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Police let paedophiles rape in Rochdale and Rotherham: Charlene Downes is still missing
STILL no sign of Paige Chivers and Charlene Downes, the missing teenagers. But the better news is that Rochdale police, social workers, children’s homes and all other bastions of authority that failed to protect the children from gangs of paedophiles may have to pay the victims compensation. Some of the girls were as young as 10 years old. The nine men convicted of raping scores of children in Rochdale are aged between 22 and 69.
Some of the victims complained to the police. And the police ignored them. The police said the girls were wilfully “engaging in consensual sexual activity”.
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Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (9)
Liverpool school wants mums and nannies to stop smoking weed before 9am
PARENTS, au pairs, nannies and Filipino maids are requested to stop smoking cannabis outside Huyton’s Longview Primary school, Merseyside.
The Liverpool Pot spots “one brazen person” buying drugs from a car outside the Astley Road school and “another school run mum was spotted apparently smoking cannabis at 9am”.
9am. Standards,mums.
Headteacher Amanda Casey, writs to parents:
“On one occasion a parent was seen apparently buying drugs from a car at around 1.15pm and at another time a mother appeared to be smoking cannabis at 9am. The fact that both of these events took place very close to our school, when there are children around, causes me a great deal of concern.”
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Photos: ‘AKA Peace’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London
AK-47 assault rifle “Spin AK47 for Peace One Day” by British artist Damien Hirst on display in an exhibition ‘AKA Peace’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The exhibition in collaboration with non-profit organization Peace One Day showcases artists reinterpretation of AK-47 assault rifles, reacting against the horror of violence globally, recasting a weapon of devastation as a conduit to peace. The art installations are to be auctioned after the exhibition on Oct. 4 to raise funds for Peace One Day.
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Before health and safety: The Candy Knife slices like a razor
WOWZA! Life before health and safety: A cheap cut-yer-legs-off razor-style blade and candy bars! What could go wrong?
Whale washes up on Druridge Bay, Northumberland
FACE of the day: A 26ft (8m) minke whale washed up after gale force winds and high seas at Druridge Bay, Northumberland. There are plans to save it…
Megan Stammers is seduced by fame
MEGAN Stammers is a white 15-year-old on the lam in France with Jeremy Forrest, her maths teacher at Bishop Bell School, near Eastbourne. The police and her parents want Megan to come home. But how to make it happen? One way is to assure her that Forrest will not be busted for a crime when he returns.
The Evening Standard notes:
The age of consent in France is 15, so their relationship is not against the law.
Jean-Philippe Joubert, state prosecutor for Boulogne-sur-Mer, tells us:
“These people have been put on a missing persons’ list and a European Arrest Warrant has been issued. But there are no dedicated detectives or specific searches going on right now. But if the couple are recognised and identified, then they will be arrested.”
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Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Bolton police launch Operation Lagerfeld to cut down on youth crime and bad fashion
POLICE in Bolton have launched Operation Lagerfeld.
Sgt Dave Tann, from Bolton Central Neighbourhood Policing Team, explains what Operation Largerfeld is:
“We are showing zero tolerance because these girls should not be drinking in the streets in the early hours of the morning. They are vulnerable and could become the victim of a serious crime. The message to parents is — do you really know where your children are and what they are doing?”
Shopping for fashion on the internet?
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Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Southampton Church bans Hindu yoga classes
THERE will be no yoga at St Edmund’s Church, Southampton. Father John Chandler says “yoga is a Hindu spiritual exercise”. It is banned. The place must be used only for Catholic methods of relaxation, such as trad jazz, worrying about sex and thrash metal.
Yoga Instructor Cori Withell (not a Hindu; pictured left) said he paid £180 to rent the space for her classes. She says:
“I had never heard about any religious issue with yoga before but I have looked into it since and found that some other religions feel that when people meditate it could let the devil inside them. But there was never any meditation in my class – it was just exercises. Yoga is not religious: spiritual, but not religious.”
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The wet autumn weather in photos
THE water has hit the UK. We’ve been taking photos in York and Morpeth:
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Lake Annecy Murders: Sylvain Mollier’s ‘double-life’ and Saad al-Hilli’s French home
WHAT news of the Lake Annecy murders, the deaths of four people in a pretty part of Alpine France? Well, not much. The press are leading with the bigger news that Government Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell might have called a policeman a pleb as he tried to ride his bicycle through the Downing Street gates. He never was shot dead. A cyclist named Sylvain Mollier was.
A few days ago, Lt Colonel Benedict Vinnemann, posited the idea that M. Mollier might not have happened upon the scene of carnage while on a bike ride – Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 47, and his mother-in-law Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, were all murdered. He might have been a target. But, then, so might have been Suhaila al-Allaf or Iqbal al-Hilli. Have you seen photographs in the press of either of them? What about one of M. Mollier? No. All we have is an old snapshot of Mr al-Hilli.
