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Celebrating zeroes at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
I've been working on a contract at the amazing Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute for the last couple of months, a world-leading centre for the study of genomes - the set of chemical instruction for life. It recently celebrated its latest phenomenal sequencing milestone:...
How the govt should tackle our young looters
It was shocking to see so many frenzied young people among those looting in our cities, driven by greed and intoxicated by the gangland culture. The question I ask is "what about their parents?" I couldn't believe how the parents of one 14-year-old girl couldn't be...
A night with Tom Jones
How many 71-year-old men have women throwing knickers at them? Only one man I know can manage it - the sex bomb from the valleys, Tom Jones, who despite his advancing years, can still perform an amazingly energetic sell-out show. I was among the 30,000 crowd at...
London’s burning no-go areas
As the terrifying violence and looting continues to sweeps across London into parts of Ealing and Croydon during a third night of unrest, here is some advice for the government's Cobra committee when it meets today, courtesy of a Sky New blog comment: Posted...
A warning for Karin Herzog fans
Nine weeks after placing my Karin Herzog order it still has not arrived. This should act as a warning for others like me who are keen to try what appears to be a wonderful product which is loved by celebrities. The problems is their UK distributors do deliver to their...
Amy Winehouse and her demons
I'm playing Amy's poignant Back to Black as I write this. We have read so much about Amy Winehouse's untimely death in the last week, there is very little to add. Death is always a sharp reminder of our own mortality, of leaving behind broken hearted loved ones to...
Rupert Murdoch’s apology
This is Rupert Murdoch's apology published in today's national press: We are sorry The News of the World was in the business of holding others to account. It failed when it came to itself. We are deeply suffered for the hurt suffered to the individuals affected. We...
Why Hayley Turner is a first class champion
Hayley Turner is an outstanding woman who is achieving terrific success in a man's world - and is sharing her success with Headway Cambridgeshire, the charity I support. The UK's top woman jockey last week won became the female rider to win a Group One race outright,...
My News of the World job
I'm still in shock after hearing that the News of the World is to close. As a young cub reporter I used to admire its undercover work and stand against injustice. However, in its desperation for sales and survival, it overstretched the limits of human decency,...