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Death threats forces blogger to stop
Blogging for me has been 99% fun one with just the odd nutter and one cyber bully. For Kathy Sierra, a respected American blogger, it has turned into the most horrific nightmare after she was issued with in a series of death threats which have forced...
An away day
I have appointments in London today, which includes dropping into 18 Doughty Street to pick up my camcorder to be a citizen journalist. I'm really looking forward to being a roving reporter again and filing some reports; you can be one too if you are a registered...
Love on the buses
Here's one good reason to forsake your car and use public transport - you could buy a ticket to romance as a survey has shown that 1 in 30 people fall in love on a coach. These don't seem particularly high odds to me, but I like the two other results which showed...
So where is Bona Mugabe?
Does anyone know the whereabouts of Bona Mugabe? Our government thought she was studying at the LSE, but this has been hotly denied by the university. So is she in the UK or isn't she? Regardless of her whereabouts, the Foreign Office is pressing ahead with a...
Sir Alex and climate change
There were two major events in Cambridge last night, a sell-out concert featuring Lemar and just across the road, the even more pulsating Al Gore himself presenting his Oscar winning film An Inconvenient Truth to...
Duty calls
I'm afraid I need to take a blogging break for a week to spend quality time preparing my next project for my CIPR PR diploma, as well as keeping on top of my work. Blogging is immensely distracting, as well as pleasurable, and my assignment requires...
Wishing Janice the very best of luck
I'm giving Janice Small a plug in her bid to win the Calder Valley selection. I know it means the world to her. We met when we both worked as regional press officers during the 2005 general election and her driving passion and commitment to the Conservative...
Jeremy, out in Africa
Guest blogger today is Jeremy Jacobs writing about his cathartic trek in the Maasai foothills to boost funds for the breast cancer campaign following the tragic young death of his sister Jackie. How have you marked the death of someone close? My family...
Zero tolerance for Ipswich prostitutes
Three months on from the terrible murders of the five Ipswich prostitutes, police and council chiefs are planning the biggest ever crackdown aimed at ridding the town of its red-light district. Plans being drawn up include stricter use of Asbos against...