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Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
These vintage gay adverts were our little secret
BEING gay was not always as difficult as it is now. It used to be impossible. It was only in 1973 that the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders. In 1993, the USA continued to ban homosexual behaviour in the armed forced but instigated a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that allowed gays openly to serve their country. In 1994, the age of consent for gay sex was 21 in the UK. It is now 16, in line with the law on hetero sex. Before that, gays either ran the gauntlet of State control or lived a lie. In 1998, the Sun ran a story about the country being run by a “gay mafia“. Be gay, said the tabloid, be a “poof”, but do not be successful and too visible. But advertisers knew there was a market out there. It just had to be tapped into:
Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment (1)
From 1976 two Swine Flu films to scare the life out of you
WINTER is coming. And that means swine flu. Be afraid. In 1976, you were very afaird. And Dotty – poor, poor Dotty. Well, she died:
Posted: 26th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, TV & Radio | Comment
Playboy – 11 great cartoons from yesteryear
PLAYBOY magazine isn’t just about the articles. It’s about the cartoons, too:
Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment
Lima’s female prison inmates put on a show (photos)
IN Peru, inmates at a women’s prison in Peru put on a show to mark the start of spring. The event is part of a program that aims to help prisoners reduce stress and build self confidence. Most foreigners in Peru’s prisons were caught trying to smuggle drugs out of the cocaine-producing nation.
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The beast of Burscough is captured on film (photo)
THE beast of Burscough is on the loose!
The Lancashire Telegraph reports:
Big cat hunters are on full alert after a man snapped a suspicious looking beast on a Lancashire railway line.
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Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Russian antiwar film from 1983 – never trust a match
RUSSIA. 1983. This is how wars start. Never trust a match:
Richard Littlejohn says only white natives of Albion can afford an iPhone5
THE Daily Mail’s in-house game of tag-team troll baiter selects Richard Littlejohn as today’s tosser:
Below the headline “Has Apple opened a Sangatte?” and a photo (see left) of people queuing up in London’s Covent Garden for the new iPhone 5, Litteljohs notes:
If you want a graphic illustration of how unfettered immigration has changed the demographic make-up of Britain, look no further than the picture in Saturday’s Mail of the crowd waiting for the Apple store in London to open.
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Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
1962: Dr. Michael Ash hands out Strontium-87 lollipops
SNAPSHOT: Dr. Michael Ash, 44-year-old British medical specialist, on the beach at Bexhill, England on Sept. 7, 1962, supplies his family with Strontium-87 lollipops which he says can combat radioactive fallout. Immunisation he says is accomplished with the sugar sweetened and flavoured strontium lollipops made of seaweed and strontium rock found near Chipping Sodbury where BritainÂ’s leukaemia rate is lowest. Ash, with him from left to right: David, 14, who helps make the lollipops; Jennifer, 16; Mrs. Ash with Richard, 1; Timothy, 15; Simon, 12; Stephen, 11; Mary, 9 and Peter 7.
Two New York suits fight over a tax (video)
To New York, to see two suited and booted New Yorkers fighting over a taxi. The chunkier chap wins. The fat will inherit the Earth (and not walk):
Why didn’t Jeremy Forrest wait until Megan Stammers was 16? Well…
MEGAN Stammers is the 15-year-old schoolgirl who has legged it to France with Jeremy Forrest, the 30-year-old who teaches her maths at Bishop Bell School in Eastbourne.
Forrest married Emily Faulder, 31, in Brighton last year.
East Sussex County Council says they were investigating the relationship when the teacher and his pupil went missing. Stammers and Forrest were, reportedly, seen holding hands on the way back from a school trip to Los Angeles in February.
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Posted: 25th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
Iranian woman beat up cleric who ordered her to tighten her veil
TO Iran’s Semnan province, where Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti has potted a woman. He is on his way to the mosque. He stops the woman and tells her to cover herself. She replies: “You, cover your eyes.”
He warns her to cover up as he would like her to. Her headscarf is too loose for his liking. Some of her hair is showing.
He says reprimanding the woman is his “commanding right and forbidding wrong”.
Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
CNN hacked Christopher Stevens
THIS is unreal. Christopher Stevens lay dead in Libya. The US Ambassador and three other Americans have been murdered. So, CNN goes looting. It looks over the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. It finds Mr Stevens’ diary. The US State Department’s Philippe Reines taks a view:
Whose first instinct is to remove from a crime scene the diary of a man killed along with three other Americans serving our country, read it, transcribe it, email it around your newsroom for others to read and then call the family?
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Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Josphine Baker rocks the yellow banana two-piece: 1936 in photos
JOSEPHINE Baker works the yellow banana skirt at the Ziegfeld Follies performance on 11/02/1936:
Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Celebrities, Flashback | Comment
Flapper Fanny was the girl who always knew what to say
FLAPPER Fanny was a comic strip that began life in the 1920s. Flapper Fanny was smart, sassy and cute. She was created by Ethel Hays, her work augmented and adapted by Russell Patterson, Glady’s
Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos. Sylvia Sneidman altered into Flapper Fanny Says. It speaks of its time:
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Can the police use Andrew Mitchell to make themselves look better?
WILL Andrew Mitchell go down in history as the man who created gate-gate, the ultimate post-Watergate gate story? Mitchell, the Government Chief Whip, denies calling police guarding Downing Street a “pleb” or “moron”. He does, however, regret not showing police “the amount of respect I should have done”.
Mitchell wanted to take his bicycle through the main Downing Street Gates. Police said he couldn’t. The Sun says he told a constable:
“Best you learn your fucking place. You don’t run this fucking government. You’re fucking plebs.”
Mitchell now says:
“I have apologised to the police, I have apologised to the police officer involved on the gate and he’s accepted my apology and I hope very much that we can draw a line under it there.”
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Posted: 24th, September 2012 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
