Three cheers for the Black Horse Pub: … when hundreds of people enjoyed a fun day after a 5km walk to raise money for the Chartwell Cancer Trust. Among the revellers helping to pay for staff who work at the Chartwell Unit at Princess Royal University Hospital, Locksbottom, was 90210 television star Shenae Grimes. Three boos for the Black Horse Pub: Drinkers were casually enjoying a Friday night drink when…
…it’s creating dependency: Imagine a world where a parent will go without food so their children can eat. It may sound like something from a Victorian novel, but this is the reality in 2013 – and the reality in North East Lincolnshire. Yes, this is yet another in the rapidly-becoming-tedious series of woe and disaster articles in local newspapers over changes to the benefits system. Record numbers of people are…
The local authority said the judge ordered Mr Catt to pay the council’s costs in relation to one of these. The amount of these costs has not yet been agreed. But Mr Catt said: “I am protected from costs by legal aid. That’s what they do not like.” Yeah, well partly that’s because spending public money is seen as their job, I suppose. Me, I’m not too happy about it because I’d…
RSPCA Inspector Steven Craddock said: “We believe they were dumped around teatime on April 22. “If anyone saw a vehicle or horse box in that lane around that time and took a note of the registration number we would like to speak to them. “ Why worry about the car registration? Aren’t horses supposed to be registered? Check the tattoo or microchip! Oh. Wait. Bit odd, then, that the RSPCA…
Residents have accused the city council of “insensitivity” – by allowing dogs or cats to be kept in their supported block of flats. Errr…. Usually, it’s seen as ‘insensitive’ not to allow them to keep a pet, isn’t it? Gilton House, in Brislington, contains 46 flats for people over the age of 60 and provides tenants, some of whom have mobility problems or disabilities, with extra support. Until recently, no…
Archie Bland, deputy editor of the ‘Indy’ on the Paris Brown affair: … no one had thought to check on the hapless girl’s Twitter account, but the Mail on Sunday did, had a look through it, and alighted upon a “torrent of foul-mouthed rants” from which it constructed a front page. And now Paris Brown has had to resign. Some of the tweets are awful. Then again, this is the…
A man who has had five dogs stolen in just over a year has called for council dog warden procedures to be overhauled. Steve Jones from Compton, Berkshire, said he was charged hundreds of pounds after some of his dogs were found. He said: “I don’t know who the bigger crooks are, the council or the thieves.” Usually, I’d say the council. But…not in this case. You see, there’s such…
Which is why, I suppose, Ramsdens have to spend more money to achieve the justice the system can’t – or, more likely, won’t – give them: A Grimsby superstore is seeking legal action against a former employee who stole more than £55,000.Civil action is due to take place to recoup money taken from Ramsdens by James Jennings. And why do they need to do this? Well, almost all the ill-gotten gains went…
…not if the usual public sector method of dealing with such things is followed: Kingston Council’s former director of children’s services, who resigned days before a damning child protection report was made public, was given a year’s salary as a payoff, the Surrey Comet has learned.Duncan Clark was paid £128,000 after his resignation in July, despite Kingston Council leader Councillor Derek Osbourne’s claim the “final responsibility” for the failures lay with Mr…
School uniform regulations are always good for a post or two, and often get a good old ding-dong going in the comments between the ‘cherish your individuality!’ crown and the ‘we need standards!’ crowd. Personally, I favour the latter. But then along comes a story that….well… A schoolgirl who had her hair coloured pink as part of a lesson was later excluded from classes for breaking school rules when the…
…at least, for the progressives: In these posts, teenage girls – and sometimes boys – criticize certain body types or wardrobe choices, often being ruthless in the process. Oh noes! Criticism! That means…judgement! That means…not ‘celebrating the choices of others’! Oh, quelle horreur! So, what sort of comments are we talking about? In one such post, a blogger writes with accompanying pictures: ‘Hey girls, uhm did you know – open books,…
More sob-stories from the ‘Guardian’ against the ConDem’s planned benefit cuts: I don’t want my children to be sad about their lifestyle. We live in a society where peer pressure is one of the things that affects them, and I hate seeing them miss out on things because I can’t provide for them. When we walk to school and it’s raining and they ask why everyone else has a car…
The usual whining in the ‘Guardian’ about Muslims being ‘disadvantaged’ in the workplace throws up this rather odd little gem: Others encounter difficulties within the workplace itself, where requests for minor adaptations are met with resistance. Reema, a 34-year-old obstetrician, has to remove her hijab in order to perform surgery. She explains that her London hospital trust has been unwilling to consider small alterations to the scrubs uniform worn in…
A poll for the Post has shown that Bristolians are overwhelmingly against cycling on the city’s pavements. Well, there’s a shocker, eh? Who could have predicted that? Apart from….well, everybody. Dr Rogers, a retired GP and cabinet councillor, said he was not surprised by the results of the survey. I’m not surprised you’re not surprised, doctor… He said: “Most people would not regard a five-year-old riding a cycle on the…
Lynsey Hanley (again) missing the point: When Zadie Smith defends public libraries, you know that it’s not because it is fashionable to do so: it’s because, in her estimation, she owes her life to them. Really? According to popular music, it’s possible for a DJ to save your life, but a library? “When we were children, you’d never imagine that you’d get into a right/left argument about the purpose and…
Latest Comments