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Look out for me with the WAGS tomorrow
I shall be sitting with my family in a box at Manchester United tomorrow (hopefully the sun will be shining), thanks to my husband who won the VIP tickets as a prize at a corporate dinner. We have a meal and drinks included, as well as on-site car...
Can you recommend a hotel in Euston Road?
My son David has been booked in at University College Hospital, London for a biopsy on 10 September. There are no facilities for me to sleep over, neither do they provide hostel accommodation, they recommended I find a local b & b or hotel. They...
How could the unthinkable have happened to Rhys?
The whole nation can only feel shock and revulsion at the shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones who had spent the evening playing football and, according to an eye witness, was gunned down by a youth with his face covered by a hood, who rode past on...
Father at 90 – and he wants more babies
Regardless of the ethics about bringing a child into an overpopulated world when you cannot remember how many you already have, I would like to congratulate an Indian man who has become the world's oldest dad at 90 - and wants more babies! Nanu Ram Jogi, a...
Why can’t researchers get their facts right?
David Cameron has made an embarrassing error by wrongly claiming that maternity services at King's Lynn's Queen Elizabeth Hospital were under threat in his latest high profile announcement of NHS reforms. The fault was blamed on a typing error, according to...
Lord Philips and his citizen’s arrest of 10-year-old lad
Suffolk Lib Dem peer Lord Andrew Philips made a citizen's arrest on a boy believed to be 10-years-old yesterday for allegedly throwing his bike to the ground. While I'm also fed up up with the lack of respect and yobbish anti social behaviour of some young people...
Did Iain join the Swiss strippers?
I wonder if this is the real reason Iain headed for Switzerland at the weekend. No need to be bashful Iain, after all, it is art. I'm not sure I can pick you out though. Did you all have goose pimples? It is an amusing coincidence, and one I hope Iain will...
Albania appoints glamorous Roma to head its recycling collection
Unlike the BBC reporter, I was not surprised to learn that a woman is spearheading Albania's only household recycling programme. The fact that she is a Roma will be a bonus - she will understand only too well that waste is a resource which has value and can...
MP must choose Heaven or Hell
You are probably unaware that there is a lengthy seven-week general election campaign taking place in Jamaica right now where its first woman prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, is fighting to retain her seat for the People’s National Party....