Thursday - October 29, 2009
LOCATION --- LOCATION --- LOCATION. First rule of real estate. Right? Take a look.
Nothing for me to say and honestly I can’t think of anything to say. Except, well. Ah .... It’s interesting and I guess they won’t have to put up with trick or treaters once a year.
Buyer finally found for ‘exceptional fisherman’s cottage in nature reserve’...
By Nick Mcdermott
Last updated at 8:47 AM on 29th October 2009
It is certainly a property that makes heads turn - generally in the direction of the towering nuclear power stations just yards from the front door.
But the ‘exceptional detached fisherman’s cottage’, which hit the headlines last month after estate agents failed to mention in their sales pitch the sprawling site next door, has finally found a buyer.
Far from being put off by the prospect of living in the shadow of one of Europe’s largest nuclear power stations, an unnamed local has stumped up almost the complete asking price of £247,000 and plans to move in with his family.
Described by estate agents as a ‘property not to be missed’, they rather absent-mindedly omitted to inform prospective buyers the three-bedroom home was a stone’s throw from the looming presence of the Dungeness A and B power plants.
Despite their close proximity, they even managed to leave the concrete and steel eyesores out of the lovely panoramic shots of the area surrounding the cottage.
Unsurprisingly, many prospective buyers were shocked to arrive at the headland in Kent and see that the home is just 100 yards from the perimeter fence.
Alex Robertson, 32, was horrified he turned up to view the cottage.
He said: ‘It was unbelievable. The photos make out it is an isolated cottage with nothing surrounding it at all, but that could not be further from the truth.
‘These power stations are literally at your front door. There is no escaping them, they are gargantuan.’
But it seems that one prospective buyer has not been deterred.
After the advertisement was removed from its website, a spokeswoman for Geering & Colyer estate agents, of New Romney, said that the cottage had been snapped up.
He added: ‘It is under offer. It is close to the asking price. It is a local buyer who plans to live in the property with their family.’
Dungeness A power station was decommissioned in 2006 and is to be turned into an intermediate waste store in 2014. Dungeness B, an advanced cooled reactor, still operates and there are plans to build a third plant, Dungeness C, nearby.
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Permalink • WWI soldier’s hidden diary reveals amazing trench truces
You folks MUST see the link for this amazing story.
I always seem to be surprised when things like this suddenly turn up, because I think most if not all the vets from that time are gone, and after all, how much else can there be left. Well, lots more I guess.
His sister recently passed away aged 99. His diaries and letters were stored away all these many years. Gosh.
When we read about what these guys (on both sides) saw and did and put up with, on the one hand I can imagine how deadly and how sickening it must have been. But there’s a huge difference between me thinking I can imagine it, and living through what they lived through.
And how sad that he survived the war only to die at a very young age of TB. Which was a scourge in those days. Death is so damn unfair.
What a total bummer. I’ll never be convinced that a million other guys lived and died in those god forsaken trenches, so that England could become what it is today. It’s sad beyond belief to the point of tears. It seems like everything two generations bled for has been flushed out to sea.
Anyway ....
Come on over, Fritz! WWI soldier’s hidden diary reveals amazing trench truces soldiers would call to yell names at each other
By Cher Thornhill
Last updated at 10:01 AM on 29th October 2009With shells screaming overhead and German snipers only 75 yards away, just staying alive was a remarkable achievement.
Yet huddled in the mud-filled trenches, Sapper John T French found the time to compile a remarkable diary.
Its pencil-written pages, in immaculate copperplate, give an astonishing insight into life on the front line between 1915 and 1917.
It details how the opposing trenches were sometimes so close that the two sides would call a temporary truce to exchange friendly insults across No Man’s Land.
In one ‘rather curious’ incident, a British soldier stood above the parapet to shout: ‘Come on over, Fritz’ in a comedy German accent. One of the enemy then called back - in a perfect English accent - ‘No blooming fear’.
Both sides then put their heads above the trench for half an hour to ‘laugh and shout’ at each other before ‘heads went down and the war went on the same as usual’.
The three volumes were discovered among the possessions of Mr French’s sister Emily following her recent death at the age of 99.
They describe the horror of the trenches, such as removing ‘piles of men’ killed in action and ‘shifting and ducking’ bullets which scream ‘like ten thousand devils on the loose’.
But Mr French, a tin miner from Redruth in Cornwall, also writes about the enticing smell of frying bacon, the relief of a good ‘sing song’, and discovering watercress growing in a stream which ‘went all right with bread and cheese’.
Mr French was eventually promoted to second lieutenant. Although he was wounded in action, he survived the war, but developed TB and died in 1929 aged 37.
He married a young pianist named Eve during a spell in the U.S., but they are believed not to have had any children.
The diaries are now on display at the Redruth Old Cornwall Society Museum.
John French’s DiaryMr French, one of 11 children, was born in 1892.
He was sent to France in 1915 as a member of the 254th Tunnelling Company of the Royal Engineers.
His diaries describe some of the bloodiest battles of the Great War. He spends his days and nights ‘up to my knees in water’ digging trenches just 75 yards away from Germans who throw a hail of bombs and grenades which ‘go hizzing’ around his head.
John French’s World War I diaryThe men were forced to work in whispers as their tunnels weave between those of the Germans and they flee when chemical weapons descend like ‘thick yellow fog’.
Award: John French, was awarded the Military Cross for Conspicuous Bravery
Enemy snipers, including one particular ‘smart and hot’ shooter, regularly kill his comrades.
Mr French describes the ‘awful mess’ of limbs sticking out of the ground and times when he is called to dig out men who have been trapped in mud and collapsed trenches.
Three days after the ‘come on over, Fritz’ incident, he writes: ‘Up in orders today that any German looking over the parapet is to be shot and any man found talking to them is to be placed under arrest.
‘This is the result of the affair a few mornings ago.’ Mr French served at Ypres in 1917 - where one battle saw half a million men die - and he talks of the regular ‘big pushes’ and how ‘there won’t be many of us left at this rate’.
