killing billy goats in north devon there's a population of wild goats for a thousand years or more
as with many other places in devon and cornwall, the local population is being rapidly displaced by wealthy retired people moving from london and the home counties
these people often move and and then set about changing everything about the place they've moved into, whether it's by destroying the local economy so those scruffy working types will leave and a nice antique shop can be installed into the old factory / fish market / timber yard etc
but this really sums it up... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/6670923.stm
the people who complained about these wild goats are almost exclusively people who have recently moved into the area
i wish they would all fuck off and die (the people, not the goats)
Mao ‘s portrait in Tiananmen Square was burned . [FONT=ćźäœ]A man damaged a portrait of Mao Zedong that hangs over Tiananmen Square in central Beijing. The man, identified as Gu Hai'ou, from the northwestern city of Urumqi, threw a burning object at the portrait of communist China's first leader on afternoon of June 12th, the Xinhua News Agency said.[/FONT]
Police get new powers to evict anti-social residents from their own homes [FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Antisocial owners could be made homeless
· Justice should be swift, says home secretary[/FONT] [FONT=Geneva,Arial,sans-serif]
[/FONT] Sweeping new instant justice powers are to be given to the police to evict "neighbours from hell" and other antisocial residents as part of home secretary John Reid's law and order legislation to be unveiled in the Queen's speech today.Mr Reid said he wanted to give police the immediate power to close down premises being used for drunken parties, raves, brothels or other persistent antisocial activity, and to "move away from the traditional view that justice has to involve going to court".
full story:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1948056,00.html
another source:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23396583-details/Police+get+new+powers+to+evict+anti-social+residents+from+their+own+homes/article.do
:hopeless: :you_crazy :hopeless:
fuck off reid :yakk: useless authoritarian cunt, its another clampdown n power that reduces our fuckin freedom.
and to think reid used to be left wing :you_crazy
paedophile living in school grounds i can't believe the judge's decision in this case. what i don't understand is why he isn't in prison (the paedophile)
School fights to evict paedophile
A convicted paedophile is living in the grounds of a primary school despite a court battle to evict him.
Timothy Martin, 34, was found guilty at St Albans Crown Court last week of sexual activity with a child.
A judge refused an eviction bid in December saying Martin had a tenancy agreement and had not been convicted.
Martin is on bail awaiting sentencing - an appeal against the failed eviction bid will be heard on 25 May.
Martin moved into the school cottage last July when he was offered the job of caretaker at Beechfield School in Watford, north London.
Police checks by the school then revealed the investigation against him.
The council started eviction proceedings against Martin as soon as he was charged last September - the proceedings were heard at Watford County Court in early December.
But the judge refused to force Martin out even though he had not signed a tenancy agreement.
The judge said under the law he had an assured short term tenancy agreement and was allowed to remain.
The council then tried to get the Crown Court judge presiding over Martin's criminal case to alter his bail conditions to say he could not live on the school grounds but he also refused.
Parents were not told of Martin's background until after his conviction when they received a letter from the head teacher, who until then was legally bound not to inform them.
A spokesman for Hertfordshire County Council said: "We are appalled by this situation."
Measures were taken by the school to prevent Martin gaining access to its buildings, with security doors being kept locked and the head teacher monitoring children as they left the grounds.
An appeal was immediately lodged against the county court's decision but this is not due to be heard until 25 May.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6657761.stm
UK : Scot : Election results and the future so what does it all mean now that the SNP are the largest party in Scotland? I saw on the news today they have formed a deal with the Greens which sounds good, but interested to know what all the Scots on here think..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6646227.stm
Irish teenager petitioning the courts for the right to have an abortion
bbc.co.uk wrote:
A 17-year-old pregnant Irish girl is appearing in the High Court in Dublin to press for the right to travel to Britain for an abortion.
Miss D was informed last month that her foetus has anencephaly, a condition which means that a large part of the brain and skull is missing.
Babies with anencephaly live a maximum of just three days after birth.
A psychiatrist appointed by the HSE said that the teenager was distraught at the diagnosis, but not suicidal, and therefore did not meet the criteria for being allowed a termination.
