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Kodak is a well know and respected brand in the photography industry and Kodak EasyShare is the leading online digital photo developing service. Offering secure, ease of use to view, store and share photos and get real Kodak prints of the pictures.

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The aim of holidaylets, which you can also use to search for holiday accommodation is "to make it the biggest, the most user friendly and the most professionally run holiday lettings site on the web".

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All these will appear soon in The Shop section within the relevant section.

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Town lose both matches in the Hartlepool United pre-season tournament and with it brings a tough warning from manager Stan Ternent who demands an improved performance or will look to wield the axe. Ternent has continued his summer signings by bringing in Ipswich Town left winger Gary Roberts on a two year deal. The 24 year old is signed for a fee to be believed in the £250,000 mark. Roberts will wear the number 17 shirt next season.

More signings are promised by the manager who takes former England international defender David Unsworth on trial, with the manager wanting six more players!

Over 11,000 tickets have been sold for next week's pre-season match with Arsenal. For further information click on the banner towards the top of this page.

Meanwhile released Danny Racchi has agreed a deal with League Two side Bury for next season.

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A new day and yet more new partners to welcome to The Shop. In addition to the plethora we have added over the past few days, a further three have now come on board.

A growing online bookmaker, betinternet.com is the first choice for many punters who wish to place a serious bet. They are famed for their sportsbook offerings in particular that of football. They offer up to £30 per new account with a minumn £25 deposit and after you have placed your first bet of a minimum of £25.

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Town got their first win of the pre-season schedule under their belt with an impressive and dominating performance against Ian Bank's non-league side. Again Stan Ternent used all his players and had a second good look at them as Town ran up eight goals.

The Terriers were 5-0 up at half time and a further three in the second period to secure a big win. The travelling Town army will have been happy with the scoreline and the performance which saw Town use the more traditional 4-4-2 formation. Town could also afford a Cadamateri shot which hit the post and late in the match Alex Smithes made a smart save to preserve the clean sheet.

0-1: Clarke (N), 5 mins
0-2: Berrett, 8 mins
0-3: Jevons, 15 mins
0-4: Jevons, 31 mins
0-5: Butler, 45 mins
0-6: Parker, 52 mins
0-7: Williams, 63 mins
0-8: Clarke (N), 72 mins

A concern from the evening will be the early injury to James Berrett.

Town side:
Matthew Glennon (45, Alex Smithes), Andy Holdsworth (45, Danny Codmand), Shane Killock, Michael Collins (45, Danny Broadbent), Andy Butler (45, David Mirfin), Nathan Clarke, Joe Skarz (45, Robbie Williams), James Berrett (15, Tom Clarke), Danny Cadamateri (45, Keigan Parker), Phil Jevons (45, Luke Beckett), Malvin Kamara.

A new day and yet more new partners to welcome to The Shop. In addition to the plethora we have added over the past few days, a further two have now come on board.

Adventure Company is a unique proposition in the holiday industry by offering specialists trips and experiences far from the norm for more conventional holiday companies. Taking you off the beaten track they combine experience with value for money to exceed client expectation. They offer choice for any age and any group type, offering the perfect blend of adventure and comfort. To help make your choice they grade all their holidays in terms of difficulty.

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Former Academy product Lucas Adkins has ended speculation about his future by signing a two-year with Hamilton who Town play in Hartlepool's Wilton Cup on Saturday (12:00 noon kick off). Akins has impressed the Academical's management team during a trial and the 19 year old has put to pen on a deal offered to him by manager Billy Reid.

Akins was released by Town at the end of last season having spent some time out on loan and during that time there as been repeated rumours regarding his future. This is a terrific news for the young former academy product, and we wish him well.

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The repeated comments in some parts of the media about Town's interest in Ipswich Town pair Alan Lee and Gary Roberts in a £700,000 double swoop have resulted in a "no comment" from Town manager Stan Ternent. Ternent who has hinted at bringing in more players (some reports claim as many as four could still come in from now until the start of the season) would not be moved to comment on the potential signing of the two Tractor Boys.

Striker Lee is a Republic of Ireland international and could see his options at Portman Road limited due to summer signings down there. Roberts is a decent winger with good qualities and is been tracked by a number of other clubs. He is on the transfer list at Ipswich.

Throughout his career Lee who is known to Ternent during their Burnley days has scored goals and commanded a combined fee of £1.2 million and featured 37 times in the Championship last season scoring 11 goals. Ipswich paid £850,000 to take him from Cardiff in January 2001. He scored on the opening and last afternoon of last season and is certainly one the Tractor Boys supporters do not want to lose.

