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One of my childhood hero's found Safe and well

Missing former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes has been found near his home in Majorca after going missing for more than eight hours.The 81-year-old, who suffers from Alzheimer's Disease, was found in a storm drain about one kilometre from his home,...

The End of the Sporting road is in sight

Sports fans will no doubt be elated to learn that from 2024 the BBC will lose it's rights to screen the Summer Olympics (winter goes in 2022) Eurosport have paid a billion for the right which equates to 20% of the Beebs annual budget. In what represe...

What's your answer to this?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/calais-migrants-face-catastrophe-153936990.html#3RP7sMo The situation can't go on? Not only can the stowaway situation there not continue, the constant flow of people trying to get to Europe and/or Britain cannot continue ei...

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20.10 on a Sunday Evening

And still the phone rings this time about window replacement. I keep reading about how the country has progressed and how change is essential, When Bombay Billy phones in 20 mins time pleading with me to tell him all my personal details and it will o...

New Guidelines for NHS staff

Doctors, nurses and midwives will be required to make verbal apologies to their patients after medical mistakes, according to new guidelines published today.Medical professionals must apologise and explain their mistakes as soon as they are aware tha...

China's annual DOG meat festival....

...where tens of thousands of dogs are killed. Thousands of dogs are being shipped in an slaughtered by dog traders at the notorious Yulin meat festival Guangi Autonomous Region to mark China's summer solstice. Harrowing pictures have emerged of fami...

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Anyone for Tea?

Some years ago when alternative teas and infusions first surfaced I tried a number of them, some I liked others I could find no attraction with. So I stuck to my Twinings breakfast tea, Then the Coffee franchises came along and whilst I enjoy a decen...

Aurora Borealis / Northern Lights

Anyone seen them or want to see them? There's a reasonable chance of seeing them in UK tonight (Mon 22nd) weather permitting: http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-forecast/ As a very rough KP guide for location: KP5 - Can be seen from North ScotlandKP...

Meanwhile on the other side of the World

The following article was written by Nick Carter for the Sydney Herald, It is an interesting take on free speech which seems familiar. How dare our Prime Minister slander the abstemious Irish, a sober, temperate and respectable people healthy of mind...

Panic stations ..... Panic stations ..... lol

I've got a few panic stations going round inside my head just now and you guys are getting the full brunt of the gist of the issue.It starts like this.I just got the following e-mail from the company that organises the National lottery.Read it and th...

Will you be Celebrating IYD?

Yes today is International Yoga Day a chance for us to celebrate this Hindu art which has been around for more than 2500 years. Is it relevent in todays world? I think so as I do some of it's derivatives particularly mindfulness which is proving it's...

Here's an interesting question?

Stick with the story........ Let us suppose that 70 years ago a man was accidentally shot dead while out shooting Grey squirrels in a large wood with a group of other people. An inquest decided it was an accident and that one of the group was the unf...

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Hey Petal.....

Have you seen the proposed lottery changes? Odds drastically reduced! http://news.sky.com/story/1503243/big-changes-shrink-chance-of-lottery-win

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Long been said the World's gone mad..

The World's gone mad but it's the people in it that're madder? http://news.sky.com/story/1496850/woman-who-claims-she-owns-the-sun-sues-ebay It's not only crazy to claim ownership of the Sun but people must be crazy to "buy" a plot on it? To put the ...

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Comet probe Philae wakes up & says Hello Rosetta

So how can the news that an inanimate object is still functional, give so many of Us such a rush Certainly felt like we had heard that a lost person/animal long thought dead, had reappeared Great News At 10:28 p.m. on Saturday night, the European Spa...

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EU Finance

http://youtu.be/vnuAh3esdpEThis short clip explains the EU finances very clearly.

Iraq woman dubbed the Twitter terrorist...

... who posted 45,000 messages encouraging violent jihad and was one of al-Qaeda's favourite tweeters is jailed for three-and-half years. Alaa Esayed posted poems urging mothers to send children to fight jihad. The. 22-year-old posted 58 daily tweets...

D Day Veterans Portraits.

Has anyone else seen the portraits of 12 D Day veterans, commissioned by Prince Charles? You can go to culture24.org.uk to see them. They are fabulous....every one of them. Brings a tear to the eye.

I Agree to this..

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/imf-data-shows-icelands-economy-recovered-after-it-imprisoned-bankers-and-let-banks-go-bust-instead-of-bailing-them-out-31292885.html

Alton Towers?

Ever been there and ridden any rides? Been to any other "theme parks" where they have similar rides? What strikes me (no, no, not literally) is that compared to cars on the roads, roller coaster rides don't seem to be constructed in such a way as to ...

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Global Corruption.

David Cameron is urging a global crackdown on corruption in the wake of the FIFA scandal. Would it not be a good idea for that to begin with the EU, whose books have not been satisfactorily audited for 18 years. Do we really want to remain in an orga...