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Mount Etna erruption.... Spectacular?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/pi cture_gallery/0,,15410-1241175,00.html Can anyone fail to be amazed at the Earth in action? Pumping thousands of tons of CO2 out in one go, does anyone...

AB Asks

You Tube helps catch crooks

An Austrian storekeeper has the caught shoplifters who held up his store by putting the CCTV footage on You Tube. The footage showed two men stealing a ?1,000 laptop but people who watched the footage...

AB Asks

'Emotional intelligence' lessons to be taught to teenagers

From the autumn secondary schools will teach school pupils skills such as resolving conflicts, managing anger and respecting others. The Department for Education and Skills have seen that these types...

Miss Inquiry

12 Year old shot in the head dies

Am I going mad, yesterday I woke up to the news saying a 12 year old was shot at point blank range in the head in her lounge and was in hospital, her brother had been arrested. Her mother was not in...

Hugh Spencer

Are we being taken over?

Scary news this morning. I have just been into the website- www.eutruth.org.uk and what I discovered is very worrying, to me anyway. An organisation called Common Purpose is gradually penetrating our...

AB Asks

Parents giving alcohol to children under 15 should be illegal

A charity wants a law to prevent parents giving children under 15 alcohol. A study has shown a large increase in the amount of alcohol drank by 11 to 13 year-olds. The charity, Alcohol Concern, would...

Gromit

Second Earth found - What do you think it is like there?

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6589157.st m What do you...

Gromit

Motion to strip Mugabe of degree

"A campaign has been launched at Westminster to remove an honorary degree presented to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe by Edinburgh University." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_...

kwicky

Should there be a limit on population growth?

UK population has grown a fifth since 1950. The trend is accelerating and expected to reach 70 million during a child's lifetime although this figure will probably be greatly exceeded. The area of...

Gromit

Israel to ask US for new cutting-edge jets

After the announcement of the $10billion arms deal for the US to sell weapons to Saudia Arabia, Israel is now asking to purchase the F-22 - a US-developed fifth generation stealth fighter jet. "US...

Gromit

Iran hostage forecasts new career as weather presenter

An AB question a few weeks ago asked.. Why were the Iranian prisoners freed on television wearing civilian clothes. I flippantly answered "Maybe so they can continue their Television Careers when they...

Gromit

400, 000 dead!

400, 000 every year. The cause is not Terrorism, Wars in the Middle East, AIDS or giant Tsunami. The culprit is ... the car. Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death in people ages 10 to 24...

Oneeyedvic

So what do you do for your country?

There are a lot of people on the site who complain about pretty much everyone and everything. People love to blame everyone else for the country's woes - everything from Religion, Immigration, Single...

flip-flop

Ethnic Police Officers

In a bid to reach the government target of 7%, ACPO have suggested "affirmative action" by fast-tracking black and asian recruits. Four questions; 1 - is this simply another phrase for 'positive...

sp1814

Simon Cowell's Apology

Don't know whether this should go in 'News' or 'Television' so I'm posting in both threads. I saw the end of a news story on GMTV this morning where it was reported that Simon Cowell had to apologise...

Gromit

Can we have our money back?

Patients have not seen any improvement in the care they get under the new consultant contract, a watchdog says. The National Audit Office said despite pay rising by 27% to ?110,000, doctors were not...

Gromit

Bootiful �1/2 M for Bernard Matthews.!

Bernard Matthews is to be compensated by over half a million quid after the bird flu outbreak on it's Suffolk factory farm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6571157.stm The most likely explanation is...

Gromit

Arms deal to secure Saudi Arabia.

The sale of $10 billion of arms to those friendly muslim folks in the middle east looks now set to be approved after Israeli objections had held up the deal....

fender62

liam byrne immigration statement

reading liam byrne's statement immigration is hurting the poorest communities, is it not the horse has bolted already, couldnt they have forcast this before hand housing schooling health etc etc. or...

Gromit

US troops on murder sprees in Afghanistan and Iraq

An investigation by the US military will shortly conclude that 40 Afghan civilians were murdered by US troops. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a rticle/2007/04/15/AR2007041500466.html...

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Mount Etna erruption.... Spectacular?

You Tube helps catch crooks

'Emotional intelligence' lessons to be taught to teenagers

12 Year old shot in the head dies

Are we being taken over?

Parents giving alcohol to children under 15 should be illegal

Second Earth found - What do you think it is like there?

Motion to strip Mugabe of degree

Should there be a limit on population growth?

Israel to ask US for new cutting-edge jets

Iran hostage forecasts new career as weather presenter

400, 000 dead!

So what do you do for your country?

Ethnic Police Officers

Simon Cowell's Apology

Can we have our money back?

Bootiful �1/2 M for Bernard Matthews.!

Arms deal to secure Saudi Arabia.

liam byrne immigration statement

US troops on murder sprees in Afghanistan and Iraq

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