Have you ever met anyone who boasted about their life – and you subsequently discovered they were trying to pull the wool over your eyes? We met a couple on holiday once…. she was ‘in fashion’...
An acquaintance has a daughter who has two children from two different fathers, neither of whom are now with the family. Both children are badly behaved, the elder having been suspended from school...
I’m looking for a basic machine that will just record from television to DVD. I don’t want fancy functions - just a recorder - but ‘unfancy’ seems hard to come by. Does anyone have any idea...
//Labour’s nationalisation plans will clobber 300,000 former workers from the coal and steel industries. The pension pots of mineworkers, staff at British Coal and British Steel include investments...
This made me sick to my stomach. A bird feeding its chick a cigarette butt. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48842178 I was listening to a radio discussion about waste. It seems that last...
With renovations to their home costing the tax payer £2.4M, and with their apparent quest for a life more private than that enjoyed by other prominent members of the royal family, are Meghan and...
//Jeremy Corbyn has called for an inquiry after a newspaper reported two civil servants had said he was "too frail" to lead Labour or become PM.....The article in the Times - published on Saturday -...
Lies, spin and double-speak seem to be the order of the day in more than one area of life, and moreover that dishonesty appears to be not only accepted, but welcomed, encouraged and exacerbated by...
//Officers have detained 36 men and three women from homes across Kirklees, Bradford and Leeds in the past two weeks. Five other men were arrested last year in connection with the same...
//Labour officials are looking at proposals for a "horrifying" tax of homeowners on the increase in the value of their houses. A report commissioned by the party and uploaded to their website this...
I have a sturdy duplex printer for heavy use, but for light colour use I have a ‘Brother J4120DW’ which costs a fortune in ink so I’m thinking it would be cheaper to buy a new printer. Any...
//The parents of a Muslim convert dubbed "Jihadi Jack" have been found guilty of funding terrorism. John Letts, 58, and Sally Lane, 57, from Oxford, sent their son £223 while he was in Syria despite...
//Brighton MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle is hosting Ahmed Alshami at a Stop the War Coalition meeting in the Commons on Tuesday….Mr Alshami plays a prominent role as an international spokesman and an...
//A woman has said she was left alone on an Air Canada plane after falling asleep during a flight. Tiffani Adams said she fell asleep while flying from Quebec to Toronto on 9 June. When she woke up,...
A couple of weeks ago I broke a very fine crystal wine glass and picking up the pieces got a small shard stuck in the palm of my hand half an inch or so below the ring finger. It went in quite deeply...