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Gallows man is a sick minded hoaxer
David Lucas had more than his 5 mins of fame by claiming to sell gallows to despotic regimes. But his business partner has revealed it is all a hoax, he is just a petfood salesman with an obsession about capital punishment who has just the one set of gallows he built...
Please, let’s bring back Concorde
Concorde - our lost national treasure I half expected David Cameron to make an announcement yesterday supporting plans to bring Concorde out of retirement to lead a fly-past for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012 - what a brilliant and fantastic idea....
Drive you steady now, this is Naarfuk
Deep in Naarfuk, life moves at a much slower pace. It is great to see this has been reflected in the village of Deopham where its welcoming sign ask motorists rather quaintly to "drive you steady". I imagine this use of local dialect instantly puts a smile on the face...
Thinking caps on for Ross Clark
The highly esteemed Spectator and Sunday Telegraph writer, country walker and fellow Cambridgeshire inhabitant, Ross Clark, is asking us all to put our thinking caps on. He is writing a book on bizarre rules and regulations. There must be zillions of them. Please...
Farmer profits by dealing in death
Where will these gallows end up? A Suffolk farmer who diversified into building gallows is attracting huge support in the UK, including several high-ranking police officers. Is this something we should be concerned about? The gallows are exported to dictators Robert...
Why Prescott should be sacked
What exactly is the DPM juggling? Stripped of his department, John Prescott demonstrates the importance of still enjoying a close relationship with his colleagues. While us lesser mortals were working hard last Thursday, and Tony Blair was on his way to Washington,...
Farm payments cock-up made one man a millionaire!
It's great to see Iain highlighting Defra's gross inefficency. I wonder if his parents are aware that they stand to lose up to 20% of their European farm payments because Tony Blair wants the money to be diverted into environmental projects instead. Iain has mentioned...
One of life’s true eccentrics
Sheep impressionist Robin Page Robin Page, former TV presenter of One Man and His Dog, is one of life's true eccentrics. He genuinely doesn't care what people think about him. Last week he made sheep impressions in mockery of Lib Dem colleagues at South Cambridgeshire...
Our Third World hospital – are our unions going soft?
King's Lynn's debt ridden hospital Now I really know we do have a Third World hospital in our midst. Staff at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn - a stone's throw from the royal residence in Sandringham - have been told to take their rubbish home to help save...