In Sherburne's Winter Kitchen, Youthful Nantucketers Hear Talesofthe
Sea
Elizabeth Hollister Frost, the novelist, who is telling the stories, owns the old home built in 1722. The chimney is 17feet
long
at
itsbase.
Bricks,
laid
with
island
clay
and moistened sea shells, are intact. The partition has been removed between the kitchen and the adjoining "borning room,"
the
household
maternity
ward
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However, the Met does not specify that the new qualification is temporary on its website.

In fact, the Careers page makes it clear that anyone who does not speak one of the specified languages is "unable to submit an application".

The only reference to a 'one-month trial' was made in a quietly-issued press release at 1am today.

Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has also come under fire for the 14 languages chosen for his list - when by his own admission almost 300 are spoken in London.

Critics questioned why key languages including Gujurati, Mandarin and Romanian aren't on there - but German is.

Andrew Boff, leader of the Conservatives in the London Assembly, described the list as "bizarre".

He told