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Which mother do you feel sorry for?
After Margaret Mizen's truly selfless words following the murder of her 16-year-old son Jimmy, which mother do you feel sorry for? Jimmy, a devout Roman Catholic, was slashed across the neck with a broken glass dish in a bakery in south-east London by a man in his 20s...
Me and my compass
I'm planning to learn how to read a compass this weekend. It is something I have always wanted to do, so I have booked a session with my local ramblers group. It's being held on the grounds of the very gracious Wimpole Hall tomorrow. Doe this this mean I will no...
Actor Simon MacCorkindale to visit Headway
I was thrilled to learn today that dishy actor Simon MacCorkindale is to visit Headway Cambridgeshire and will pass on some tips to brain injury survivors about remembering lines and overcoming nerves. Meeting the star of stage and screen will make their day....
The missing- Amy Fitzpatrick
The uncle of a missing teenager who vanished from her home in the Costa del Sol on New Year's Day has asked me to highlight her case. The stepfather of 15-year-old Amy Fitzpatrick is offering a "substantial" reward for information about her disappearance. Four months...
New online staff blacklist
Staff accused of theft or damage at their workplace are to be named and shamed on a new database which is due to be launched later this month. It could mean they find it impossible to find future employment. What is shocking about this is that they can be named and...
One by one, only the good die young…
It was six years ago this August that two angelic 10-year-old girls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were brutally murdered in Soham, a village close to where I live. They were killed by Ian Huntley, a trusted caretaker at Soham Village College, an excellent secondary...
Congratulations Boris!
Why did so many leading PR agencies fail to accurately grasp the discontented mood of Londoners and predict that Boris Johnson would win the London Mayoralty contest? In an article for PR Week, only three out of 10 top agencies stated that they felt Boris stood a...
Brown’s Black Friday
All is quiet over at LabourHome. At 11.20 am, nobody had said a word yet about their sensational defeat yesterday, their last post still urges voters to back Ken. It's tired and weary, lacklustre and defeatist. I wonder what they will say about Labour's worst local...
Good luck Boris
Good luck Boris, it won't be long before London is blue. Let's hope Conservatives can win in Cambridge too where they do not have one seat, the city council is controlled by Lib Dems (28) followed by Labour (13).