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Nuclear power stations risk being flooded
Greenpeace could have something here, nuclear power stations built along the coast in East Anglia are at risk of being flooded if sea levels rise as predicted. These are the findings of a study by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University...
Why is my blog banned in China?
I have never considered myself a rebel, but it appears that by blog has been banned in China, according to this test. Why not try it yourself and see if you will join me in isolation. So why do you think I have been banned? Nobody swears on my blog, we have...
Welshcake Limoncello’s Letter from Sicily
One of my daily reads is Sicily Scene penned by linguist teacher Welshcakes Limoncello who left her Cardiff home after retiring young enough to enjoy the irresistible charms of the Italian island. She has no plans to return. She waxes lyrical about its cuisine and...
Why so few women councillors?
This year is the centenary of legislation which stated that women should not be disqualified by sex or marriage for election as a councillor. Yet after 100 years, there are only 29% of women councillors, with only 14% serving as women council leaders...
Let’s remember our women in Africa
We rarely hear of AIDS in the UK today, even though newly diagnosed cases doubled in 2005 to more than 7,500 compared to 2000. It's even harder to imagine what it must be like for sufferers in Africa. By the end of 2005, there were five and a half...
American blogger in longest contempt case
More new from America, where a blogger has spent more than six months behind bars in California for refusing to hand over video footage of a violent San Francisco demo a a G8 summit meeting. It is the longest contempt of court sentence served by someone in...
Washington’s latest sex scandal
Dick Morris, the man credited with Bill Clinton's presidential victory and UKIP's outstanding success in the 2004 Euro Election, is named as a client of a former Washington madam who prosecutors want to gag. Deborah Palfrey has threatened...
An evening at the American Embassy
There was a time when most of my invites were for those dull parties where household products and jewellery were sold. I now seem to have been elevated on to another list. Totally out of the blue, I have this evening been invited to the American...
The small man can win too
I do admire the small man who stands up to the giants of industry after suffering an injustice, those David and Goliath stories, like motorist David Bond who sent the bailiffs to Tesco when they refused to compensate him fully for damage to his van...