There’s hardly a day gone past this year when America hasn’t experienced a mass shooting. The Thousand Oaks shooting in California was number 307 this year.
The media has been awash with the story of the six people who set fire to a cardboard model of Grenfell Tower in their back garden. Thank God the police acted so quickly in dealing with this. For a while I thought they were going to waste their time investigating the endless stream on stabbings in the capital.
With news that Debenhams is planning to close 50 of its stores there were more headlines being bandied around about the ‘death of the high street’ and ‘grim news for the retail industry’.
It’s that time of year when fireworks are being set off at all hours, the loud bangs have got guinea pigs cowering under their straw beds and predictably there are calls, yet again, for fireworks to be banned.
Former glamour model Danielle Lloyd has faced criticism after claiming it is ‘creepy’ for fathers to hug their older children in public. The 34-year-old mum-of-four said ‘it does feel awkward sometimes, especially for children who are going through puberty’.
A former commander in the Metropolitan Police has criticised Sir Craig Mackey for locking himself inside a car and watching one of his officers being murdered just yards away during last year’s Westminster terror attack.
I don’t think a day goes by when plastic pollution isn’t being mentioned. It’s the environmental issue of the moment. The poor old polar bears and the melting ice caps aren’t getting much of a look in any more.
A teaching assistant told the Labour Party conference that ‘a proper education’ system would stop children becoming criminals or Conservatives. What a ludicrous thing to say!
It’s been just over a week now since the sentencing of the men involved in the ‘trouble’ between fans when Plymouth visited Portsmouth back in April 2017. And I still can’t get my head around the sentences that were given out.
Frances O’Grady, TUC chief, has called on the government to take action and help people work less for more money. She made a speech at their annual conference to push for a four-day working week.
Plus-size ‘model’ Tess Holliday has appeared on the front cover of Cosmopolitan. If you don’t know her, the ‘plus-size’ description is doing her a favour. She’s more like a triple-plus size.
A bride-to-be has revealed she had to cancel her dream wedding because guests wouldn’t stump up the £896 she had asked from them to attend her nauseating nuptials.
I’m not a fan of Jamie Oliver – in fact I’m still waiting for him to make good on his promise to leave the country if we voted to leave the EU. But him being called out for racism for making ‘jerk’ chicken rice is absolute nonsense.
Staff at Gatwick Airport have been sent a memo which has banned them from calling people ‘love’ or ‘darling’ after receiving one complaint. Just one. Not 100. One.
The stabathon continues unabated in London with blood being spilt every day. Who’s to blame? And what can be done to stop it? The arguments rumble on as the bodies keep piling up.
A lot of themed cafés have opened in recent years – cat cafés, cereal cafés, crisp sandwich cafés. Another has just opened at Havant, a psychic cafe. Got to say, I didn’t see that one coming...
I’m pleased to see Portsmouth Water has said there are no plans to introduce a hosepipe ban following the one in Belfast and the one due to start in the north-west next week. Quite right too.
Home secretary Sajid Javid has visited Salisbury and Amesbury to check-out the locations of where the four people have been affected by the nerve agent Novichok.