His entry for August 16, 1917, reads: ‘Had a rather narrow escape. Shell hit me full in the left side, ripped through my tunic but was stopped by my thick leather belt.
Escaped with nothing worse than a bruise.’ Yesterday his niece Wendy Dawe, of Illogan, near Redruth, said his journals make her ‘immensely proud’.
She added: ‘It is in diaries such as this, made by men trying to do their bit, that we see how brave they were and what it was like trying to fight and survive.’
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 28, 2009
A Bad Death
TORONTO – Two coyotes attacked a promising young musician as she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada, and authorities said she died Wednesday of her injuries. The victim was identified as Taylor Mitchell, 19, a singer-songwriter from Toronto who was touring her new album on the East Coast.
She was hiking solo on a trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia on Tuesday when the attack occurred. She was airlifted to a Halifax hospital in critical condition and died Wednesday morning, authorities said.
Coyotes, which also are known as prairie wolves, are found from Central America to the United States and Canada.
Wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft said coyote attacks are extremely rare because the animals are usually shy.
Bancroft, a retired biologist with Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources, said it’s possible the coyotes thought Mitchell was a deer or other prey.
“It’s very unusual and is not likely to be repeated,” Bancroft said. “We shouldn’t assume that coyotes are suddenly going to become the big bad wolf.”
Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokeswoman Brigdit Leger said other hikers heard Mitchell’s screams for help on Tuesday and called emergency police dispatchers.
Police who were in the area reached the scene quickly and shot one of the animals, apparently wounding it. But the wounded animal and a companion coyote managed to get away.
Paul Maynard of Emergency Health Services said Mitchell already was in critical condition when paramedics arrived on the scene and had multiple bite wounds over her entire body.
“She was losing a considerable amount of blood from the wounds,” he said.
An official with Parks Canada said they blocked the entrance to the trail where Mitchell was attacked and were trying to find the animals to determine what prompted such an unusual attack.
“There’s been some reports of aggressive animals, so it’s not unknown,” said Helene Robichaud, the park’s superintendent. “But we certainly never have had anything so dramatic and tragic.”
Mitchell was an up-and-coming folk and country musician who was nominated for a 2009 Canadian Folk Music Award in the Young Performer of the Year category.
“Words can’t begin to express the sadness and tragedy of losing such a sweet, compassionate, vibrant, and phenomenally talented young woman,” Lisa Weitz, Mitchell’s manager, said in an e-mail. “She just turned 19 two months ago, and was so excited about the future.”
The 19-year-old Toronto woman was hiking along the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, described in brochures as a seven-kilometer (4.3-mile) loop for “intermediate” hikers, leading to a whale lookout.
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Two coyotes at the scene were “extremely aggressive” when authorities arrived, she said. Both animals fled into the woods after police fired a shot at one, possibly injuring it.One of the animals was eventually tracked down and killed by wildlife officials. The trail is now closed as authorities hunt for the second animal, said Germaine Lemoine of Parks Canada.
PORT HAWKESBURY — The species of coyote found in Cape Breton is highly adaptable and is larger than its western cousin, says a Department of Natural Resources biologist.
Don Anderson said Wednesday he hasn’t seen anything to indicate that the species in Cape Breton is a so-called coywolf, which is produced when wolves and coyotes interbreed. He noted there are no wolves in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. Recent media reports have suggested the eastern coyote is actually a hybrid of coyotes and wolves.“We do have a larger coyote that’s bigger than the western version,” he said. “It does travel in groups, as opposed to the western, which tends to travel alone.”
It adapted in size as it moved east, which could have been in response to habitat, temperature, the type of prey and other factors, Anderson said.
“I can’t say that there aren’t some out there that are hybrids with dogs or wolves for that matter, but don’t think the whole population is based on that,” he said.
The first confirmed siting of a coyote in Nova Scotia came in 1977, and they’ve been in Cape Breton since about the early 1980s.
Don’t hike alone. Don’t go off into the wilderness unarmed. If you won’t carry a gun then carry a stout staff. Whether or not there is anything more to this story than what was reported here, it was a preventable death.
On the third hand, there were other people nearby, so it doesn’t sound like she was really all that alone. Maybe she’d taken a pit stop in the bushes or something. And the Mounties got there so quick that the animals were still on her. But maybe, just maybe, a little effort on her part could have saved her own life. We’ll probably never know. Very sad.
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Permalink • DISORDERED LAW IN THE LAND WHERE THE LAW IS AN ASS.
Some will recall a recent post with regard to an elderly woman who wrote to her council objecting to an in your face queer pride march in her town and then getting a visit from the police as her letter was seen as possible hate speech. Hey, serious stuff. Must be looked into. Can’t take any chances ya know.
Then I saw this cartoon in the morning paper and these articles from the same issue of the Daily Mail and that decided on this posting.
Just loony tune stuff none of us will understand. Except the cartoon. If you live here, you really understand this.
‘PHEW! FOR ONE TERRIBLE MOMENT THERE I THOUGHT HE WAS COMING FOR US.’
£1m stolen in 665 raids. Yet burglar walks free… and is given a new home
By Andrew Levy
28th October 2009Uproar: Judge Christopher Ball says prolific thief Bradley Wernham had turned over a new leaf
One of the country’s most prolific thieves has been allowed to walk free from court after a judge was told he had turned over a new leaf.
Bradley Wernham, 18, has committed hundreds of offences during a £1million crime spree that began when he was 12 and involved stealing luxury cars and breaking into churches, homes and pubs.
But after admitting 20 burglaries and asking for another 645 offences to be taken into account, he was told that rather than going to jail he was to be relocated to a new town and given a rent-free home to live in with his girlfriend.
The punishment was handed out by Judge Christopher Ball QC, who has caused uproar in the past with a series of lenient sentences.
There was fury in the town where Wernham will be starting his new life. Chelmsford West MP Simon Burns branded the sentence a ‘joke’.
He added: ‘It is a disgrace that Chelmsford is being used as a dumping ground for somebody who is a habitual thief.