Roberts who appears surplus to requirements featured 10 times for the Tractor Boys with a goal (more worrying perhaps is the 5 yellow cards!) and spent some time on-loan at Crewe. At 24 the former Liverpool trainee could have plenty to offer. His only goal last season was on the opening day of the season, when Ipswich beat Sheffield 4-1 at home. Ironically two of the other three were scored by a certain Alan Lee!

We'll bring you more news on this and any other signings as we hear about them.

Town will not risk anyone with a slight knock or strain for tonight's short trip to non-league side AFC Emley.

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Continuing our busy time of introducing new partners to the site there seems no letting up as we introduce today, four new partners. Vodafone retail, Vodafone Business, Haven Holidays and Insure and Go are today all welcomed to The Shop.

As the official England cricket team Vodafone is a well established brand within English sport and beyond. The world's largest mobile phone network brings you some amazing deals that are available only online. Vodafone is chose for it's brand, customer service and great deals that are value for money.

We are pleased to welcome them to our Mobile Phones and Telecommunications programme.

With over 99% of the UK covered by the impressive Vodafone network, make sure you choose Vodafone for your business mobile phone requirements.

For their current offers for the ultimate family holiday experience in one of their 35 parks click on the link below. Short breaks - Haven have those too. Offers regularly change throughout the year so keep popping back to Haven to see their latest deals. We are pleased to welcome them to our Holidays Programme.

There are potentially so many things, so don't get stung and travel without insurance. Through Insure and Go they specialise in providing cheap insurance without compromising on the quality. In association with AIG Europe (UK) insurance provided by the UK's largest travel insurance provider offers total peace of mind - so you can enjoy your holiday without the worry!

Single trip, annual cover, winter sports, water sports? Groups, worldwide, Europe or backpacking? With Insure and Go they have it covered.

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Former Huddersfield left-back Anthony Lloyd has joined non-league Guiseley moving from York City. 24 year old Lloyd left Town to join Torquay United in January 2006 having been on loan at the Devon side.

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We are pleased to reveal that we have successfully negotiated a renewal with our hosting company to host thisisthebarmyarmy.co.uk for a further two years at least. We have also purchased the URL for the same time period. We are confident that this deal will offer visitors an improved experience of the site.

Taking a holistic view of the all round renewal package we have achieved a cost-effective solution whilst combining web space and bandwidth capacity to meet the ever increasing needs of the site.

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Should you have any comments contact the webmaster at webmaster@thisisthebarmyarmy.co.uk.

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Premiership giants Aston Villa has shown that compassion does exist in football by announcing that their new Nike produced kit will be sponsored for the 2008/2009 season by local Birmingham and West Midlands children's charity Acorns.

Acorns which was established in 1983 cares for children with life-limited illness and their logo will be across the Villa kits next season for free. Aston Villa have foregone any potential revenue from shirt sponsorship by producing this free affinity sponsorship deal which the club believes is far greater than any commercial sponsorship.

Villa has had an association with the children's charity since 2006 and offered this groundbreaking and wonderful offer to the charity due to the need to create extra awareness and funding.

This is an extremely honourable thing for Aston Villa to do and the first of any top-flight English side to offer such a wonderful platform for a charity to promote from. It follows in the footsteps of Spanish top-flight side FC Barcelona who gave their famous shirts sponsorship to UNICEF.

The Premiership club said on their website "We regard this partnership as more important and more valuable than any commercial opportunity presented us with". This is an excellent example of how terrific football clubs can be, lets hope that what the club calls and "experiment" comes off and the charity gains an influx of new donors to help support the vast expansion it is looking to produce.

Aston Villa recognises that it is a football club first and foremost but also understand it's traditional links and bonds to the area and the city of Birmingham in which it operates and much of it's fanbase covers - the same demographic area covered by Acorns. Although for commercial reasons Villa continue to look for lucrative commercial deals this season at least will have name Acrons across the famous claret and sky blue shirt, which is an impressive looking traditional shirt for next season.

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Robert Page who left Huddersfield Town at the end of last season having failed to agree a new deal as been named captain of his new club Chesterfield. Page conducted a similar role for the Terriers towards the end of last season following the separation with ex-boss Andy Ritchie.

The 33 year old former Welsh centre half was due to sign a new contract with Town until negotiations between him and the new management team of Stan Ternent and Ronnie Jepson fell down. He will wear the number 5 shirt at Saltergate next season as the Spireites battle to get out of the bottom tier of English football.