Eoghan Fitzsimons told the court that police had responded to a request by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to prevent her leaving the country, saying they could not and would not do so without a court order.
Abortion is illegal in Ireland except where the mother's life is threatened by a medical condition or suicide.
Mr Fitzsimons said it was inhumane to expect the girl to carry the foetus for the full nine months only for it to die.
the full report is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6618911.stm
Colombia hunts underwear robbers Police in Colombia are searching for members of a gang who target women and steal their underwear in public.
A succession of women, mainly young women and students, have been attacked in the western city of Pereira, often at bus stops early in the morning.
The gang has become known across the city as the "knicker robbers". They do not usually hurt their victims, instead demanding only underwear and valuables.
Police in Pereira have described the gang as "sexual maniacs". The attackers often strike as women wait at bus stops between the hours of 0500 and 0700, police said.
On other occasions they wait for their victims to leave work or a university campus later in the day.
Carlos Felipe Cordoba, a spokesman for the governor of Pereira, told Colombian media that police and other local and intelligence groups were working to identify and catch the gang.
Their "inexplicable" conduct, he said, was already being analysed by psychologists and sexual experts
:you_crazy
elections en France big day in France today. There has been a sweep to the political right (and authoritarian right wing at that) accross Europe over the last decade.
I was living in France during the last election, when the choice was between Chirac (corrupt, right wing) and Le Penn (fascist). the level of racism in France is possibly the worst of any of the 23 countries I've lived in
at least there is a left wing contener this time, but Sarko is widely expected to win
The riots will begin when he is elected
Nabila Ramdani
Sunday May 6, 2007
The Observer
A bright spring morning on Paris's Left Bank and les flics are already
out in force. You can glimpse the red bands on their kepis as they lurk
behind bushes waiting to trap another speedster. Here's one now,
accelerating as he sees the path opening up in front of him.
Faster, faster and then a sharp blast from a whistle as he's pulled over
by at least three stationary policemen. They know offenders will come
quietly, offering names and addresses in expectation of a caution, or
even a fine.
Such heavy policing is to catch people jogging on the grass. There is a
âŹ33 punishment for breaking Luxembourg Gardens bylaws. Particularly
antisocial runners might even earn a truncheon swipe to the chest.
This is law and order, Sarkozy-style. It was as 'le tough cop' that
Nicolas Sarkozy styled himself during two terms as Interior Minister,
producing a police force almost entirely in his own image, that is to
say small-minded, awkward, at times extremely nasty, and - as far as
keeping the peace is concerned - surprisingly ineffective.
As a young Frenchwoman of Algerian descent who has spent more time in
Paris's banlieues than its famed Latin Quarter, it's clear to me that
Sarkozy shows no sign of learning from his mistakes. Urban unrest will
be a prevailing feature of his presidency, starting with rioting on the
night he is elected. In the words of a friend: 'It may be that thousands
take to the street, but I can't help feeling it's going to be worse than
that'.
A chilling blend of uncompromising brutality and extreme pettiness has
dominated France since Sarko became Interior Minister in 2002. His first
bill introduced prison terms for a vast range of petty offences from
begging and 'insulting security guards' to 'loitering in communal areas'.
Civil liberties groups said it was waging 'war on the poor'; Sarko said
it was fighting an ever-rising crime rate, one that is still escalating.
A tough, intimidating police force was viewed as a priority by Sarko,
and thousands more officers were put on the beat.
When Azouz Begag, the minister for equality, disagreed with the
reactionary approach to the suburban riots of autumn 2005, he was
threatened with a punch by the diminutive Sarko. Such aggression was in
people's minds when, last month, a riot broke out at the Gare du Nord
after the police had laid into an alleged illegal immigrant who had not
paid his metro fare. Witnesses said officers hit him 'time and time again'.
The so-called 'blacks' and 'beurs' - those with African or North African
backgrounds - are often singled out for physical reprimands. Sarko has
made crackdowns on immigrants the cornerstone of his law and order policy.
Go to the suburbs at any time of day or night and you'll see Sarko-style
violence used to quell everything from unruly schoolboys to domestic
disputes. Alleged offenders will be lined up against walls, handcuffed,
and then punched viciously. This unofficial policy reached its zenith
during the civil unrest of 2005.