‘It is misguided do-gooding philosophy when a custodial sentence would have been more appropriate.’
The Safer Harlow Partnership, a crime reduction body composed of organisations including councils and Essex Police, is covering Wernham’s deposit and first month’s rent until he can start claiming benefits and pay them back.
Wernham had already been convicted of 26 offences before appearing at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday - bringing his total number of known crimes to 691, an average of an offence every three days.His favourite targets were his home town, as well as nearby Bishop’s Stortford and Sawbridgeworth.
Crimes included the theft of two Mercedes cars worth £85,000, an Audi RS4 valued at £50,000, a Porsche Caymen, also worth £50,000, and a £30,000 Land Rover Discovery.
“until he can start claiming benefits and pay them back.”
Easy Peasy. So as I understand it and check me here. He’ll get a taxpayer loan as where else is that money coming from, and pay back the lender with .... taxpayer money as he will be claiming benefits. Wha - Ha. What a great system.
Parents banned from watching their children in playgrounds… in case they are paedophiles
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:39 PM on 28th October 2009A council has banned parents from supervising their children in public playgrounds until they have undergone criminal record checks.
Adults have been excluded from two adventure play areas in Watford, apart from a handful of council-vetted ‘play rangers’ who will assist youngsters, it emerged today.
Parents will be forced to watch their children from outside the perimeter fence.
Watford Borough Council claims it is just following Government guidelines and cannot allow adults to walk around playgrounds ‘unchecked’.
But parents are furious that they are all being labelled ‘potential paedophiles’ and branded the ban ‘a joke’.
Mother-of-five Marcella Bergin, 35, said she was disgusted when she heard she would not be allowed to stay in the park with her children.
Mrs Bergin, from Watford, has been visiting one of the playgrounds affected with her three eldest children for many years.
She said: When I heard about what they were planning to do my jaw just dropped.
‘It’s like they are branding all parents potential paedophiles which is disgraceful - 99 per cent of people are great parents and certainly not child abusers.
A few days ago I posted an article with regard to a child rapist and all around baby abuser who threatened legal action as regards, “his good name.”
You will recall that. OK ... same abuse story but a bit of an update.
Out in two years: Fury as judges cut sentence on Baby P tormentor because he ‘does not pose significant risk’
By Vanessa Allen
updated at 8:37 AM on 28th October 2009Low risk: The Court of Appeal said Jason Owen was not likely to be a serious risk to the public in future
A paedophile jailed over the death of Baby Peter will walk free in less than two years after judges slashed his prison sentence yesterday.
Child protection campaigners accused judges of ‘spitting on Baby P’s grave’ after the Appeal Court ruled that Jason Owen was not dangerous enough to be locked up indefinitely.
A panel of judges admitted that Owen, 37, was ‘feckless and irresponsible’, that he posed some risk of offending again and that he could be a danger to the public after his release.
But they still cut his jail sentence for his role in Baby P’s horrific abuse and death to just six years because they did not believe he posed a ‘ significant’ risk.
This means he will serve only three years - and he will be out on licence in less than two years.
Right you are judges. This is the fellow who doesn’t really look like he may pose a future threat to anyone. He isn’t twisted. No. Must be the rest of the law abiding population then.
Every day you convince yourself there can’t be a more obscene story of our decline into a moral morass, aided and abetted by an incompetent executive, who no longer have the wit or the will to address the insanity, but of course in modern day Britain, such faith is always short-lived.
- Andy, Sussex, 28/10/2009 16:26
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Permalink • Grey skies are gonna clear up
Couldn’t do it yesterday. Try again today at 8am. 8:20am. 9am. 10:20am. 11am. 11:20am. Delay delay delay ... and finally a big enough break in the clouds, a window of blue sky all the way up through the atmosphere.
T minus 10 ... 9 ... 8 ... ... ... 3 ... 2 ... 1. We have ignition. And away it went, a long white pencil on a pillar of fire. With half the thrust of the Saturn V, but less than a third of the weight, veteran rocket launch watchers saw that this takeoff really was a takeoff. Zoom! Within a handful of seconds Ares was 2 miles up and going trans-sonic. Definitely moving.
The whole event lasted just a little over 2 minutes, and the booster engine test seemed to go perfectly. The vectored thrust ring worked just fine, the unusual missile shape wasn’t wiggling or warping, and the upper stage separation went off without a hitch. Nice job NASA!
The booster engine shell deployed a parachute and will be recovered for reuse. The upper stage for this test flight was a dummy, so they let it fall into the ocean, about 125 miles downrange.
And the super bestest part of the whole event was that the news crews were forced to cut off Obama giving some long winded speech where he was giving a Congressional Gold Medal to a retired Senator, Edward William Brooke (R-MA), 93, who got the prize for being the first black to get elected there. [ Well, except for Mississippi Senator Hiram Wells, who was elected nearly 100 years before that, in 1870. But he was only an interim Senator, as Mississippi had not yet rejoined the Union at that time. So Wells served for only a little over a year ]. Hey, good for old Senator Brooke, really. But news-wise, this was just a fill piece. And when NASA lit the fuse, even MSNBC cut away from him, and they never cut back. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
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Permalink • GUY FINDS BURGLARS IN MOM’S HOUSE, KILLS ONE. MURDER SAYS IDIOT PROSECUTOR. IDIOT COURT AGREES.
My first post for this Wednesday morning seems so mundane following Drew’s posting of the Melanie Phillips editorial yesterday. Hers is the story of the planned assassination of a culture. The genocide if I may borrow the term, of an entire history of a country.
I guess my effort here this morning has far less impact except to the poor bastard being charged with murder, for the killing of a slime punk burglar he found in his mother’s house. Actually, he found two but sadly only wounded the other rather stop his useless breathing.
The court says he used excessive force and his violence was “gratuitous.” How might the court know that exactly? In the heat of the moment, under stress, can anyone say with certainty exactly and without fail, how they might act? Whatever.
I see nothing wrong at all and in fact find it laudatory to kill someone found in a place they shouldn’t be. Like YOUR OWN HOME or your mother’s home.
