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Posted on October 23, 2008
Internet relatedDid the piano teacher, who has really been arrested, 'murder' her husband by strangling him with a piano wire? No, she deleted his not real life on-line digital persona.And, Del Boy's been at it again...A man is being threatened with a libel action after posting critical comments on the internet about an eBay user who sold him a mobile phoneIn my view, it was fair comment...

Pervez death sentence quashed by Afghan court

Posted on October 22, 2008
Pervez death sentence quashed by Afghan courtA Kabul appeals court has quashed a death sentence imposed on the Afghan student Sayed Pervez Kambaksh for downloading information from the internet on women's rights.The judges ruled however, that the 24-year-old trainee journalist should serve 20 years in jail ? a decision Mr Kambaksh's lawyers insisted was unconstitutional and should be overturned by the country's supreme court...

Blogging plant posts daily news on its mood

Posted on October 22, 2008
Blogging plant posts daily news on its mood Revealed. The author of Iain Dale's Diary is actually a Japanese plant in a plant pot.A potted plant that posts daily news on its mood and health is believed to be the world's first botanical blogger.

Thousands more ex-frontline soldiers in the criminal justice system than previously believed

Posted on October 22, 2008
Thousands more ex-frontline soldiers in the criminal justice system than previously believedThe number of former soldiers who have been convicted of a crime after returning from the frontline is 4,000 higher than previously thought, it was claimed yesterday...

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Should we want to cure autism?

Posted on October 22, 2008
Should we want to cure autism?Two American grandparents are raising the global profile of the condition starting with a controversial debate in London tonight. Cassandra Jardine reports."Autism might have kept a low profile in the United States, if it hadn't affected Bob Wright's grandson, Christian...

More Effing Madness from local councils

Posted on October 22, 2008
More Effing Madness from local councilsWoman, 80, warned she faces prosecution for feeding birds in her gardenDon't you just wish sometimes that nosy neighbours would just mind their own business, and that councils would busy themselves with important issues rather than try to make peoples lives a misery?

Don't strain yourself dipping into the till

Posted on October 22, 2008
Don't strain yourself dipping into the tillAndrew Pilfering MPHat-Tip to Bob Piper

Sitemeter and spam

Posted on October 22, 2008
Sitemeter and spamFor technical reasons I am unable to publish the screengrab. However, as you can clearly see from the list of visits to my blog all bar the last has my blog URL as the address. Therefore what is the last one doing there and who has allowed it to encroach upon my blog? sitemeter statistics | manager | logout Oct 23 200800: 15: 19AMGMT: 1:00Oct 22 200823: 46: 05PMGMT: 1:00 home generalSummaryWho's On?Traffic Prediction recent visitorsBy DetailsBy ReferralsBy World MapBy LocationBy Out ClicksBy Entry PagesBy Exit Pages visitsCurrent Day Previous 7 DaysPrevious 30 DaysPrevious 12 Months visits and page viewsCurrent DayPrevious 7 DaysPrevious 30 DaysPrevious 12 Months page rankingEntry PagesExit Pages support+serviceKnowledgeCenterSubmit Support RequestUpgrade Account Jailhouselawyers BlogEntry Pages Ranked by Visits Entry Page 1 http://prisonersvoice...

Jailhouselawyer beats the Daily Telegraph to number one on Google

Posted on October 22, 2008
Jailhouselawyer beats the Daily Telegraph to number one on GoogleLink.The difference between has and could have?Update: I couldn't help but notice that the so-called number one political blogger Iain Dale only managed to reach number 8 in the list (according to Total Politics only the first 7 count for anything).

Is there a link between the rise of Islamists in the penal system and the proposed Titan Prisons?

Posted on October 22, 2008
Is there a link between the rise of Islamists in the penal system and the proposed Titan Prisons?UK prison officers are ill-equipped to deal with the growing threat of Muslim terrorists and those converting to Islam whilst in prison. Briefly, it has reopened the Concentration versus Dispersal debate...

Happy 10th birthday to the Human Rights Act (1998)

Posted on October 22, 2008
Happy 10th birthday to the Human Rights Act (1998) Jack Straw has given a speech to mark the 10th anniversary of the Human Rights Act at the Annual Human Rights Law Conference.[Check against delivery: this is the prepared text of the speech, and may differ from the delivered version...

Terrorist Recruitment in American Correctional Institutions

Posted on October 22, 2008
Terrorist Recruitment in American Correctional InstitutionsLink.Related contentTerrorists in prison

The elephant in the room

Posted on October 22, 2008
The elephant in the roomMoody Blues - Go Now

Is Mohamed Al Fayed a paedophile?

Posted on October 22, 2008
Is Mohamed Al Fayed a paedophile?Mohamed Fayed was interviewed under caution by police today in connection with an allegation of sexual assault against a girl under 16, sources said.

George Osborne has committed a crime

Posted on October 22, 2008
George Osborne has committed a crimeDenis MacShane, the Labour MP, told the BBC: "We passed a law in the year 2000 which says, and I read, "a person commits an offence" and as I say he's committed a crime, "if he does any act likely to facilitate the making of a donation to a registered party by any person other than a permissible donor" and this Russian gentleman is not a permissible donor...

