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Can we protect our goalies?
I spent the morning making teas at my son's football match where one of the mums expressed concern about her goalie son getting bashed on the head, he'd suffered a bad collision with the goal post last weekend. This topic was highlighted recently by the serious head...
Mid-Norfolk goes to George Freeman
For those of you who have been following James Turmbridge's Herculean challenge for Mid-Norfolk, I'm afraid it ended with a disappointing result for him today, particularly after his stomach churning fight against the odds to make it through to the final selection. He...
Labour donor speaks out over "witch hunt"
Gladiatorial Grant Shapps has reminded police to get their act together over the "cash for peerage" investigation, which has already had three extensions. I'm sure one of those under scrutiny, former Cambridge-based biotech millionaire Sir Chris Evans, wishes the...
Body parts trade needs regulating
The bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke deserved to be left to rest in peace, as did those other corpses which were mutilated and sold off in an astonishingly lucrative multi-million pound illegal body parts trade. The fact that he was 95 did not deter...
Lib Dems target York Outer on "non-issues"
There is no shortage of material which Liberal Democrats, like Conservatives, can choose as campaign material. Only the Lib Dems are so short of ideas in York Outer, that they could only think of leafleting householders to let people know that Julian Sturdy lives...
Will Tesco soon be running our Post Offices?
With the future of our post offices under threat, I'm wondering how long it will be before they are based at Tesco stores up and down the country. This will be the perfect cop-out for Tony Blair, he can continue to ignore the plight of rural communities struggling to...
Norfolk challenges Government over wheelie bin bugs
It's interesting how everyone is now talking about rubbish and how it should be disposed of. It is a very hot topic because if the UK fails to meet its recycling targets, then it will be heavily fined. And now the Government has no choice but to act tough because it...
Where were the great British designers?
This is the snazzy winning logo which beat off 1,700 others to mark the 50th celebrations of the European Union. It was designed by Szymon Skrzypczak (pic), from Poland. It very cleverly picks on different type faces from different countries - I guess the UK is...
Dell investigates my nightmare laptop
Six weeks after describing my nightmare laptop which has been bad news from almost day one, Dell has picked up the link and contacted me. It is now out of warranty, is still overheating and cutting out and we have added an exterior keyboard as that packed up too. Yet...