Way I see it, now there’s one less criminal marauder to commit future mayhem. And that’s a good thing.
Accused of murder, council official’s son who knifed two burglars raiding his mother’s home
By Andy Dolan
Last updated at 12:16 AM on 28th October 2009A man who stabbed a burglar to death after catching him in the act was charged with murder yesterday.
Omari Roberts, 23, was remanded in custody. Roberts had found two teenage burglars in his mother’s house when he arrived to visit her.
After chasing one of the youths, aged 14, from the property, he returned to find 17-year-old Tyler Juett still there.
Tyler Juett, 17, died after he was allegedly stabbed by Omari Roberts
There was a struggle and Juett was fatally stabbed in the chest, Nottingham Magistrates Court was told.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the decision to charge Roberts months after the incident in March had been taken after ‘careful consideration’.
Its lawyers believed he had used ‘excessive and gratuitous force’.
The case echoes that of Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who became a cause celebre when he was jailed for life for murder in 2000 after shooting dead a teenage intruder at his dilapidated Norfolk home.
His conviction was reduced to manslaughter on appeal and he was released in 2003.
Yesterday the court heard that Roberts’s mother Jacqueline McKenzie-Johnson, 46, a senior official at Nottingham City Council, was not at home when her son arrived on the afternoon of March 13.
Lee Shepherd, prosecuting, said Roberts first discovered the 14-year-old, who was also stabbed during a confrontation.
Roberts chased him down the street before returning to the semi-detached house in Old Basford, Nottingham, to be confronted by Juett.
Applying for bail for Roberts, who is also charged with wounding the younger raider with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, Raj Chand, defending, said: ‘This must have been a dreadful situation for any law-abiding member of the public.
‘Someone said to me earlier that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I said that he was in the right place at the right time. An Englishman’s home is his castle.
‘He says he was in the right. He regrets what happened, but he was defending himself and his property.’
District Judge John Stobart initially said he would take the ‘rare decision’ to grant bail because of Roberts’s flawless record of reporting to police.
But he agreed to remand him in custody at least until today after the prosecution said it wanted to appeal against the decision. Roberts, who did not enter any pleas, is scheduled to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on November 10.
His address was listed in court as his mother’s house, although it is understood he did not live there at the time of the incident.
Before the hearing, CPS lawyer Ian Cunningham said: ‘I have decided that when Omari Roberts disturbed two burglars and caused injuries to them - in one case fatally - his actions were not reasonable.
‘I have looked very carefully at the public interest in this case, and I am satisfied that it requires a prosecution.
‘I also discussed the case with the CPS principal legal adviser and have decided there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction.’
Mr Cunningham said legal guidelines made clear that anyone using ‘reasonable force’ to defend themselves would enjoy the full protection of the law.
He added: ‘The law also makes clear that people could be prosecuted if they act with excessive and gratuitous force.’
Nottinghamshire Police said the 14-year-old admitted burglary at youth court in May and was sentenced to two years’ detention.
This is the idiot scum sucking would be burglar filth that happily croaked. One can only hope that his end was very painful. Types like this deserve no less. As I looked at this totally revolting photo, I couldn’t help but think, anything that looks like this shouldn’t be allowed to breathe anyway. He’s gone for good. Hip-hip hooray. Well done and kudos for the prosecution victim.
SCRATCH ONE GREMLIN ...
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 27, 2009
England: Cultural Death, By Design
A bombshell article by Melanie Phillips. England is white, therefore guilty of everything, and must be destroyed by PC and Diversity. And that’s exactly what the Labour Party has been doing. By Plan.
The outrageous truth slips out: Labour cynically plotted to transform the entire make-up of Britain without telling us
By Melanie PhillipsSo now the cat is well and truly out of the bag. For years, as the number of immigrants to Britain shot up apparently uncontrollably, the question was how exactly this had happened.
Was it through a fit of absent-mindedness or gross incompetence? Or was it not inadvertent at all, but deliberate?
The latter explanation seemed just too outrageous. After all, a deliberate policy of mass immigration would have amounted to nothing less than an attempt to change the very make-up of this country without telling the electorate.
There could not have been a more grave abuse of the entire democratic process. Now, however, we learn that this is exactly what did happen. The Labour government has been engaged upon a deliberate and secret policy of national cultural sabotage.
This astonishing revelation surfaced quite casually last weekend in a newspaper article by one Andrew Neather. He turns out to have been a speech writer for Tony Blair, Jack Straw and David Blunkett.
And it was he who wrote a landmark speech in September 2000 by the then immigration minister, Barbara Roche, that called for a loosening of immigration controls. But the true scope and purpose of this new policy was actively concealed.
In its 1997 election manifesto, Labour promised ‘firm control over immigration’ and in 2005 it promised a ‘crackdown on abuse’. In 2001, its manifesto merely said that the immigration rules needed to reflect changes to the economy to meet skills shortages.
But all this concealed a monumental shift of policy. For Neather wrote that until ‘at least February last year’, when a new points-based system was introduced to limit foreign workers in response to increasing uproar, the purpose of the policy Roche ushered in was to open up the UK to mass immigration.
This has been achieved. Some 2.3million migrants have been added to the population since 2001. Since 1997, the number of work permits has quadrupled to 120,000 a year.
Unless policies change, over the next 25 years some seven million more will be added to Britain’s population, a rate of growth three times as fast as took place in the Eighties.
Such an increase is simply unsustainable. Britain is already one of the most overcrowded countries in Europe. But now look at the real reason why this policy was introduced, and in secret. The Government’s ‘driving political purpose’, wrote Neather, was ‘to make the UK truly multicultural’.
It was therefore a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country. It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language and traditions.
It was done to destroy for ever what it means to be culturally British and to put another ‘multicultural’ identity in its place. And it was done without telling or asking the British people whether they wanted their country and their culture to be transformed in this way.
Spitefully, one motivation by Labour ministers was ‘to rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date’.
And this admission STILL WON’T BE ENOUGH to get the lazy masses off their asses.