It began in the Parisian suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, following the
deaths of two teenagers attempting to hide from police. It was Sarko who
at first described protesters as 'hoodlums' and 'gangsters', but it soon
became clear they were victims of the police brutality he had done so
much to encourage. In February, two officers were charged in connection
with the deaths.
With an alienated, unemployed and largely immigrant underclass blamed
for making a political protest through the disturbances, the ever
tactful Interior Minister called them 'scum' to be 'washed away with a
power hose'.
In last year's 'circulaire Sarkozy', Sarko proposed giving residency
papers to immigrant families with children already integrated in French
schools. Some 25,000 applied. It was then just a matter of refusing the
vast majority and going to arrest those who remained. Parents were
picked up as they collected their children from school.
The political establishment may complain about Sarko using his
state-funded henchmen to investigate everything from political rivals to
troublesome journalists, but it is those who are regularly victimised
who suffer most.
There have been sops to immigrants, of course. Sarkozy is too smart to
ignore a sizeable electoral power base. In 2002, he set up France's
first Muslim council, he opposed the ban on headscarves in schools and
he favours positive discrimination. All small comfort for those who know
that a Sarko presidency will be characterised by aggression towards
those who do not fit his vision of an ordered, small-minded state. And
there will also be no running on the grass in Luxembourg Gardens.
· Nabila Ramdani is a history lecturer at Paris University.
dear old patrick sir patrick moore
"I would like to see two independent wavelengths - one controlled by women, and one for us, controlled by men."
Moore blames women for 'banal' TV
British TV standards are deteriorating because the BBC is "run by women", astronomer Sir Patrick Moore has said.
The Sky at Night host also described female newsreaders as "jokey" and called for separate channels to cater for the needs of the different sexes.
"I think it may eventually happen," the 84-year-old told the Radio Times.
A BBC spokesman described Sir Patrick as being one of TV's best-loved figures and said his "forthright" views were "what we all love about him".
The presenter said: "The trouble is the BBC now is run by women and it shows soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays. You wouldn't have had that in the golden days."
"I would like to see two independent wavelengths - one controlled by women, and one for us, controlled by men."
He claimed that interesting programmes were screened too late at night, and said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than appear on Celebrity Big Brother. And asked about his favourite series, Sir Patrick said he no longer enjoyed certain programmes because of their modern storylines.
"I used to watch Doctor Who and Star Trek, but they went PC - making women commanders, that kind of thing. I stopped watching."
Sir Patrick appears in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-serving TV presenter, having appeared on his show about astronomy since 1957.
shame. i always quite liked the old fucker. now he's spouting mysoginy, i've tuned right out from everything he says and just faintly percieve a lot of blahblahblah
it's difficult for me because i want to know about space
john reid to stand down from the bbc website
"John Reid has told the BBC he will stand down as home secretary in June when "Tony Blair goes". He has ruled out a challenge to Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership, after months of speculation."
it may not be "news" but it's the first i've heard about it... all i can is thank fuckin god. although the damage was probably already done.
UK not leading Afghan drug fight
bbc.co.uk wrote:
"The UK took on lead G8 responsibility for counter narcotics following the Bonn Agreement in 2001," she said in a written answer.
"In 2006 it was agreed that the concept of 'lead nation' was redundant, as the Afghan government now had lead responsibility for all aspects of security sector reform."
She said the government had pledged ÂŁ270 million over three years to support the Afghan government's fight against drugs.
The full story is here
The UVF is standing down as a terrorist organisation … Taken from the bbc.co.uk/news
Last Updated: Thursday, 3 May 2007, 09:01 GMT 10:01 UK
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UVF statement in full
The UVF has said it will become a civilian organisation
Following a direct engagement with all the units and departments of our organisation, the leadership of the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando today make public the outcome of our three year consultation process.
We do so against a backdrop of increasing community acceptance that the mainstream republican offensive has ended; that the six principles upon which our ceasefire was predicated are maintained; that the principle of consent has been firmly established and thus, that the union remains safe.
