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…
At a licensing meeting held yesterday it was revealed how the authority area was now the second worst in Yorkshire and the Humber for such violence, with figures showing: Up to 40 per cent of arrests are associated with alcohol misuse – that is 140 arrests per month linked to alcohol abuse. Ah, those weasel words – ‘linked to’. We all know just how they use that phrase, don’t we? Of…
Phillipa Perry (last seen whining about attitudes to disability) on those alcohol consumption figures and why we should just shut up and tell our betters the truth if we know what’s good for us: If we put to one side mistakes such as not knowing the actual size of a unit of alcohol, it is apparent that our concern to retain a certain self-image is more important to us than our…
After all, don’t they always say what the States have today, we’ll have tomorrow? One Direction star Niall Horan has bought a house in Los Angeles near the Kardashians with a pool and games room, but he’s not allowed a bar because he’s under 21. Not allowed by whom? Well, would you believe, by the builders he’s hired to renovate it? No. It’s not April 1st! Horan splashed out $1.5…
…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…
Police are appealing for witnesses after a car drove slowly past a 10-year-old girl cycling home from school in Crowle. I… What? The girl’s mother was cycling a short distance behind her daughter at the time, but reported the car, which contained two men, because she felt it was suspicious. Presumably, if they’d driven past at speed, she’d have been reassured? I mean, good grief! A license plate would have…
Thousands of ex-offenders are to be targeted in a national drive to add their profiles to the police DNA database in an attempt to solve hundreds of crimes. Yes, you read that right – ‘ex-offenders’. And how can they do this? Simples! Forces are using powers under the Crime and Security Act 2010, which became law last year. The aim is to gather DNA profiles from criminals who were convicted…
A teenage student was subjected to a brutal beating – just for having long hair. Harley Davies, 17, was set on by a gang of youths who shouted an obsenity (sic) at him and told him to go and get his hair cut. The A-level student was left with a fractured jaw and broken tooth during the lunchtime attack on the Blackburn College campus. Appalling, yes. But surely not so…
According to his bio, Matthew Moran is ‘currently a Research Associate at King’s College London and his research looks at a range of social and political issues in France’. According to King’s College itself, he ‘is currently working on a MacArthur-funded postdoctoral project that explores the relationship between nuclear, nationalism and identity and how these issues impact on policy-making.’ So the perfect guy to report on the Amiens troubles, right?…
…so someone needs to remove it from me, to save me from myself. Miss Mantell, of Forestdale, who has dropped from size 24 to 14, says more needs to be done to stop others turning to the “last resort” of bariatric surgery … She said: “I have always had a weight problem since the age of 11. Some would blame my mother because she was always working and maybe it…
Families are unfairly blocking organ donation from dead relatives who wanted to make the gift of life, claims a leading expert in ethics. Why do I always see that phrase, ‘leading expert in ethics’ and know I’m going to see something that makes me wonder if it’s even human? At least one in 10 people who decided in advance to donate their organs is having their wishes thwarted, it has…
West Mercia police has apologised for a poster campaign which an anti-rape charity called “inappropriate.” Good lord! What did it say? Oh. Well, who could object to that? Worcestershire Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre claimed the Safe Night Out campaign blamed victims who had been drinking for sexual assault. Ah. I see. Anyone not blinded by their single-minded desire to blame only men would welcome safety advice, but…
John Kampfner provides it in this superlative CiF post: A tweet is more pub talk than publication. But what about the argument that it provides the oxygen of publicity that the school playground or the bar stool at the local does not? Oh, indeed. We’ve heard that one quite a lot over the last few days. It does, but only if you encourage it. Bingo! Imagine you stumble across some…
Scores of people are to take to the streets of Nottingham this weekend in protest against dangerous dog legislation. Good! Protesting that it’s useless and doesn’t go far enough, I presume? Rescue workers and dog lovers alike are demonstrating against Breed Specific Legislation, which under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 (Section 1) bans certain types of dogs in the UK. Oh. Great. Now, while I might have some sympathy with…
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