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.

OK gone back to bed and got up again.
I meant 2003, 1977 was the year I started as a probby.

Mind you, can't call new police officers 'brobby's' anymore as it might upset the little darlings.

:-)

The Guardian's James Robinson says the letter from ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman is one of the most critical pieces of evidence to be submitted to the Select Committee.

Most importantly, in the letter Goodman states in the clearest possible terms he agreed to carry the can for phone-hacking in exchange for keeping his job in a deal negotiated by Crone and Coulson

Robinson has been analysing the letter sent by Goodman to News International in 2007 and provides the back story here. Click on this link to see the letter and then click on the yellow tabs for the explainers.

Here are images of the letter. You have to click on the link above to see the yellow explainers working. (Note the important 'blacking out'):



The Guardian's Nick Davies now has the full story which can be read here

He says:

Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and their former editor Andy Coulson all face embarrassing new allegations of dishonesty and cover-up after the publication of an explosive letter written by the News of the World's disgraced royal correspondent, Clive Goodman.

In the letter, which was written four years ago but published only on Tuesday, Goodman claims that phone hacking was "widely discussed" at editorial meetings at the paper until Coulson himself banned further references to it; that Coulson offered to let him keep his job if he agreed not to implicate the paper in hacking when he came to court; and that his own hacking was carried out with "the full knowledge and support" of other senior journalists, whom he named.

The claims are acutely troubling for the prime minister, David Cameron, who hired Coulson as his media adviser on the basis that he knew nothing about phone hacking. And they confront Rupert and James Murdoch with the humiliating prospect of being recalled to parliament to justify the evidence which they gave last month on the aftermath of Goodman's allegations. In a separate letter, one of the Murdochs' own law firms claim that parts of that evidence were variously "hard to credit", "self-serving" and "inaccurate and misleading".

Once again, the phone hacking scandal is really hotting up.

The Guardian are running a 'live time line of events' at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/aug/16/phone-hacking-scandal-live

As I write, the latest piece to hit the web site is this:

5.38pm: Tommy Sheridan's lawyer, Aamer Anwar, has just released this statement about Andy Coulson, David Cameron's former head of communications who was editor of the News of the World at the time of the alleged phone-hacking.

Today the Culture,Media & Sport Select Committee disclosed that it was alleged that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking. If true this is a serious contradiction of the evidence given by Andrew Coulson during the Perjury Trial of Tommy Sheridan. Strathclyde Police's majory inquiry into perjury and phonehacking should now consider interviewing Clive Goodman as well as Andy Coulson.

We were told repeatedly during Mr Sheridan's trial by the police and the Crown, that perjury strikes at the heart of the administration of justice and nobody was above the law- We now expect to see a similar robust response to News of the World and for arrests to take place in Scotland, and if it is shown that people lied in the Glasgow High Court they should go to prison."

Labour MP, Tom Watson, says there are a lot of people with questions to answer if allegations of a phone hacking cover up, made by former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman, are true

Mr Watson, who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, described the letter written by Clive Goodman, the News of the World's former royal correspondent, to News International executives as "explosive".

The letter, written in 2007 shortly after Goodman was released from prison following his prosecution for intercepting voicemails belonging to members of the royal househould, claims phone hacking was widespread at the paper.

Goodman's letter claimed phone hacking was "widely discussed" at editorial conferences until Andy Coulson, the former editor, banned explicit references to the illegal practice. The letter was sent to Les Hinton, the executive chairman of News International, but no action was taken.

"If the letter and the facts contained within Clive Goodman's letter are true then it is a damning revelation," the Labour MP said.

You must allow for the fact that the letter was written by Clive Goodman while he was suing the NOW for wrongful dismissal. It may not carry as much weight as it would seem.

The cost of providing social housing for migrants who come to Britain will hit 1 billion a year for the next 25 years, campaigners say.
MigrationWatch UK said 45 extra homes would need to be built every day, the equivalent of 1,400 a month, with each one funded by a public sector grant of around 60,000.
As waiting lists for social housing have increased in England over the last eight years, the campaigners also found that migrants from outside the EU were more likely to live in social housing than those born in the UK.
Just 17% of those born in the UK require social housing, compared with 80% of migrants from Somalia, 49 of those from Bangladesh.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of MigrationWatch UK, said: "The impact of immigration on the availability of social housing for British people has been airbrushed out for too long.
"Either the Government must cut immigration very substantially as they have promised or they must invest very large sums in the construction of extra social housing."
Its report found the Government projected that the number of households in England would increase by 232,000 each year to 2033, but would be just 149,000 with no net migration.
This "implies that net immigration over this period will lead to 83,000 additional households each year", the campaign group said.
In its calculation, the report authors assumed that 20% of migrant households will need social housing, "in line with the proportion of migrants who already have social housing tenures now after living for five or more years in the UK" - the equivalent of 16,600 a year or 45 every day.
It also found that social housing units are currently funded "on average with around 60,000 of public sector grant", taking the total cost to about 1 billion a year.

Scottish SPCA helps silly cow remove head from ladder

Don't panic my dear , its only a Comet


http://www.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=24238375

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-135

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14581874

NASA: Aliens might destroy us because of our gases

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama

Read Aloud For Best Effect!!!

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

I think they should adopt a mixture of White London Chav and Black London rap English

Some old Economics theory:






What have we learned in 2,066 years

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,
public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should
be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to
work, instead of living on public assistance."

- Cicero - 55 BC

So, evidently, nothing.

Very true

Mary Archer has unfortunately suffered with bladder cancer. They weren't going to say anything about it, because it is a bit embarrassing really.

Apparently, it just leaked out......

(cough, cough)

More at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2028065/The-operation-risky-I-alternative-Mary-Archer-reveals-battle-bladder-cancer--Jeffrey-proved-rock.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

On a brighter note, the 7-hour operation has been a complete success.

Met interpreter and translation costs.
2005-6 8823838
6-7 9881520
7-8 10541236
8-9 10897315
9-10 9598849
10-11 8829552

Total 50,188,822 Pounds.

Don't forget to add the cost of translating from CHAV and Rap street talk to English.