The Guantanamo farce continues

Posted on October 21, 2008
The Guantanamo farce continuesThe US government has been accused of "farce" by the lawyer of the last UK resident held at Guantanamo Bay.Clive Stafford Smith says all charges have been dropped against Binyam Mohamed, who was accused of terrorism.However, he says Mr Mohamed, 30, who lived in west London, is set to be charged again within the next month, with new military prosecutors involved...

Prison's drugs 'feeding violence'

Posted on October 21, 2008
Prison's drugs 'feeding violence'The drugs problem at London's Brixton prison is so bad it is undermining treatment programmes and feeding violence, the jail watchdog has warned.One thing is for sure, Paul Boateng can no longer be accused of adding to the problem by the supplying of drugs to some of Brixton's inmates...

Mouldy old dough

Posted on October 21, 2008
Mouldy old doughI got caught out with this last year with a packet of peanuts from Tesco and the use by date expired in November."In Glasgow, a pack of six Classics for Christmas mince pies had a best before date of November 17".I don't accept the M&S explanation that people like to buy and eat these in the run up to Christmas...

Lockerbie bomber battling 'advanced' cancer

Posted on October 21, 2008
Lockerbie bomber battling 'advanced' cancerAbdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi was diagnosed with prostate cancer after hospital tests last month and the disease has spread to other parts of his body, solicitor Tony Kelly said.The former Libyan intelligence agent, 56, is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 which led to the deaths of 270 people.

Court Jester

Posted on October 21, 2008
Court JesterWoman, 89, arrested for keeping ball kicked into her garden An elderly woman has been arrested for petty theft in America after she allegedly refused to give back a ball that a child had kicked into her garden.It's nice to see that it is not just this country where madness prevails with the authorities...

Glasshouse gases

Posted on October 21, 2008
Glasshouse gasesOsborne denies seeking donation from oligarchWind. He could have at least said "What yacht?"Cow burps are making a growing contribution to global warmingGreenhouse gases produced by cow burps are growing at a faster rate than the man-made emissions responsible for global warming, according to the latest research.

Good point

Posted on October 20, 2008
Good point

Lazy bastards MPs

Posted on October 20, 2008
Lazy bastards MPsHow come if they work for us, MPs only work for 30 weeks per year and grant themselves 22 weeks holidays?

Blog to highlight domestic abuse

Posted on October 20, 2008
Blog to highlight domestic abuseA blog has been created by an assembly member for women to write about their experiences of violence.Called Stories Behind the Stats aims to highlight the severity of the issue.

Too inexperienced judge gave 72 year old cancer sufferer prison term

Posted on October 20, 2008
Too inexperienced judge gave 72 year old cancer sufferer prison termRecorder Lesley Anderson QC has no experience of criminal matters, and yet she was allowed to sit in judgment over a criminal trial and cocked it up.A glance at Recorder Lesley Anderson QC's profile shows that in 2006 she took silk and became a recorder in the same year, therefore she gained no experience as a QC in criminal trials before becoming a judge...

Swimming with tigers

Posted on October 20, 2008
Swimming with tigersGiven that Hull City FC (The Tigers) are doing swimmingly at present...Traditionally, trainers have struggled to build an attachment with the largest of the big cats, Picture: BARCROFT MEDIABut The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, or TIGERS, near Miami, claims to have overcome the problem by encouraging both tigers and humans to swim together in a specially adapted pool, Picture: BARCROFT MEDIATigers are known as the best swimmers of all the big cats with modified webbing between their toes to make their feet more like flippers, Picture: BARCROFT MEDIATIGERS claim that the animals love to play in the water, Picture: BARCROFT MEDIAThe hand-reared tigers are introduced to the water a few months after birth and the trainers then give one-on-one tuition to each of the animals while they are in the water, Picture: BARCROFT MEDIAFilled with 100,00 gallons of water, one side of the TIGERS pool is made of glass, so the public can see the handlers and the animals up close swimming togetherPicture: BARCROFT MEDIADespite the apparent danger, the trainers are never at risk...

Iran arrests pigeons 'spying' on nuclear site

Posted on October 20, 2008
Iran arrests pigeons 'spying' on nuclear siteIranian security forces have arrested two suspected 'spy pigeons' near the Natanz nuclear facility. One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported...

Why the Commission on English Prisons Today is a waste of time and money

Posted on October 20, 2008
Why the Commission on English Prisons Today is a waste of time and moneyDavid Wilson states: "A visit to Norway shows a much more humane approach to crime, reflected in lower prison populations".How much did this visit cost and who paid the bill? Was it value for money or has someone ripped off someone or some organisation? I ask these questions simply because I discovered the same information, if not more, for nothing on the internet and it only took a few minutes of time...

Sleazy Tory Councillor receives £10k for 5 meetings

Posted on October 19, 2008
Sleazy Tory Councillor receives £10k for 5 meetingsA prospective parliamentary candidate at the centre of a row over council allowances in Cornwall has stood down.His resignation came amid reports he made more than £10,000 in allowances as a county councillor, despite attending only five meetings in the last year.

Double the money - That's Tesco price

Posted on October 19, 2008
Double the money - That's Tesco priceYesterday I bought 2lb of bacon from my local butcher for £5.46, and weighed it when I got home and it was just short of 1kg on the scale. This morning I popped into Tesco Express for some milk, and checked their price for bacon...

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