by Ellee Seymour | Jun 1, 2006 | updates
David Lucas had more than his 5 mins of fame by claiming to sell gallows to despotic regimes. But his business partner has revealed it is all a hoax, he is just a petfood salesman with an obsession about capital punishment who has just the one set of gallows he built...
by Ellee Seymour | Jun 1, 2006 | updates
Concorde – our lost national treasure I half expected David Cameron to make an announcement yesterday supporting plans to bring Concorde out of retirement to lead a fly-past for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012 – what a brilliant and...
by Ellee Seymour | May 31, 2006 | updates
Deep in Naarfuk, life moves at a much slower pace. It is great to see this has been reflected in the village of Deopham where its welcoming sign ask motorists rather quaintly to “drive you steady”. I imagine this use of local dialect instantly puts a smile...
by Ellee Seymour | May 31, 2006 | updates
The highly esteemed Spectator and Sunday Telegraph writer, country walker and fellow Cambridgeshire inhabitant, Ross Clark, is asking us all to put our thinking caps on. He is writing a book on bizarre rules and regulations. There must be zillions of them. Please...
by Ellee Seymour | May 30, 2006 | updates
Where will these gallows end up? A Suffolk farmer who diversified into building gallows is attracting huge support in the UK, including several high-ranking police officers. Is this something we should be concerned about? The gallows are exported to dictators Robert...
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