Learning about science happened naturally: the girls learned about wind turbines and renewable energies at a wind farm, and about physical forces and light at Sir Isaac Newton's house.
If the BBC has to think harder in future about priorities, while still achieving critical mass in the new digital marketplace, then so much the better.The BBC, says Mr Davies, needs a strategy which is odd, in the light of Sir John Birt's legendary love of strategy papers.
And out near Old Trafford, a pair of drivers idling at a red light on Sir Matt Busby Way waved over two ticket scalpers before sending them back almost immediately after hearing the asking prices for tickets to the game everyone is talking about.
Police chiefs nationally have rewritten the rulebook for the handling of police informers in the light of Sir John's findings, and the Home Office is being asked to change immigration law, which allows foreign criminals with highly dangerous track records to be released into the community while their applications to stay in the country are considered.
Working with Mendes on the BBC's "epic film versions" of Richard II, Henry IV part I and II, and Henry V will be some of British theatre's leading lights, including Sir Richard Eyre, Simon Russell Beale and Rupert Goold, director of Enron.
It sucked in, and in many cases ruined, most of the country's aristocracy - dukes seem to have been particularly susceptible to its blandishments - as well as its leading intellectual lights including Sir Isaac Newton (who sold out in good time and then, despite his office as Master of the Mint, fatally bought back in at the wrong moment), Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.
"You wanna kill the light, chief?" "Sorry, sir," he said, slipping the flashlight into his belt.
Newcastle is also famous, as any fule kno, for the invention of the electric light bulb by Sir Joseph Swan whose house in Gateshead was the first in the world to have one of these useful things.
Five hours… One of the things that make a New Yorker's holiday heart clench just a little is the speed with which today's beacon of light becomes… Sir Tom Jones, the singer, who was born in Wales and now lives in Los Angeles, was recently driven through the Bronx, in the company… This winter's heat wave has created problems for a lot of ventures: fur-coat sales, ski weekends, pond-hockey games.
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has defended the former Labour government in light of Prof Sir Bruce Keogh's investigation into 14 hospitals in England.