Can you say One World Government Commie Plot, boys and girls? That’s what this boils down to. The deliberate eradication of an entire national culture. It’s more than mere treason. It’s a kind of murder.
And the opinions put up at that post show that quite a number of folks support such a plan of action. It’s Revenge Time!
comment from the left:
England has stolen untold riches from the rest of the world. Since those riches can’t be reclaimed by their rightful owners, it’s only just to allow people from all the countries robbed by England to now settle in England. Think of it in personal terms. What you Brits have done over the last several centuries amounts to my being robbed of my possessions every day. Whether you approve or disapprove of immigration means nothing. Within this century, the UK will become quite a different place, and any attempt to imposed limits on immigrants will be attacked as racist and could result in serious disturbances. If you’re an ordinary person, just accept that your role in England’s future will be greatly diminished, and eventually this entire island will be repopulated with a more diverse collection of ethnic groups.
- tom, new york,us, 26/10/2009 13:49
One or two voices can see the big picture. Or what we could call “Coming soon to a theater near you!”
comment from the right:
This is what the Obama administration is trying to do to the U.S. now in its deliberate attempt to “fundamentally change the United States” as candidate Obama had promised. People didn’t realize that he actually meant to change the country completely into something different than the founders intended--It is all part of the left’s attempt to create a one world government where there is no individual sovreignty, no freedom, but instead a giant, massive socialist tyranny.
- JanineC, San Jose CA USA, 26/10/2009 1:10
Meanwhile, France ... you remember fwance, right? Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys and all that? Um, maybe, maybe not. They’ve apparently had enough of their “disaffected youths” and are starting up a campaign of nationalism. To fight against islamicism! Vive Le France!! SOURCE. It’s about bloody time.
France is to adopt a series of measures to ‘reaffirm pride’ in the country and combat Islamic fundamentalism.
They include everybody receiving lessons in the nation’s Christian history and children singing the national anthem.
Using words which infuriated ethnic minority groups and Socialist opponents, immigration minister Eric Besson also said he wanted ‘foreigners to speak better French’.
He called for all recent arrivals to be monitored by ‘Republican godfathers’, charged with helping immigrants to integrate better.
His proposed measures contrast sharply with the situation in Britain where ‘citizenship education’ centres on multicultural diversity.
M Besson, who was born in the former French protectorate of Morocco, suggested a debate on national identity’ entitled ‘What does it mean to be French?’
He also reignited the debate about face and body-covering Muslim veils, saying they should definitely be banned.
As well as providing civic lessons for adults - including classes about the country’s Christian history and liberal political institutions - the government will encourage school children to sing the national anthem at least once a year.
His proposed measures contrast sharply with the situation in Britain where ‘citizenship education’ centers on multicultural diversity and the European Union, while ‘God Save The Queen’ is not even taught in schools.
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Permalink • No Rockets Today
Try again tomorrow, perhaps the day after that if necessary.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A series of delays led NASA to postpone the launch of its new Ares 1-X rocket by 24 hours.
Clouds, snagged tethers and even a misdirected cargo ship within the danger area in the Atlantic Ocean contributed to delays in the launch of the Ares 1-X, a trial version of the rocket NASA hopes will ferry astronauts to low-Earth orbit aboard an Orion spacecraft.
Launch Control reported that severe winds, with gusts over 20 knots and peaking at 22 knots, were a key factor that preventing the rocket launch.
According to Launch Control, the weather tomorrow should be somewhat better than today, with decreased cloudiness and lower winds, both on the launch pad and in the upper levels. NASA set the likelihood of launch tomorrow at 40 percent.
So we wait another day. Tune into your TV news in the morning, or go online, either to NASA’s site here or to one of the UStream sites like this one here. NASA is looking for an 8am shot:
RELEASE : 09-251
NASA’s Ares I-X Launch Rescheduled for Wednesday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA mission managers canceled Tuesday’s scheduled launch of the Ares I-X flight test because of weather concerns at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Another launch attempt is targeted for Wednesday. A four-hour launch window opens at 8 a.m. EDT.
The launch was delayed for 24 hours because of winds at the launch pad that exceeded the 20-knot limit and concerns about clouds with moisture that could have caused static build-up on the rocket and led to communication issues. Forecasters predict a 60 percent chance of favorable weather Wednesday.
The Ares I-X is part of a larger flight test program that will provide data for future launch vehicles and give NASA an opportunity to test and prove hardware, facilities and ground operations.
For information about Ares I-X, visit:
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Date: Oct. 28
Mission: Ares I-X Flight Test
Launch Vehicle: Ares I-X
Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39B
Launch Time: 8 a.m. EDT
Description: The Ares I-X flight test is NASA’s first test for the Agency’s new Constellation launch vehicle—Ares I. The Ares I-X flight will provide NASA with an early opportunity to test and prove flight characteristics, hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with the Ares I.
Live coverage begins at 5am EDT for you early risers.
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IF GIVEN THE CHANCE I’LL KILL AGAIN. IT’S FUN. GOOD BOY. WE’LL CUT YOUR JAIL TIME NOW.
Ha-freeken-ha. Some joke except it isn’t. This is another one of those articles that wasn’t on my radar till a minute ago.
Here come de idiot fuckin judge.
The judge said it was wrong not to give McNally the chance of being freed if, at some point in the future, his mental state stabilises to the extent that the authorities no longer consider him a danger to society.
Fine. Then when the bastard is released, I want him housed NOT with idiot judge. Oh no. I’d like to see him housed with a member of the idiot judge’s family. With no restrictions.
Never mind he has killed twice and says he enjoys it. No way I’d trust shrinks who will I just know, one day make the claim that now he’s cured.
Folks like this fellow need to be rounded up and immediately put down for the sake of community safety. These ppl (term used loosely) are never cured and I don’t care what shrinks say. They are smart enough however to know how to play the system. They know what authorities want to hear.
Here, read it yourself. Crazy. Just freeken crazy! The system, not the criminal. THE LAW IS AN ASS.
