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Click on image to see it full-size Hundreds of people are expected to take part in a march and rally against racism in Glasgow later today The event, in advance of St Andrew's Day, is being organised by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). The march will set off from St Andrew's in the Square, off Saltmarket, at 1100 GMT for a rally at Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose Street, at noon. The event has...
ANNALS OF GOVERNMENT MEDICINE: “Hundreds of patients died needlessly at NHS hospital due to appalling care.” Plus this: “As is typical in government medicine, there has been no accountability even though Basildon has been criticized publicly since 2001, when the Royal College of Nursing described conditions there as ‘third world.’”
WHAT’S to stop a bunch of North London Trot parents scraping two million quid together and sponsoring a secondary school with, as the jargon has it, a distinctive ethos? I have asked this question, semi-seriously, of people with a better understanding of New Labour educational policy than I can personally claim. As far as they can tell, such a project would technically be within the rules. After...
It's what we've all been waiting for since the 2003 Licensing Act came into force. A clear regime for incidental music and small gigs. So, here goes: Exempt : a pub promoting a stand-up comedian accompanied by a pianist. Licensable: a pub promoting a performance by a pianist/singer supported by a stand-up comedian. Exempt: pub with pianist or other single instrument playing background music. Licensable:...
The chief suspect in the killing of at least 57 people in the southern Philippines has turned himself in to local authorities. Andal Ampatuan Jr, a local mayor and member of a powerful political clan in the Maguindanao province, says he surrendered to prove his innocence. But Aljazeera later spoke to a man who said he was there when the killings happened, and he laid the blame squarely on Ampatuan...
The recent award that the Botswana Musicians Union (BOMU) bestowed on veteran muso Malombo Mmereki was in recognition of his immense contribution to local music.
The latest assessment of the people killed in the Philippines massacre claims that 27 journalists were among the total of 57 deaths. It is possible that the journalistic toll may rise. There is difficulty in identifying some bodies, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. Two journalists thought to have been in the ambushed convoy - Reynaldo "Bebot" Momay and Lindo...
Hundreds of patients may have died needlessly at an NHS hospital due to appalling standards of care, a damning report has found. Well, OK, we’ve seen this kind of NHS report before. They are not less dismaying because they are frequent. But this article notes additional outrages that are less often articulated, yet are so worth facing: the indifference to urgent problems and the lack of accountability,...
Hospital conditions in the United Kingdom are frequently appalling, but the Basildon and Thurrock University National Health Service Hospitals are especially bad, with hundreds of preventable deaths occurring yearly. The Telegraph headlines, "Hundreds of patients died needlessly at NHS hospital due to appalling care" : Poor nursing care, filthy wards and lack of leadership at Basildon and...
Prisoners have been offered the chance of winning a day out of jail as top prize in their Christmas raffle in a move which has angered victim support groups. Inmates at HMP Kirkham, near Blackpool, Lancashire, have been told they could enjoy a whole day of freedom if they enter the £1 draw. The raffle is open to the 590 prisoners held at the category D jail, some of whom will include rapists,...
According to a recent study by YouGov for the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists, up to 80% of women suffer foot problems of some sort, including cracked heels, bunions and fallen arches.
'Govt propaganda machine' journalist gets PKR boot SHAH ALAM: A journalist with a local Malay daily was chased out of a press conference called by officers of Selangor’s Pakatan Rakyat elected representatives at the state secretariat building. Selangor Pakatan Rakyat Elected Representatives Officers Association (Selproa) secretary Ng Yap Hwa chased out Utusan Malaysia journalist Yazid Alias...
PinPointe USA, Inc., a privately held emerging medical technology company which introduced the breakthrough PinPointe FootLaser treatment for toenail fungus in Europe, announced that Dr. Brian McDowell presented the results of his pilot clinical study "Laser Treatment for Toenail Fungus" (Harris, McDowell and Strisower, Proc. SPIE 7161A, 2009) at the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists...
That wacky bunch of no-hoper Stalinists, conspiracy nuts and embittered ex-Northcliffe hacks who make up the membership of the local branch of the NUJ (National Union of Journalists) have come up with a recruitment plan. “BRISTOL NUJ can be at the forefront of the union’s drive to recruit the thousands of creative workers in the new [...]
This is one of my last posts before a richly deserved vacation (well, in fact, a typical Elders' covert operation in the Big Satan's Homeland Security jurisdiction). So I have decided to come out of the closet at least on one facet of my complex personality: I am an anti-Semite. And this is final.The final step on the way to self-discovery was made today, when I have read a post at Harry's place on...
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