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How will we be living in 2030?
Can you imagine what life will be like in 2030? What changes will technology and medicine have made to our lives? Do you fancy living to 130? Futurologist Ray Hammond has come up with some answers in a thought provoking book entitled The World in 2030. My thoughts are...
Caretaker’s home used to teach migrant children
So how can we teach our migrant children which turn up on our doorstep? What thought did Tony Blair give to this when he opened our doors to their families? Just to let you know what is happening in Fenland, my home patch, where a secondary school has resorted to...
How good is a $100 laptop?
Can you imagine the excitement of these young Nigerian school children who have been given a $100 laptop each as part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) programme in Africa. Some of them don't even have a television at home. Their local community built their...
NIAB welcomes support for GM crops
It takes a brave man to speak out on unpopular subjects, like Sir David King did today, when he supported the need to use GM technology and research for future crops. Still, as the comments were made in his last speech in his capacity as the government's chief...
An update on Loula
My mum is still in hospital where further tests are being carried out as some results caused concern. The main thing is that her spirits have improved. I was waiting at the front door of the hospital when she arrived to be admitted last night, she had travelled there...
An emergency hospital trip
I am now heading off to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn where my mother Loula is being admitted this evening for tests because of her heart and breathing difficulties. She lost her zest for living five years ago after dad died. Now she never looks after...
Could rich countries be sued for climate change?
Could the poorest countries in the world sue the rich, polluting countries which are deemed to be responsible for climate change by producing excessive carbon emissions? The Make Wealth History blog tells us that the Bonn Agreement in 2001 recognised that developed...
Defra’s luxurious bird flu jaunt
Knowing how tight Gordon Brown keeps his purse strings, and condemnation over his inadequate funding for our troops, I wonder how he will feel when he learns that Defra officials stayed at one of East Anglia's most lavish hotels when investigating the recent bird flu...
The missing – Kevin Ayotte
Kevin Ayotte was last seen by his mother playing with his brother upstairs in their summer home in Sugarbush, Minnesota. That was 25 years ago. He was just over two years old. Their mother went outside briefly and when she returned, Kevin was gone. Kevin has a scar on...