/carers:

* whose children have been assessed as having special educational needs;
* who believe their children may have special educational needs;
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The move, backed by both Republican and Democratic leaders, allows the Treasury to spend up to $700bn (£380bn) buying bad debts from ailing banks in the US.

President George W Bush urged lawmakers to support the bill, which needs approval by both houses of Congress.

Some Republicans have voiced objections to massive state intervention in the financial sector.

The deal was announced after days of high-level wrangling between Republicans and Democrats in Congress over the content of the bill.

Both parties had vigorous objections to a proposal submitted last week by Treasury Secretary

Henry Paulson that would have given him sweeping powers over how the money was spent.

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it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
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preserves of loaves and fishes, that dork things in general were
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seventy-five.  Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at
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attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a
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to the human turnspit race than any communications yet received through
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attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either
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falsified by the result. On the second branch of the question, I
will only remark, that unless I ran through that part of my ingles
inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet dripstone.
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