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Dan Dan's Fleck exclusive
 In his first interview of 2010, reclusive former Springbok midfield genius Robbie Fleck speaks exclusively to Dan Nicholl about the Stormers season, the second coming of the Castle Cape Town Tens, and why he’s spending his spare time designing clothes... Dan: Fleckie, thanks for sparing some time. Husband, father, Stormers backline coach, CEO of the Cape Town Tens, and rumour has it, a fashion designer as well? Fleckie: Not really, Dan, although I do have a passion for clothes. My wife Frankie has a new fashion label out, Frankie Fleck Design, and I’ve been helping her get off the ground. It’s strange — we’ll come home from a day...
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Farewell to the ferry
Some of the younger men are clearly hungover, the very definition of peely-wally, and clutch their Irn-Bru like life preservers. The grooved benches of the Renfrew Rose are excellent for keeping bottles from rolling off and smashing on the steel floor.There are, at most, nine men on board, though the boat can hold 50. At one time, this ferry and the others which used to cross the Clyde would have been packed with workers going to the yards which lined both banks. However, the decline of shipbuilding, together with the construction of the Clyde Tunnel and Erskine Bridge, has meant that passenger numbers have been decreasing for years.There were 140,000 journeys in 2009...
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