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The missing – Leo Balley
Leo Balley vanished while on a camping holiday with his father and friends near the idyllic Lake Fourchu in the Taillefere Mountains in France nine years ago. The men were putting up the tent when the six-years-old disappeared. Amazingly, the...
Let’s help Rachel catch this cyberstalker
Could you guess that the woman in this pic is a deranged cyberstalker who has been posting hateful messages to Rachel from North London over the last year? She looks so friendly. She is Felicity Jane Lowde and has been convicted of harassing Rachel by repeatedly...
Have a nice, wet weekend
Although I dislike swearing, I do like the sentiment behind Hugh's wacky cartoon business card, it's what we should all aspire to in our own way. And it's certainly one way of being memorable. What's the most unusual business card you have ever had? ...
The missing – Leung Wan-wah
Despite the fact that my blog is banned in China, I would like to highlight the mysterious disappearance of a young Chinese girl, Leung Wan-wah. She vanished in August 1998 at the age of nine. A substantial reward of $100,000 was offered for information. Leung...
Conservatives plan to protect young foreign brides
My mother Loula (pic) was a wartime bride from Greece when she married my English father at 16, he was eight years older and stationed there as a soldier. She arrived in the UK alone on a ship and couldn't speak English following their very brief...
Conservative women and pensions
I'm kicking myself that I shall be away next month when this important pension summit is held by the Conservative Women's Organisation. It is such an important subject, one which fills me with dread if I think about it very long. In fact, I tend to...
The missing – Sarah Benford
Police have launched a murder hunt following the disappearance of Sarah Benford, even though her body has never been discovered. Her story was also re-enacted on Crimewatch. Sarah went missing from a children's home in Northampton in April 2000, when she was...
Can journalists converse online too?
Continuous rail delays and a fire on the underground, followed by a snail's pace taxi crawl in bumper to bumper rush hour traffic, meant that I arrived breathless and late and missed half the seminar on the politics of online journalism yesterday. The...
The politics of online journalism
I shall be participating in a seminar later today about the changing face of journalism as social media becomes increasing popular. The seminar topic is Citizen or Consumer – the politics of online journalism, organised by POLIS, the journalism and society...