by Ellee Seymour | Jan 4, 2008 | updates
Would it have made any difference if Iqbal Abul Nasr had answered a missed phone call from her husband? Would he still have sent her a cruel text message stating: “I divorce you because you didn’t answer your husband.� I doubt it. In line with Shaira law, men do...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 4, 2008 | updates
There is something very magical about swans, particularly this time of the year when thousands of graceful Bewicks and Whoopers migrate from Arctic Russia and Iceland to spend the winter at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Welney, close to where I live. When two...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 3, 2008 | updates
There are more young people under 35 unable to work because of stress and depression than on the dole, according to today’s FT. The report says that more than half a million young Britons are officially too sick to work and claim incapacity benefits. This figure...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 3, 2008 | updates
I use Twitter and think it is a great micro-blogging service. And now it has been credited with finding a missing runaway 16-year-old girl, Manessa Donovan, believed to have been with a 38-year-old man. This is what her family says: In truth, the search had stalled...
by Ellee Seymour | Jan 2, 2008 | updates
I’ve no idea how many women firearms officers we have in our police force at the moment. Very few, it may seem, because “macho” endurance tests prevent them from promotion into specialist units. Cambs Chief Constable Julie Spence is president of the...
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