There will be concourse facilities available and supporters will also be able to see behind the scenes of the stadium. Ensure you enjoy this excellent supporter awareness day by visiting the stadium this Friday.

Friday will offer many supporters the first time to see the players 'for real' in their new training attire, the new management team in action, the new pitch and video wall and to sample some of the new and improved catering the club is it's supplier is promising for next season.

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The fourth summer signing of the summer Chris Lucketti has been given the honour and privilege of wearing the captain's armband for the 2008/2009 replacing former skipper Jon Worthington. Lucketti who was captain of Town during his first spell also captained Bury when Stan Ternent was his manager.

It is as expected and great news for the 36 year old who will be aiming to help keep a tight defence as Town gain promotion to the Championship next season.

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Released Town midfielder has been signed by non-league outfit Harrogate Town.

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Despite producing four new signings for the Town faithful to enjoy next season Stan Ternent is promising more with a player to wear the number 10 shirt high on his agenda. Ternent who is well experienced at this level of football is making his intentions clear with his transfer dealings already, producing a tough mean backbone of the team next season.

Ternent is basing success on having a quality squad and will use pre-season to try out a range of formations to ensure the squad is comfortable to whatever the new management team expects of them. He has got balance, pace and defensive strength from those signed and all four have tasted success at this level not so long ago.

We will have more news later in the day tomorrow.

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Today marked the day new manager Stan Ternent announced next season's squad numbers and with it came no surprises as most of the squad that was in place last season retained the same numbers. Two did not however with Robbie Williams losing the number 10 shirt he is now 16 and Luke Beckett loses his number 18 shirt and is now number 19.

Perhaps the rumours that both Beckett and Williams could soon be on their way could be intensified with the number selection for next season.

New boy Kiegan Parker takes as we predicted back in May when he signed departed Chris Brandon's number 7 shirt. Fellow new boy Jim Goodwin takes the number 11 vacated by Danny Schofield. The latest new signing Andy Butler is given the number 18 shirt, the same number he wore at previous club Scunthorpe United.

There is again no number one shirt, and no number 13 shirt traditional given to the goalkeeper's, although last season the 13 shirt was worn by the now departed defender Frank Sinclair. There is no number 10 shirt, proving that Ternent is still on the hunt for a new striker and living legend Andy Booth retains his number 23 shirt.

First year professional Daniel Codman is given the 33 shirt with Danny Cadamateri retaining the legendary Town number 9 jersey.

The squad begins pre-season tomorrow. The new management team is promising the players a tough but enjoyable pre-season process as he looks to build a side capable of promotion next season. Ternent's coaching team will conduct three session's a day as he looks to ensure his players are ready to hit the ground running come August 9th.

The transfer activity at the club is far from over with the manager confirming to the official website that he is still on the hunt for new talent to join the reborn Town.

But the squad numbers are far from a revolution more a continuation on previous season's numbering system.

For the pre-season match schedule click on the link below:

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Reported Town midfield target Mark Kerr has ended the rumours of where his future will lie by choosing to remain in the Scottish Premier League. Kerr has left Dundee United and set to join SPL rivals Aberdeen after he agreed terms with them, despite a host of clubs south of the border tracking him, including reported interest from the Terriers.

26 year old Kerr will sign a two year deal on Monday when he arrives in North East Scotland following his for a medical.

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There are a couple of decent YouTube videos available charting Town's 100 years:

Well worth a click and a view. We particularly like the second one with it's inspiring 'Adam's Theme' (Trevor Raban) soundtrack.

We are pleased to welcome 'Scratch2Cash' to our online betting and gaming partners. In the genre of online scratch games Scratch2Cash is the market leader with over 20 different games to choose featuring up to £200,000 jackpots. The games are all web based so no special downloaded applications are required, as they offer 24*7 customer service focusing on simple fun and ease of operation.

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The Terriers plum pre-season fixture with Premiership Arsenal in August is to be screen live on pay TV sports channel Setanta. The match which is an evening kick off on August 6th is part of a range of pre-season friendly matches to be screen by the company with a number of the Gunners matches been screened.

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Following on from the success last month thisisthebarmyarmy.co.uk as again seen traffic records broken. The site as enjoyed more visitors (new and repeat) and with that a huge number of hits on the site. It as again been a busy month, and although usage statistics are the highest ever, bandwidth transfer is slightly lower than last months highest ever total.

Many thanks to all you who have visited to comment on the website please use the Contact Us link in page heading navigation bar to send us all your feedback.

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