Did you know that there are 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain and that in London, there is one camera for every 8 members of the population?
Unbelievable
Oxford graduate Sandra Gregory, now 44 years old, was arrested in Thailand in 1993 for smuggling heroin and sentenced to death. The sentence commuted to 25 years in prison after she admitted the offence and was confined in the notorious Klong Prem Prison for four and a half years before being transferred to a prison in Kent. In 2000, she …
Cosmetic surgery can kill
Former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano, has died as a result of cosmetic surgery on her buttocks.
The Phone Box Experiment
Here’s something a bit different, and a bit of fun. Rob, known as ‘wilderness man’, is camping next to a phone box in the middle of nowhere in the Serrania de Ronda and answering any calls that come in…and there are a lot now. A ‘live’ webcam is going the whole time and the experiment sees Rob trying to last …
Startling discovery
The so-called Health and Safety brigade in the UK have, after two years of study costing in the region of £250,000, actually discovered a hitherto unknown danger to families, particularly children and teenagers. How this glaring danger has escaped everyone’s attention is baffling, but it has. It could, just possibly, be due to the fact that there has never, to …
Democracy still rules in Switzerland
Ignoring the advice of their Government, the Swiss people have voted in favour of a ban on the building of minarets in the country in a referendum held on Sunday. Around 57% of voters said ‘no’ to minarets, many fearing that allowing minarets would represent the growth of an ideology and a legal system, Sharia law, which are incompatible with …
The Tiger is OK
Consternation yesterday as early reports suggested golfer Tiger Woods had been seriously injured following a car accident as he left the driveway of his home in Windermere, Florida. He had apparently hit a fire hydrant and then a tree. Luckily, the early reports turned out to be less than accurate and Woods, after treatment for a few cuts and bruises, …
Gas alert down under
A great little story from down under as 15 firemen and two fire engines rushed to a farm in Axedale, Victoria, to investigate a report of a gas leak. Most of the farms used bottled gas and leaks could be very dangerous. However, arriving at the farm, the firefighters could both smell and see the cause of the problem, a 120 …
Quite a shock
An American man, now 41 years old, was given up for adoption at birth. At the age of ten years, Matthew Roberts found out that he was adopted, but did nothing about it. At the age of 29 years, he began to search for his biological parents, a task made a little easier since the advent of the internet. Researching …
Couldn’t possibly be true, could it?
According to an article in the Daily Mail: An ITV newsreader is launching a legal action against the broadcaster for up to £5million over claims she was the victim of racist discrimination. Apparently: She is understood to have claimed that one colleague mimicked former News At Ten anchor Sir Trevor McDonald. Either there has to be more to the story …