The Leonard and Marianne film that makes us laugh and cry about it all again
We all hope that death will come to us gently in that good night. And for many of us it does … it should be our last act of dignity and belief. In his...
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Mind you slang-uage! They is poeits an them dint no it!
Cressida Cowell, new Children’s Laureate, wants to put a library back in every primary school in the UK, just like in the 1950s and 60s. The author of the How To Train Your Dragon...
The ancient mountainside village where folk is becoming the lore
Východná is a strange little place, pinned as it is either side of a busy main Slovak road under Crooked Mountain. On an average day it is a brooding watchful place where strangers are...
So, who did the damage? Politician who complained about ‘lenient’ child-porn sentence – or politician who downloaded it?
A Welsh politician has been accused of damaging his party’s reputation after criticising the non-custodial sentence given to another politician who had a collection of child pornography. Simon Thomas resigned as a regional Assembly...
What right has this ‘vile’ campaigner to attack Kerry over exe’s death?
Kerry Katona’s family have called claims by controversial campaigning group Fathers4Justice disgusting after the death of her ex-husband George Kay. Fathers4Justice founder Matt O’Connor tweeted that Kerry had ‘blood on her hands’ over George’s...
There’s thunder on mountains and tumblers in the square … help Roman’s odyssey change lives
The curious and dramatic Slovak film this extract is taken from is the story of one man’s determination to succeed against all the odds. It was sent to the consumerwatchfoundation.com offices recently and the...
Now Whirlpool takes a tumble over 800,000 potentially faulty dryers
You probably read it here first last month – that, in an unprecedented move, a leading manufacturer of household white goods had made a public appeal to owners of half a million of its...
A quick plug for two men in an electric car
There are a lot of shocks in the world of electric vehicles – and some as daft as they come! One of the latest is EU rules are demanding new electric vehicles are fitted...
Why recycling waste for your local council is shameful load of rubbish
Hundreds of thousands of tons of rubbish is being dumped in landfill sites or burned. Government figures show that up to half of ‘recyclable’ waste is not being recycled despite households taking the time...
As another MP appears to claim victory for PA inquiry … we say, it’s the power of the victims that made it happen
Louise Hague, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Heeley, has said: “In recent weeks, I’ve called on the Government to launch an independent inquiry into the family courts to help ensure that victims of abuse and their...
Who is Dezo Hoffman? And why he’s rolling home to Slovakia after nearly a century…
Dezo Hoffman is said to have taken the first professional photographs of The Beatles in the very early 1960s. He was already 50 years old and by talent and luck was catapulted into that ...