Jailed Satanist who murdered cellmate for kicks has life sentence cut to give him ‘light at the end of the tunnel’
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:59 PM on 26th October 2009Psychopathic: Double murderer Clement McNally described killing his prison cellmate as ‘better than sex’
A psychopathic Satanist jailed for life without parole after he strangled his cellmate while serving a prison term for another murder, has had his sentence cut to 20 years ‘to give him light at the end of the tunnel’.Clement McNally throttled father-of-one Anthony Hesketh with a T-shirt in September 2003 because he was Satan’s ‘hands and eyes’.
Hesketh, who was serving four months for driving while disqualified, was found dead on the floor of the cell he shared with McNally in Manchester’s Strangeways prison.
McNally, 34, claimed to worship the devil and decorated his cell with satanic symbols.
He was also diagnosed as ‘psychopathic, narcissistic, paranoid and obsessive-compulsive’.The killer was already serving a mandatory life term for stabbing a friend to death outside a party in July, 2002, when Hesketh was allocated to his cell.
He was given a life term, with a whole life tariff, for the second killing after pleading guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility at Manchester Crown Court on July 12, 2004.
But now the minimum term has been slashed to 20 years by Lord Justice Hughes, sitting at London’s Criminal Appeal Court.
The judge said it was not right that McNally should be denied a light at the end of the tunnel and never have a chance of release.
McNally, who was prescribed anti-depressants and mood-stabilisers, had told a psychiatrist after being jailed for Mr Skelly’s murder that he had worshipped the devil for two years.He also claimed prison chiefs allowed him to read books on the occult, some of which came from the prison library.
Nevertheless petty criminal, Mr Hesketh, of Worsley, Greater Manchester, was locked up with him and met his death.
Lord Justice Hughes, sitting with Mr Justice MacKay and Mr Justice Davis, said of Mr Hesketh’s killing: ‘McNally had no particular grievance against his victim - he simply suffered an urge to kill him.‘He said it was exciting - better than sex. He said Satan told him to do things and it was his job to do as he was told.
‘He said he was not in the least bit sorry for what he had done, but had derived a great deal of pleasure from subsequently thinking about it.
‘He suffers from compulsive homicidal urges and poses an exceptional risk to other prisoners.
‘He made it perfectly clear that he would kill again if the opportunity arose and the urge to kill was of sufficient intensity.’However the judge said it was wrong not to give McNally the chance of being freed if, at some point in the future, his mental state stabilises to the extent that the authorities no longer consider him a danger to society.
He told the court: ‘The life sentence was plainly correct as he was likely to represent a danger of the gravest kind, for a period which could not be determined.
‘However the imposition of a whole life tariff was a mistaken application of the process of sentencing.‘The life sentence itself is designed to cater for a prisoner in whom it cannot be seen when, or if ever, they will cease to be a danger to the public.
‘The Parole Board will not release a prisoner under a life sentence until it is convinced that they no longer pose a danger to the public.
‘The minimum term should be set on the basis of the severity of what the offender has done and his level of culpability for it.
‘If this man never ceases to be a danger, he will never be released.
‘But what cannot be known is whether his condition will change in the future.
‘Accordingly, we set aside the order, declining to set a minimum term, and the question of his dangerousness now and in the future is reserved to the Parole Board.‘His culpability was plainly reduced because he was in the mentally abnormal condition that he was, but the circumstances and gravity of the acts were considerable.
‘It was a second homicide within about 15 months. It was a pointless killing, generated simply to satisfy an internal impulse.
‘The appropriate course now is to set a minimum term which takes account of both the murder and manslaughter offences. We arrive at a minimum term of 20 years.‘However, the plainest evidence of the absence of a risk would be needed before any consideration could be given to his release.
‘It may very well be that there is never sufficient evidence of an absence of danger, but those decisions lie in the future and, to that extent, this appeal is allowed,’ the judge concluded.
An inquest into Mr Hesketh’s killing heard that McNally turned his back on the Devil 18 months after the murder, but denied fabricating his Satanism.
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Permalink • Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May.
Well, yet again I have to H/T LyndonB but this time there’s more. Got my eyes opened WIDE on a subject that frankly I had given no thought to.
I don’t recall exactly what I wrote to Lyndon but his reply was this:
The US may be down (with an ass clown at the helm) but it is not out. It is still a superpower. Not just militarily but in terms of agriculture. Years ago I worked on Mississippi river barges which came up to Iowa empty and went back down to New Orleans full of soy beans and maize. Unless you have seen this first hand the sheer scale of this industry it is hard to get across. We loaded up barges with maize. Each of them were 200’ long and we then moved them out to the line boats which took them on to the gulf fifteen at a time. I therefore found this article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard very interesting. The arabs and Chinese think they have the US by the balls. One through oil dependancy, the other through their dollar holdings. When I worked on the river one of the owners of the company once remarked that hunger was the most important factor to consider, because at the end of the day you can’t eat gold or drink oil. Something I feel a few of these piss pots would do well to remember.
And the link he provided me was the following which I found quite surprising not just for the info. What surprised me lots was the fact that I found it so interesting. It isn’t a subject to set the blood rushing lets face it. Like the rolling movements of the Qs on NASDAQ. But darn if I wasn’t glued to every line. I had no idea.
Thanks L.
Food will never be so cheap again
Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop.
By Ambrose Evans-PritchardThe world’s grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since 2000, despite two bumper harvests in North America. China’s inventories are at a 30-year low. Asian rice stocks are near danger level.
Yet farm commodities have largely missed out on Bernanke’s reflation rally in metals, oil, and everything else. Dylan Grice from Société Générale sees “bargain basement” prices.Wheat has crashed 70pc from early 2008. Corn has halved. The “Ags” have mostly drifted sideways over the last six months. This divergence within the commodity family is untenable, given the bio-ethanol linkage to oil.
For investors wishing to rotate out of overstretched rallies – Wall Street’s Transport index and the Russell 2000 broke down last week – this is a rare chance to buy cheap into a story that will dominate the rest of our lives.Barack Obama has not reversed the Bush policy on biofuels, despite food riots in a string of poor countries last year and calls for a moratorium. The subsidy of 45 cents per gallon remains.
