POLICE WATCHDOG UPHOLDS PEACE ACTIVIST'S COMPLAINT
By Tom Pugh, PA
An elderly peace activist who was stopped and searched under the Terrorism Act
while wearing an anti-Tony Blair T-shirt during a Labour Party conference has
had a complaint upheld by the police watchdog.
John Catt, 83, was...
I would like to see the statue of George IV at the bottom of Church Street permanently fitted with a BEARD in tribute to this fine servant of our county.
I've got most of the back numbers of On The Up/Seaside Saga.
The bad news is, they're in my loft. In Carlisle.
I'll only go and get them when I can sell the house. After that, you can borrow them if you like.
I reckon it could be YEARS before you get them though.
Boring BBC answer ahoy.
It's a bank holiday, so the TV producers who work in the BBC Oxford newsroom (which produces a programme for Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Swindon as well as parts of Berkshire, Northamptonshire and the Cotswolds; what's known as a sub-opt) might have taken the day...
It can't have been driven by an AUTHENTIC London bus driver. A real one would have side-swiped Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton as they passed him on the left...
Shunted off the course by someone French, in a manner rather reminiscent of Damon Hill being rear-ended by that cheese-eating surrender monkey Jacques Villeneuve.
Bah.
Cor. I'd heard he was on an absolute PACKET at the Mail, so the Guardian must have bust the budget to get him. It's not like they're short of good sports hacks either -- or ones based in Sussex. But good for him.
I wish I'd had money on that now. Bugger.
Anyway -- Also pissing me off today: the sign for the Oval's 100 Hundred's (sic) bar has an incorrect apostrophe in it. Fools.
And Ramps and Murray took part in the biggest strop I've seen on a cricket field for yonks. I thought it was going to get a...
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David Cameron is going to Georgia today. That'll be the same David Cameron who criticised Gordon Brown for going to Iraq in order to score political points...
The government are about to find themselves up the creek after the Olympics. They started handing out honours like confetti during the Blair years (Paul Collingwood MBE for playing just one 2005 Ashes test, anyone?) and now they are going to have to keep up the momentum.
For example -- it's...