Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

You trying to get cheap Tesco shares skinny.

Nothing wrong with a nice little bit of horse steak.

Just a little sweeter than beef.

Helicopter 'crashes into crane' in London

The emergency services are responding to reports of a helicopter crash in south London.

The London Fire Brigade said it had received multiple calls of a helicopter hitting a crane in Vauxhall.

Ex-BBC producer Paul Ferguson said the helicopter "plummeted straight into the ground". People have reported seeing a pall of smoke in the area.

Police said they first received calls at 08:00 GMT and the London Ambulance Service said it was also at the scene.

Mr Lucas said the men sometimes used extreme physical and sexual violence on the girls.

He said: "The depravity, and I use that word with care, of what was done to the complainants was extreme.

"The facts in this case will make you feel uncomfortable."

The court was told the girls were taken to empty private houses and guest houses where others would pay to have sex with them, often in groups.

The men came from as far afield as Bradford, Leeds, London and Slough.

The girls were also taken to other towns and cities, including London and Bournemouth.

Mr Lucas said: "The girls were usually given so many drugs that they were barely aware of what was going on. Indeed, they say it was the only way they could cope with what was going on.

"Between acts of abuse sometimes stretching over a number of days, the Oxford men ensured girls were guarded so that they could not escape."

The trial is expected to last until April. The defendants are all in custody.

The defendants are:

but i hear of no action against the clients which is almost more disturbing

Or the voyeurs!

cynic that is untrue the police are going to find the abusers who ver they may be
if you are still think not ring the met

And here's me thinking that Oxford came under Thames Valley Police. Morse would turn in his grave...

it was probably dining at The Randolph that killed him ..... what a dump!

the wrighter of morse drank in a small pub that i some times have a drink.
nice little pub

Colin Dexter would wring (or is that ring) his hands! :-)

from memory that was the Trout on the Cherwell (or is it the Isis?)..... however, i think you'll much of Morse was also filmed at The Randolph ..... certainly Dexter used to inhabit the place frequently

He also made a cameo appearance in every episode I believe.

Al Shabaab said in a statement the decision to kill Denis Allex, the codename for a hostage held in Somalia since 2009, was unanimous and followed three years of what it called "exhaustive attempts at negotiations" over his release.

"With the rescue attempt, France has voluntarily signed Allex's death warrant," the militants said in an emailed statement that was also posted on the group's official Twitter handle.

Edouard Guillaud, France's military chief of staff, asked to react to the statement, told Europe 1 Radio that Allex was presumed dead.

"We have nothing since Friday's raid on Denis Allex being alive. We think he is likely dead," he said.

On Monday, al-Shabaab taunted the French president, releasing pictures of the man lying face up on an orange surface surrounded by combat gear, including a caption with one photograph that said, "Francois Hollande, was it worth it?"
he usa uk should go in with france and wipe them out .

forget rules of war just go in and do the deed

surely your gunboat diplomacy should start simultaneously on the mersey, tyne and thames

the reason for kidnapping innocent people is because the west as allowed these terrorists to grow in power weak leaders have caused the problem
we need people like churchill and maggie to lead the world to fight these scum
it is time to destroy the terrorists

cynic you must be a yellow belly

i don't recollect either of those PMs using gunboat diplomacy, but then no doubt your great fund of ENGLISH history will teach us all otherwise

by the way, you never did manage to reveal how far back you had managed to trace your ENGLISH ancestry

I think we could send The Tinker to Holland to help the Dear Leader with his negotiations.

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Mind he could take the his tribe of 100 party followers with him.