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I must admit to being shocked when I read this http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/summer-of-hunger-huge-rise-in-food-bank-use-as-demand-linked-to-welfare-reform-8755101.html Do the cretins in government realise the level of poverty that exist on our shores. We send billions...

There is no justice in the world http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/disgraced-former-mp-chris-huhne-lands-new-job-8755469.html

Just had a leaflet through the door from Taylor Wimpey and Belway advertising a community consultation exercise on the 16th July between 1pm and 4.30pm at St Thomas Doxey. Just at the time when most people will be either at work or just back from the school run with the kids. The proposal is...

I've just read an interesting article where a young Asian lady was sentenced to 250 hours of community service for agreeing that anyone wearing a help for heroes t shirt should expect to get beheaded. Appalling as it is she tweeted this before it was identified that it was a member if the armed...

I spotted an interesting photograph in the Stafford edition of the Express and Star showing a fencing competition between Merlin Maddock and a local champion where Merlin won. He was described as an inventor and a backward walker. The photo was from the 70's but the chap looked very interesting...

Just read this online and whilst the idea is good, did we actually vote for this assistant? or is it like the youth commissioner that resigned recently and just a case of jobs for the boys or girls? or another quango in the making with inflated salaries and expense accounts on the tax payers...

Just been to have the guys at the Island car wash do the magic to the old bus and was admiring a new shiny black Jaguar XJ lwb. Whilst waiting for the guys to finish I was chatting to the driver who told me the car was the official county vehicle. I then caught on with the plate S333SCC. Surely...

I had to go to Chertsey in Surrey today Fearing that my bus wouldn't make it and having priced the train and found that a return ticket would be £148! and a trip into Euston before travelling out again I took the plunge and hired a car from Afford. Checked on the nett and got an extra 5% online...

Just read this in the Newsletter online http://www.staffordshirenewsletter.co.uk/News/Detailed-plans-submitted-for-250-Yarnfield-homes-02052013.htm I did think 'wow that's a lot of houses for a small place' until I read the article and it is in fact 21 houses. Is the art of proof reading dead?

Suspended sentences for social media Venables posters Social media users Dean Liddle and Neil Harkins have each received nine month jail sentences suspended for 15 months at London's High Court for breaching an injunction banning the revelation of the new identities of toddler James Bulger's...

The house we have moved into has six old and rusty gas bottles in the garden. I have cleaned up the garden and had a skip to get rid of the rubbish but didn't want to throw these in due to the danger of gas residue. Does anyone know where to dispose of these.