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Let's hear it for the Info Commissioner who has come out of his Data Protection cubby hole and said basically the act doesnt apply here (over riding public interest ) and I dont say lets hear it...
This quango by any other name deliberately covered up its own incompitence with regards to Baby deaths at the Furness Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria. Read behind all the eloquent language and what you...
I didn't even realise that they were still being sent http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-22953657 this from the article - //Punctuation - always spelt out in full before 1937 - was not...
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The families of soldiers killed in Iraq can sue the government for damages under the Human Rights Act, the Supreme Court has ruled. Surely if you sign up for the army the fact you may die is one of...
A good thing - or not?
Tonight's Sky News reports that the Girl Guides have decided to change their oath. Gone is any reference to God, being true to myself and my beliefs being substituted, and to my country, my community...
On the news they are showing how Northern Ireland is uniting by having mixed primary schools with Catholics and Protestants. They showed such a school enjoying a visit from Obama . Why is it that the...
Just breaking on BBC website! But apparently it's a Yank one from WW2....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10127266/Qatada-to-be-deported-by-the-end-of-the-month.html hopefully this time hes gone for good...
Why is the Army running an extensive recruitment campaign at the same time as making a load of redundencies? http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/may/army-boots The campaign aims to dispel the...
I am reading today's Guardian and there is a rather unsettling report on page 2 about the sentence that Hall has been given. Its been discussed on here recently whether the sentence was long enough...
// Pensioners in their 60s and 70s have seen their incomes rise steadily during the recession years - and now they are less likely to be poor than any other group in society, according to a new...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/408367/Anger-as-Britain-gives-more-foreign-aid-than-any-other-G8-country Why is it that UK citizens have to endure cut backs after cut backs, while our government...
Any ABer in Belfast to see Barack Obama and his family? I watched the speech and was quite 'embarrassed' by some of the young public yawning, even leaving; heavens can't young adults sit for 30...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/g8-summit-begins-vladimir-putin-accuses-david-cameron-of-betraying-humanitarian-values-by-supporting-syrian-rebels-8661048.html Which would it be right to...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2343029/Smiling-Prince-Philip-leaves-hospital-royal-wave-11-days-admitted-abdominal-surgery.html...
Views please? No doubt controversial... My view - "You tell us where Keith Bennett's body is, and when found, we'll let you die in prison."...
http://news.sky.com/story/1104682/stuart-hall-jailed-for-sex-attacks-on-girls I had thought he might get slightly longer, but his age and the nature of the offences have played a part in the judges...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-22933317 Iain Brady is petitioning to be moved to a jail in Scotland, where he could end his life because he wouldn't be force fed, and he could take...
There was an interesting interview with David Icke in yesterdays Sunday Times Magazine. I am not able to provide a link here but I expect many people will have read it. Here is a link to his own...

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