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.
I wrote a column a couple of weeks ago, before the World Cup started, about Portsmouth being the most expensive place to watch the tournament in the UK and how the average person watching it would spend on average £1,252 during the competition.
A primary school in Stoke-on-Trent has said it may install a washing machine because according to the headteacher there is a rise in pupils attending school with ‘washing and hygiene issues’.
Seventeen-year-old Kathryn Osgood, from Bedhampton, has won Miss Portsmouth and with enough votes in her heat will be able to progress through to the Miss England finals. Good luck to her, I hope she makes it.
Dave Humphries, the police Inspector for Havant and Waterlooville took to Twitter to express his anger at the poster campaign by cosmetic chain Lush which decked windows in more than 100 of its shops with posters depicting a policeman with the words ‘Paid to Lie’ and fake police tape bearing the words ‘Crossed the Line’.
The whole debate about drugs – whether you think it’s cool, boring or stupid – when you have young people dying in the circumstances that happened at Mutiny Festival then it’s all irrelevant. Everyone agrees it’s tragic.
According to the Resolution Foundation – a ’prominent’ Think Tank – every 25-year-old in the country should be given £10,000 to close the widening economic gap between generations. What rubbish. I think the Think Tank needs to think more.
Just like the Charlie Gard case last year there was another stand-off between hospital and parents as Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool wanted to turn off the life support of terminally ill Alfie Evans and his parents who wished to take him to Italy for further treatment.
So, the US had just said it was leaving Syria, effectively allowing Assad free reign. What is Assad’s reaction? Drop chemical weapons on people and bring America back again. It doesn’t make sense. What has he got to gain by doing this?
