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Wednesday, May 24th, 2017 · 96 Comments
Reports That Newcastle After Surprising New Midfield Target

The ChronicleLive are reporting that Newcastle are being linked with Clinton Mata in the Belgium press today – and the 6 times capped Angola International seems an unlikely player for Newcastle to […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 · 80 Comments
Rafa Wants To Completely Transform Newcastle’s Midfield

Rafa wanted two players brought in late during the January transfer window – James McCarthy of Everton and Andros Townsend of Crystal Palace. He got neither. The Newcastle manager was also keen […]

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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 · 54 Comments
Newcastle Battle Monaco For Top French Teenager

French newspaper L’Equipe are reporting that Newcastle are keen on bringing 18 year-old France U19 striker/winger Yann Karamoh to Newcastle: he currently plays for Caen and has become a first team regular […]

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Unfortunately I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in February and started hormone treatment back on 6th March

My doctors have also recommended chemotherapy treatment be done at the same time.

When the cancer metastasizes there's some evidence that both treatments done together may help longer term survival.

The first chemotherapy treatment was on 13th April (unlucky for some) and the plan is to continue that for the next four or five months.

Obviously I will do my very best in the coming months.

Ed Harrison

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Dr. Ed Harrison is a retired IBM Executive.

Ed graduated with a BSc honors degree in Electrical Engineering from King’s College, London University in 1966, and was awarded a PhD in Computer Science from Newcastle University in 1971 – his thesis title was  “Computer Representation Of Graphical Information With Applications”.

His research was a combination of computer graphics and advanced mathematics.

Ed joined IBM in 1970 and…

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