The motive is strategic. America is weaning itself off imported energy at breakneck speed. It will not again be held hostage by oil demagogues, or humiliated by states that cannot feed themselves. Those Beijing students who laughed at US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner may not enjoy the last laugh. The US is the agricultural superpower. Foes will discover why that matters.The world population is adding “another Britain” every year. This will continue until mid-century. By then we will have an extra 2.4bn mouths to feed.
China and Southeast Asia are switching to animal-protein diets as they grow wealthy, as the Koreans did before them. It takes roughly 3-5kgs of animal feed from grains to produce 1kg of meat.A report by Standard Chartered, The End of Cheap Food, said North Africa and the Middle East have already hit the buffers. The region imports 71pc of its rice and 58pc of its corn. It lacks water to boost output. The population is growing fast. It will have to import, and cross fingers.
The UN says global farm yields must rise 77pc, which means redoubling Norman Borlaug’s “green revolution”. It will not be easy. China’s trend growth in crops yields has slipped from 3.1pc a year in the early 1960s to 0.9pc over the last decade.“We’ve all heard the stark anecdotes: precious topsoil weakened by over-farming, dust clouds darkening the Asian skies, parched land becoming desert and rivers running dry,” said Mr Grice.
Since 2000, China has lost nearly 1,400 square miles each year to desert. Urban sprawl is paving over fertile land in the East. Water supply from Himalayan glaciers is ebbing. The Yellow River has been reduced to “an agonising trickle”. It no longer reaches the sea for 200 days a year.Farmers are draining the aquifers. Environmentalist Ma Jun says in China’s Water Crisis that they are drilling as deep as 1,000 metres into non-replenishable reserves. The grain region of the Hai River Basin relies on groundwater for 70pc of irrigation.
China’s water troubles are not unique. North India lives off Himalayan snows as well. Nor can we take fertiliser supply for granted any longer since “peak phosphates” threatens.
One can be Malthusian about this. Grizzled commodity guru Jim Rogers certainly is. “The world is going to have a period when we cannot get food at any price, in some parts.” He advises youth to opt for a farm degree rather than an MBA, if they want to make serious money.
Mr Grice remains an optimist, believing that human ingenuity will rescue us. You can trade the “Ag” rally by investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), but this amounts to speculation on food. There are ancient taboos against this practice.
Or you can invest in the bio-tech, fertiliser, and land services companies that will both make money and help to solve the problem. Monsanto, Syngenta, and Potash are popular, but trade at high price to book values. Golden Agri-Resources, Yara, Agrium, and Bunge are at better multiples.
Kingsmill Bond at Moscow’s Troika Dialog suggests the Baltic company Trigon Agri as a way to play the catch-up story in the Eurasian steppe. He likes sunflower processor Kernel, grain group Razgulay, and fertiliser firm Uralkali.
Strictly speaking, the world has enough land to feed everybody. The Soviet Union farmed 240m hectares in Khrushchev’s era. The same territory now farms 207m hectares. Troika says crop yields could be doubled in Russia, and tripled in the Ukraine using modern know-how. Africa’s farms could come alive with land registers, allowing villagers to use property as collateral for credit.
None of this can be done with a flick of the fingers. What seems certain is that the terms of trade between country and city will revert to the norms of the Middle Ages. Landowners will be barons again.
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Curtis and Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily News Newspaper in Starkville, MS, and bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
The next morning the farmer drove up and said, “Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night..”
Curtis & Leroy replied, “Well, then just give us our money back.”
The farmer said, “Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.”
The farmer asked, “What in the world y’all gonna do with a dead mule?”
Curtis said, “We gonna raffle him off.”
The farmer said, “You can’t raffle off a dead mule!”
Leroy said, “We shore can! Heck, we don’t hafta tell nobody he’s dead!”
A couple of weeks later, the farmer ran into Curtis and Leroy at the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and asked, “What’d you fellers ever do with that dead mule?”
They said,"We raffled him off like we said we wuz gonna do.”
Leroy said, “Shucks, we sold 500 tickets fer two dollars apiece and made a profit of $898.”
The farmer said, “My Lord, didn’t anyone complain?”
Curtis said, “Well, the feller who won got upset. So we gave him his two dollars back.”
Curtis and Leroy now work for the government. They’re overseeing the Bailout Program.
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Permalink • Sunday - October 25, 2009
Sunday, my day of NOT rest
Morning cleaning job done. Minor repair in their bathroom, 10 minutes, one screw, no charge.
Grabbing a quick bite, then off to the afternoon cleaning job. Which will include more priming and painting in their bathroom, hanging another vent fan in the production area, and now ... I have to replace a shelf on one of the benches. With something that won’t rot or rust, but can still support the 80lb weight of the edger slop bucket. So I’m thinking pressure treated 2x6s or some 3/4” exterior plywood. Probably need some sturdy U-channel to support it with. Nuts and bolts. Looks like several hours of project. Maybe a sheet of Melanine to cover it with? Whatever I put in has to be “milspec plus” because the crew in that shop is brutal. They don’t treat anything with care or respect. Bunch a animals.
I have to start charging this guy for the time it takes me to figure out solutions and shop for the parts. Just billing him for parts purchased and the labor to put them in isn’t covering my effort.
So it looks like I’ll be down there for the better part of 8 hours instead of the 2 it usually takes me to spruce the place up.
And I WILL be delivering a bill tomorrow. I can’t front this guy hundreds of dollars worth of stuff. He will pay me, no problem. I just haven’t written up a bill yet since everything is in the works.
Otay, I’m off. Back to the grindstone.
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Permalink • DUMB JUST GOT EVEN DUMBER …. sighs, there’s no hope.
Been reading the Sunday papers all day, it a bit past 4pm and I haven’t even got to the magazines yet for the book reviews.
So anyway here I am reading all this stuff and while there’s quite a bit and some of it interesting mostly to Brits, I stumbled upon this bit of nonsense.
