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stroller

If you need someone with a German accent to make threatening phone-calls, let me know guys.

gjbkk

Woman, 82, accused of Asbo breach


Dorothy Evans pictured at a previous hearing



An 82-year-old woman has appeared at Cardiff Crown Court accused of breaching her Anti-social Behaviour Order (Asbo).
The case against Dorothy Evans, of Park Crescent, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, was adjourned. Mrs Evans is charged with using threatening words towards her next-door neighbour. The case was adjourned until May and she was granted conditional bail at the hearing.







is using threatening words a criminal offence? at 82 what the hell is she going to do shout out at someone and say stop looking at me or i will die

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bkkandrew

That idea's shit. Petrol far too expensive...

astasinim

Aint none left, its all been bought up by panic buyers.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Plea to avoid petrol panic buying

No 10 also warned that panic buying of petrol could lead to shortages and was not necessary as the industry believed there were sufficient stocks.
"Increasing demand could potentially cause problems for those who need fuel," the spokeswoman said.

"I cannot guarantee that every garage forecourt will have petrol at that precise moment. I hope the vast majority of people are sensible about this.
"They might have to be patient. People will have to be sensible and rational.
"There are short term stock outs occurring at some filling stations in Scotland, but the petrol industry is confident that they can continue to resupply from stocks and imports

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sunderlandstephen

It gets worse. Woman fined £75 because her 4 year old daughter dropped a morsal of sausage roll she was eating , the said morsal was carried away by bird before she could pick it up herself,beggers belief.

Agent_Smith

Who's running the U.K. now? Mussolini? Stalin?

Northern Scum

You're going to have to bear with me on this one, because I didn't believe it at first, either.

It's a story from the Blackpool Gazette.

Part 1

Police in Fleetwood are appealing for help in their search for a missing five-month-old rottweiler called Asbo (as in Anti-Social Behavior Order).

The dog belongs to Karen Minto, a 22-year-old mother of three children who glory in the names Angel Louise, Morgan Lee and Gypsi Rose. She is pictured with the children and her partner, Steve, along with their other dog, an alsatian-cross called Hendrix (as in Jimi) who is reported to be pining for Asbo.

Nevertheless, the Blackpool Plod are taking the puppy's disappearance very seriously. DC Scott Hoyle said: "We are appealing to the public to keep their eyes open. "He has an eye condition which makes him slightly cross-eyed, so he should be easy to recognise. Anybody who knows about this crime should call Fleetwood police or Crimestoppers."

Presumably, the bold detective Hoyle managed to read this out with a straight face.

So if you spot a cross-eyed rottweiler, answering to the name of Asbo: Who you gonna call? Crimestoppers!

What amazes me is that this story was reported without comment as if it were nothing unusual. The frightening thing is that it isn't unusual. Incidentally, Karen Minto is pregnant again. Another baby will no doubt help her come to terms with the loss of Asbo.

She'll probably call this one Giro.

Part 2

Police are winding up their search for five-month-old Asbo, who was reported stolen in a burglary last week.

It would now appear that what actually happened was that when Asbo's owner Karen Minto went out to the pub, she left the dog flap open and he wandered off on his own. Karen made up the burglary story because she didn't want to have to tell her partner, Steve, the truth.

Asbo has been downgraded from kidnapped to missing dog

While scouring the Blackpool Gazette for the latest news on Asbo, the cross-eyed rottweiler, I stumbled across a story about hopscotch being banned in Fleetwood for "safety" reasons.

In a valiant effort to put herself in the running for a Here We Go Looby Loo Award, Ruth Hunter, who describes herself as a "Streetscene Manager", said: "The hopscotch grid took up the width of a narrow strip of pavement very close to shops and there was an important safety issue with children playing on the grid, particularly for people walking on the pavement, who would have to step into the very busy road to avoid them."

Where do they find these people?

bkkandrew

"Streetscene Manager" - where do you apply for such jobs?

Northern Scum

In the Guardian.

oldgit

OGC unveils new logo to red faces - Telegraph


They are now bashing the Poms, this sent to a friend from his mate in Oz

Northern Scum

Still no word on Asbo, the cross-eyed rottweiler missing in Fleetwood.

His owner has probably bought another one from a man in a pub by now.

Now that the police hunt has been scaled back, what are the chances of his safe return? I was rather hoping that his disappearance might have spawned a nationwide campaign, with special Asbo T-shirts, posters and sponsored walks.

Still, there is hope. It has been revealed that a number of councils are using anti-terrorism powers to mount surveillance operations on "notorious dog-fouling hotspots". Perhaps Asbo will be caught on camera doing an illegal whoopsie.

bkkandrew

No link (has been taken down), but Broon actually opened a conference with the logo as a jazzed-up swastika above his head. Apparrently it was a prank by some designer...!

It may be available on google history, Maybe Thetyim could oblige (he's good at that sort of thing...)

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bkkandrew

OK, here it is:

caller

No fine tuning needed! Which country would be perceived as the most corrupt? Which as the most 'upstanding'?

That folks, is the art of corruption purring away behind the scenes, not in your face as in LOS.

stroller

Of course there is corruption behind the scenes, but it has serious consequences when found out about in the UK, in contrast to Thailand, no?

I mean 'corruption' as legally defined, not the gray area of favoritism which can not be proven.

caller

Yes, when found out it may lead to serious consequences, but normally there's a compromise. Steal the same amount by robbing a bank or through corruption, and unlike the US, you will find the latter treated far more leniantly.

By its very nature, corruption is a grey area.

I was just trying to point out that its rife in the UK but not in your face.

Spin

Corruption is alive and well in the Uk, how do you think they got the 2012 olympics? That process is benter than a forty pound note.

bkkandrew

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=563463&in_page_id=1770

'We're fed up with the cold weather and the NHS,' say asylum seekers trying to break OUT of Britain


Illegal immigrants are leaving the country in search of warmer weather and better health care (file picture)


Failed asylum seekers are leaving the UK in their droves because they don't like our chilly weather and the state of the NHS, claims a top immigration officer.



Les Williams, a chief immigration officer for the UK Border Agency, said that he and his team have come across scores of illegal immigrants trying to break out of Britain in recent weeks.

He said that of those caught most have said that the lack of sunshine and bad healthcare were the main reasons why they wanted to leave the UK.

The majority of those caught are from Afghanistan and Iraq, where the temperatures rarely drop below 35C.

Mr Williams revealed: "One thing we have noticed recently is people trying to leave the country."

He told Police Review magazine: "We cannot explain exactly why they are trying to go, but when some of these people were questioned they said they wanted to go to a warmer country as they are fed up with the English weather and fed up with their treatment on the NHS."

An immigration insider said he had stopped a group of four Iraqis trying to sneak out of the port of Dover.

He said today: "What Les said is quite right.

"There has been a big rise in the number of illegals were are catching sneaking out of the country."

He added: "A group of four men from Iraq I stopped recently said they were sick of the rain and the cold and just wanted to get home or go to somewhere with a bit more sun.

"They also complained that they couldn't get appointments to see a doctor or a dentist.
"It's all a bit rich really."

Agent_Smith

Just following the natives.

Why anyone chooses to live in Blighty is beyond me, especially when Australia is so easy to emigrate to.

Jet Gorgon