No doubt you remember your life at school as a pupil
- the long lessons, stringent rules, chaotic classrooms
- but what was

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Long, irregular hours; occasional risk of injury; & often smelly & dirty. Job satisfaction guaranteed. This is the life Maz Harwood signed up to when she became a vet, & she has never regretted it. She now has a beautiful baby boy, George, & she will be marrying fellow vet, Alex Fox-Gifford. But recently things have become difficult. ...

British comedy horror in which an Indian mother takes her obsession with marriage a little too far. Widow Mrs Sethi (Shabana Azmi) is desperate to see her only daughter, Rupi (Goldy Notay), get married. When Rupi is rudely rejected by a series of suitors, Mrs Sethi resorts to cooking her killer curry in order to bump them off, one by one. But the spirits of her victims soon come back to haunt her as they are unable to be reincarnated until their murderer dies. Mrs Sethi must now kill herself in order to free the spirits, but is determined to get her daughter married off before she enters the afterlife. ...

Frank Capra directs this heartwarming Christmas fantasy. George Bailey (James Stewart) has spent his entire life in the small town of Bedford Falls. Despite his yearning to see the world, George has always sacrificed his personal ambitions for the sake of his family & the local community, settling down to marry his childhood sweetheart, Mary (Donna Reed), & raise a family. However, when a huge amount of money goes missing from the savings & loans company he panics & finds himself preparing to commit suicide. However, he is shown the error of this idea by Clarence (Henry Travers), an angel who has been sent to Earth in order to earn his wings. To this end, Clarence shows George just how badly Bedford Falls & its residents would have turned out had he never been born. ...

Frank Capra directs this heartwarming Christmas fantasy. George Bailey (James Stewart) has spent his entire life in the small town of Bedford Falls. Despite his yearning to see the world, George has always sacrificed his personal ambitions for the sake of his family & the local community, settling down to marry his childhood sweetheart, Mary (Donna Reed), & raise a family. However, when a huge amount of money goes missing from the savings & loans company he panics & finds himself preparing to commit suicide. However, he is shown the error of this idea by Clarence (Henry Travers), an angel who has been sent to Earth in order to earn his wings. To this end, Clarence shows George just how badly Bedford Falls & its residents would have turned out had he never been born. ...

Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater & a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerised patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? This title collects over 500 of the strangest, & funniest-sounding words in the English language, & traces them back to their often puzzling origins. ...

Musical comedy. Ken Millar (George Cole) & Ray Thompson (Terence Morgan) are two struggling young songwriters dreaming of hitting the big time with their appealing melodies. However no one has any interest in them
- until the songwriting duo meet a pretty French singer, Georgie (Mylene Nicole), who showcases one of their songs.
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Written to fit the new Edexcel

Specification B, this book takes an issues & enquiry-based approach to learning. It

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Endorsed by Edexcel, this work serves as a revision book for students following Edexcel GCSE

Specification B. It

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