I’ve pointed to stories like this in the past where the PC Commissars for language and its new use make these stupid 
changes. Sure they’re off the rails and we get a laugh out of some of it. But good grief why oh why can’t these folks see exactly how dumb what they want appears? I guess if they were smarter they’d see it. However, sadly for them they just have to be left wing libtards cos who else would dream this hash up.
“confusion among those from different cultural backgrounds”
Maybe if they tried to integrate as our grandparents did, they’d get themselves un-confused. And I bet they aren’t confused at all. Only the silly mostly white lefties who are confused and offended on behalf of other people who didn’t realize until told, that they were offended and confused.
Bah!
Here, take a look at this.
Police have been urged to avoid using greetings such as “evening” and “afternoon”, because the words are “somewhat subjective” and could cause confusion among those from different cultural backgrounds.
By Jasper Copping
The official guidance means the salutation “evenin’ all”, which marked the start of each episode of Dixon of Dock Green, (a tv show) could be under threat.The instructions form part of lengthy guidelines issued by police forces and fire services across the UK on what language their staff should use. Critics have accused the guides of “lacking common sense”.
Other words now discouraged include, “businessman", “housewives” and “child”, which the organisations argue have negative connotations and could cause offence.
Confusingly, staff are also barred from using the word “homosexual", for which they are instructed to use the term “gay”, while they are warned against using the phrase “straight”, and told to say “heterosexual”.
The instructions have emerged in response to a Freedom of Information request to police forces and fire services about the guidance they give their staff on their use of language. One force urging caution over the use of “evening”, is Warwickshire Police.
Under a section entitled “Communication, Some Do’s & Don’ts”, in its “Policing Our Communities” handbook, it gives advice to officers on communicating with people from different ethnic groups. It states: “Don’t assume those words for the time of day, such as afternoon or evening have the same meaning.”
A spokesman added: “Terms such as ‘afternoon’ and ‘evening’ are somewhat subjective in meaning and can vary according to a person’s culture or nationality. In many cultures the term evening is linked to time of day when people have their main meal of the day.
“In some countries including the UK, the evening meal time is traditionally thought of as being around 5-7pm but this might be different say for a family say from America who might have their main meal earlier and thus for them ‘evening ‘ may be an earlier time.
“The point is there is an element of subjectivity leading to a variation between cultures that we need to be aware of – taking steps as far as possible to ensure our communication is effective in serving the public.”
A number of organisations, among them Essex Police and Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, now instruct staff to avoid the phrases “child, youth or youngster”.
The 52-page guide used by both organisations states that such phrases could have “connotations of inexperience, impetuosity, and unreliability or even dishonesty”. It also states that addressing someone as “boy” or “girl” “may cause offence”. Instead, officers and firemen are instructed to use the phrase “young people”.
The same guide also warns against the phrases “manning the phones”, “layman’s terms” and “the tax man”, for “making women invisible”.
The Metropolitan Police warns its staff about “common errors” to watch out for in their language. It says “homosexual” should be avoided and “gay” used, but that “straight” should not be used and “heterosexual” should. “Homosexual” should only be used in connection with legislation, according to the force.
London Fire Brigade instructs its staff not to use the terms “businessmen” or “housewives”, because it says they “reinforce outdated stereotypes”.
For the same reason, it tells workers not to call themselves “firemen” – they are “firefighters”. Other organizations have discouraged using the terms “postmen” and “binmen”.
Marie Clair, spokeswoman for the Plain English Campaign, said: “I have never heard of anyone being confused as to what part of the day it is. When the police need absolute accuracy over when something happened, then I am sure they use the exact time. There comes a point when common sense must prevail.”
She also criticised the decision to avoid phrases like “child” and “youth”. “Do you call a two-year-old a young person? Surely we can get greater accuracy in the language we already use, which is non-offensive,” she added.
There comes a point when common sense must prevail.”
Not in this country. Not anymore. And if you think this is pretty stupid and I’m sure you do unless you belong to Labour, I’m digging for something just as stupid if not more so of a recent Health and Safety rule. The folks who do these things simply do not have enough real, honest work to do.
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Permalink • A barber’s shop pole has been seized as a health and safety risk. Moonbats on the march!
No surprise in a country where (least where I live) a barber can’t use traditional razors due to, elf ‘n’ safety. Fact is, I haven’t even seen a safety razor in use here. So this doesn’t come as any surprise.
No problems after 19 years but the council figures there will be a problem. Tell ya what. After this I believe there could be. If they relent and allow the barber in this story to re-install his pole, how long might it be before someone suddenly had, oops. An accident. And sued. Naturally.
HEALTH and SAFETY’S CHOP FOR THE BARBER’S POLE DEEMED ‘UNSTABLE.’
By Mail On Sunday Reporter
Last updated at 1:16 AM on 25th October 2009A barber’s shop pole has been seized as a health and safety risk – even though no one has ever complained about it.
Wigan council officers said it was their duty to remove the freestanding red-and-white sign in case pedestrians tripped over it.
But shop owner Rob Grice, 38, said the move was unjustified.
‘Nobody has tripped over the pole in the 19 years I’ve owned the shop,’ he said.
‘There are bins and lampposts along the street but they are not considered safety hazards.
‘The pole let our customers know when we were open and now it has been taken away. Health Secretary Andy Burnham is our MP and he’s always banging on about promoting local businesses. But how can you do that if your customers can’t see if you’re open?’
One regular said: ‘Has the council nothing better to do? Everyone thinks this is ridiculous. The pole doesn’t pose any danger.’
Last night town hall chiefs defended their decision to remove the pole: ‘We work closely with access groups and it is our duty to look after the interests of people in wheelchairs and with white sticks,’ said a spokesman.
‘Objects like these are not as stable as fixed street signs and we are being encouraged by Government to be much more proactive over things like this.
‘The sign was noticed by inspectors. The shop is in a narrow street. It was an accident waiting to happen. The proprietor was issued with a warning but he failed to respond so we were obliged to take it off him. He is entitled to have it back if he pays the council £100.’
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