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Oliver Conway has been a committed digital media and marketing manager at a London-based rubbish removal company. He finds handling residential and commercial waste challenging in a way but also very rewarding and fundamental when it comes to helping the environment and raising eco awareness on that matter. Oliver believes that it is essential to make people aware of the many proper ways to dispose of their waste and aims to inspire such initiatives throughout the UK and beyond. To find out mor…

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A Day in the Life of a High Street Legal Aid Lawyer

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By Oliver Conway Verified
| notesfrombelow.org
There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it – David Graeber.1 The cat wakes me up at 5am. I bathe and check my emails. I put on an off-the-peg-3-piece suit and try and find an un-stained tie. I am a 35-year-old family lawyer, and I don’t bother with breakfast. I walk to work on the same streets that I used to walk to primary school, almost 30 years ago.
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Man becomes first amputee to swim North Channel Original

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By Oliver Conway Verified
| BBC Verified
A British man has become the first amputee to swim the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Scotland solo. Jonty Warneken, who lost his left leg after a car crash in 1994, completed the feat in 15 hours and 24 minutes. The distance is 21.4 miles (34.5km) as the crow flies, but with currents pushing him off course, Mr Warneken ended up travelling 33.5 miles (54km). The North Channel is considered the toughest of the "Oceans Seven" swim challenges around the world.
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Congo word 'most untranslatable'

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By Oliver Conway Verified
| BBC Verified
By Oliver Conway BBC News The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo. It came top of a list drawn up in consultation with 1,000 linguists. Ilunga means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time". It seems straightforward enough, but the 1,000 language experts identified it as the hardest word to translate.
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