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I was one of the four people Linda stated who saw “The Weirdest Thing I Have Ever Seen” on the early hours of Saturday 3rd January 2009 - luckily our friend had her camera and managed to grab these shots of the Orange light.
To add yet more credence to our sighting, today, thanks to my [...]

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On our way to Otley via Coverdale the other day, we came across the slightly eery Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival. I thought they were real people until I realised that they weren’t moving!
Figures were propped up around the village in various poses - predominantly drinking. Maypole dancers, gardeners and even Mr Grumpy were present. My particular [...]

William Hague has been making waves in the news in his position as Shadow Foreign Secretary for the Conservatives. With a victory for the Tories in the next election looking ever more likely, Linda Haywood probed the views of the former party leader. Read the third in the set of serialised articles here:
Families are now [...]

After the failed attempt to bag the 10,000m and marathon together at the Athens Olympics in 2004, Paula Radcliffe is this year attempting to win the marathon gold only. Despite an stress fracture of the femur sustained earlier this year, Radcliffe is listed on the Great British Team.
The athletes are currently preparing in Macau [...]

Preparations for the coronation of George Tupou V have been marred by demonstrations and talk of revolution. Following the declaration of a republic in Nepal and the request by the British Queen for more money from her subjects, Tonga’s wrestle with democracy is part of a growing question over the rationale for feudalism. The Tongan [...]

That’s what the Queen has asked the government for this week. Most people just hope to win the lottery, but the Queen doesn’t have to. She just asks the people of Britain to cough up, probably put it on their credit-crunched credit card, and carries on - as her family have done for the last [...]

Politicians have their reasons for turning a blind eye in some cases an screaming blue murder at others. But as this blog acts as a soapbox, I am going to list some anomalies in reporting and political emphasis in Britain:

Zimbabwe does not have free and fair elections
Bahrain has had two elections in 33 years and [...]

Parliamentary summer recess usually means one thing: rubbish news. Sport sometimes fills the gaps but politics around the world is wholeheartedly ignored whilst the summer sun distracts Fleet Street from hardcore hacking. Picnics, Chelsea Flower Show, Henley Royal Regatta and the like steal the eye of analysis from hot topics such as Zimbabwe and the [...]