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.

TANKER you got that wrong, it Hays you are refering to.

Well it sounds like the post above is being investigated. It says ", the authorities have not disclosed details of the case".

That sounds like a 'case'.

Forced marriage: Girl aged five among 400 minors helpedBy Poonam Taneja

BBC Asian Network

from the bbc

so it must be true

stuart hall sentence to be looked at perhaps my letter as been looked at

one thing's for sure and true and that's that MrT blathers away at nineteen to the dozen under some illusion that he is the truth and the light ...... others may be more cynical and have their doubts

A 13-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal injuries four days after a family-arranged marriage to a man almost twice her age, a human rights group said.

Ilham Mahdi al Assi died last Friday in a hospital in Yemen's Hajja province, the Shaqaeq Arab Forum for Human Rights said, quoting a medical report.


She was married the previous Monday in a traditional arrangement known as a 'swap marriage', in which the brother of the bride also married the sister of the groom, it said.

Sigrid Kaag, regional director for UNICEF, said in a statement that the United Nations child agency was 'dismayed by the death of yet another child bride in Yemen'.

'Elham is a martyr of abuse of children's lives in Yemen and a clear example of what is justified by the lack of limits on the age of marriage,' SAF said in a statement.

A medical report from al-Thawra hospital said she suffered a tear to her genitals and severe bleeding.


The Yemeni rights group said the g


no child should have to put up with this . the men should be hung

lordy lordy ..... who's been feeding that man double-strength sennapod tea?

cynic . do not read the posts as it appears you do not like true facts they seem to hurt you to read facts

A 16-year-old girl turned up at a police station in her pyjamas on her wedding night claiming she had been forced by her family to marry a man she had only met once, a court was told.

The girl, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told officers 'she would be taken to Pakistan and shot and everybody back home would be told it was suicide', Luton County Court heard.


She had fled her wedding reception, which was attended by up to 1,000 guests, and arrived at a police station 'in her pyjamas and in a distressed state'.


It was also alleged death threats had previously been made against her if she refused to marry, counsel for Bedfordshire Police James Weston told a hearing yesterday.
the uk 2013

how much more proof does it take for CYNIC to no facts
and the question again why was FOSTER given iover 5 years for being in love
and no charges of other people breaking the laws .

Greenpeace activists attempt to climb London's Shard

Six activists attempt to climb Europe's tallest building in a protest against oil and gas drilling the Arctic


the police should shoot them down point blank

phew .... thank goodness tanker-craponics is not an obligatory course

At least T's policies would kerb the population explosion.
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Stunning!

Ashton Agar: Australian breaks Test record score for number 11

Australian teenager Ashton Agar has broken the record for the highest score by a Test number 11 in the first Ashes Test against England at Trent Bridge.
The debutant left-arm spinner was out for 98, beating the previous top score of 95 made by West Indies' Tino Best against England at Edgbaston in 2012.

skin yes he was fantastic and was put in the team at the last moment
another with a great future

England 11-2 FFS!!!!!!!!!

Oh hairy one of the wet knickers.

It isn't the size of the donation, or the gift of the donation itself, but the intention to to buy favour, or pervert policies, or act dishonestly in order to favour the gifter or associates illegally.

The government in a democracy is supposed to be a representation of the people views of the people. (Preferably, honestly informed.)

But as you know size sometimes does matter.

You mean like this Fred?
On 15 March 2006, in the Cash for Peerages scandal, Dromey spoke of not being aware, despite being party treasurer, of £3.5 million loaned to the Labour Party in 2005 by three persons who were subsequently nominated for life peerages (Chai Patel, Sir David Garrard, and Barry Townsley).
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Hays still reckon I called it wrong on England not taking the ball first.

Sure we would have skittled them for about 100.

Now weve let them into the test series.

Bad bad captaincy from Cook.

Or like this Fred.

Dromey was caught up in further financial scandals in 2007 as he was responsible for party finances, which included more than £630,000 in illegal donations from David Abrahams. Dromey again claimed to know nothing of the donations, with critics wondering why he hadn't examined the issue more closely. Harman was also caught up in the affair, as her staff had solicited and accepted illegal donations totalling £5,000.
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2517,
post 27073,

Yes, if that was the reason for the peerages.

My question was whether the loan was repaid and why, or what was it provided for.

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Post 27075

If it was illegal then it should be exposed and treated accordingly.

So should riding with the hunt and looking for foxes and tea times at No 10 with admissions through the back door.

At least Harold had the union leaders led in through the front door for beer and skittles.

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But £50,000 into a relatives back pocket, strikes me as a different level of dealings.

Again refer back,to what I have written the levels of "political" donation, or gifts suggesting they should be reviewed.

At the same time MPs should be full timers and consider themselves to be part timers at the HP or allowed to make arrangements while in office for later payments, or payments in kind, at later dates.

Once, you open up the old "smoke filled" rooms it may be surprising what one reveals.

If all politicians were honest, upright, incorruptible individuals, then changes would be unnecessary, but politicians of all parties have shown themselves to be not so.

The reason why there is so much disdain for them at the moment.