We welcome recent developments in securing stable, durable democratic structures in Northern Ireland and accept as significant, support by the mainstream republican movement of the constitutional status quo.
Commensurate with these developments, as of 12 midnight, Thursday 3 May 2007, the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando will assume a non-military, civilianised, role.
To consolidate this fundamental change in outlook we have addressed the methodology of transformation from military to civilian organisation by implementing the following measures in every operational and command area.
Recruitment
All recruitment has ceased; military training has ceased; targeting has ceased and all intelligence rendered obsolete; all active service units have been de-activated; all ordinance has been put beyond reach and the IICD instructed accordingly.
We encourage our volunteers to embrace the challenges which continue to face their communities and support their continued participation in non-military capacities.
We reaffirm our opposition to all criminality and instruct our volunteers to cooperate fully with the lawful authorities in all possible instances.
Moreover, we state unequivocally, that any volunteer engaged in criminality does so in direct contravention of brigade command and thus we welcome any recourse through due process of law.
All volunteers are further encouraged to show support for credible restorative justice projects so that they, with their respective communities, may help to eradicate criminality and anti-social behaviour in our society.
We call on all violent dissidents to desist immediately
We ask the government to facilitate this process and remove the obstacles which currently prevent our volunteers and their families from assuming full and meaningful citizenship.
We call on all violent dissidents to desist immediately and urge all relevant governments and their security apparatus to deal swiftly and efficiently with this threat.
Failure to do so will inevitably provoke another generation of loyalists toward armed resistance.
We have taken the above measures in an earnest attempt to augment the return of accountable democracy to the people of Northern Ireland and as such, to engender confidence that the constitutional question has now been firmly settled.
In doing so we reaffirm the legitimacy of our tactical response to violent nationalism yet reiterate the sincere expression of abject and true remorse to all innocent victims of the conflict.
Brigade command salutes the dedication and fortitude of officers, NCOs and volunteers throughout the difficult, brutal years of armed resistance.
We reflect with honour on those from our organisation who made the ultimate sacrifice; those who endured long years of incarceration and the loyal families who shared their suffering and supported them throughout.
Finally, we convey our appreciation for their honest forthright exchange with officers, NCOs and volunteers throughout the organisation over the past three years which has allowed us to assume with confidence the position we adopt today. For God and Ulster. Captain William Johnston, Adjutant
a good step forward i think ...
the only problem is they have not handed in weapons but put them ''out of reach'' this does not comply with government legislation to hand them in ...
in a pickle..again about the elections right im confused on who i should vote for loadsa ppl say the lib dems, i will vote for them, unless someone changes my mind, so who are U voting for on thursday and WHY1234
Brunstrom breached human rights
MCN New's wrote:
A solicitor representing the family of Mark Gibney says Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom may have breached his clientsâ human rights.
Paul Beck, from Liverpool based solicitors, Quinn Barrow said: âThere might be a human rights violation. Photos taken from a crash scene for accident investigation purposes have been exploited.
âThese were not publicity photos; Brunstrom had 101 avenues to take if he wanted legitimate photos of accidents to show to the journalists.â
âWould Brunstrom like photographs of his children being shown to journalists? The question doesnât even need to be answered. However, when it comes to some poor unrepresented Scouse family then itâs fine.
âWhat goes through the manâs mind? Heâs devastated a family.â
More than 1000 MCN readers have already registered to call for Brunstrom's dismissal. If you'd like to add your name to the list, then email mcn.online@emap.com, now, with your full name and address
This bloke is a complete tosser, he was doing a presentation to journalists about safety on the roads (i think it was about motorbikes). He was using pictures of injured or dead riders to put his point of the risks involved with being a biker, he chose to use pictures of a man who was decapitated when he had an accident on his bike. 1 of the pictures he showed was of the helmet the man was wearing on the side of the road with the head still in it and the eye's open.
this was done WITHOUT the go ahead from the mans family.
He does have some very strange view's on matters one or two i agree with but then a majority i dissagree with. I like his views on drugs as they are sensible, but his ideas on road policies are backwards. If he has his way we will not be able to get away with the odd bit of speeding and it will be a big brother style system watching all drivers. :you_crazy
Ah well my rant over.................
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