Spain's marchers are disgusted with the Government as Spain battles the austerity measures. However the wine industry is becoming a world leader.The UK austerity measures have allowed the BBC ever more opulence as they renew their carpets..... Tens of thousands of pounds will be spent re-vamping the sixth and seventh floors of New Broadcasting House with a design based around the style of EastEnders. Meanwhile, The Bank of England spent 7,990 on 756 bottles of champagne in 2013 ; a rise of 94 pe...
Mar 23, 2014
What is happening in UK schools? We're looking at Obesity as Coventry sees a 10-year-old who weighs 20 STONE-an unnamed Year 6 pupil tipped the scales at 19st 7lbs,- making him one of the heaviest children in the country. This is shown as another study shows that chewing food more slowly can prevent overeating and help shrink your waistline. We're told why fish will keep you active: Eating plenty in old age can reduce chances of medical or physical illness. C'mon kids. Get healthy. Indeed, what ...
Mar 15, 2014
Set agains the Crimean Crisis and the disappearance of a Malaysian jet near Vietnam,........ The Co-op is recommending that chief executive Euan Sutherland, who joined in May 2013 should get a package worth a total of £3.66million. Here we go yet again with Bankers, Meanwhile, just day after Immigration Minister James Brokenshire condemned the ‘wealthy metropolitan elite’ for using cheap labour, his boss confirmed that she employs a foreign home help. Estate Agents and MPs ready to keep us in th...
Mar 09, 2014
Fusilier Lee Rigby, 25, was 'mutilated, almost decapitated and murdered' by Michael Adebowale, 22, and Michael Adebolajo, 29, who ambushed him outside his barracks in Woolwich, South East London on May 22 last year.It's very difficult to not hate the perpetrators of such evil. RIP Lee Rigby. All this set against British soldiers being banned from training for snowy conditions at Norwegian base because health and safety rules deem it too COLD! Schoolboy, Henry Tattersal, hanged himself after runn...
Mar 01, 2014
Facebook has rejected calls to ban pages and videos linked to NekNomination. This follows tragic deaths when youngsters have been challenged friends to take part in this drinking craze 'Neknominate' This involves consuming an entire alcoholic drink in one go while taking part in a physical act, then nominating someone else to do the same. It is dangerous and all students need to think carefully before engaging in such activities. Whilst the UK is embroiled in the most horrendous weather ever see...
Feb 09, 2014
Some 686.600 households in Spain have now no income at all — not even social security. That is twice the figure seen in 2007, or before the crisis struck. We looked at the difficult times for the Spanish people without jobs. Meanwhile the UK has its dreadful weather to contend with. Also, UK schools struggling with cohesive policies as Riley Pearson was banned from Colnbrook C of E Primary School near Slough for four days after teachers found his packed lunch contravened their new healthy eating...
Feb 02, 2014
Wetherspoon's UK motorway pub promised to crack down on drink drivers but journalist man supped four pints before heading to carpark and no staff challenged him. Would they in any other situation? Meanwhile we go back to an event in 2011 when the MP for Cannock Chase said that he never went to the Frog & Roastbeef in Val Thorens. His claim is disproved by a picture, taken just outside and there are shades of a silly facy dress re-enactment of the Nazis. Could this be connected with another s...
Jan 26, 2014
Eric Hobsbawm died aged 95 in October 2012 He was one of Britain’s most eminent historians, but he was widely criticised for his defence of communist regimes. You might be surprised at how much money was in his will! In Sweden, an Asian motorist was eight times the drink-drive limit when breathalysed. He was let off after judge said alcohol affects ethnic groups differently! If this is one errant judgement then here is another. Raymond Hull from Springkell, Cumbria, claimed in court to have 22 c...
Jan 12, 2014
We're always reading about savage cuts in the NHS but NHS spending on management consultants has risen three-fold in a year. In the past six months, £40million has been paid out by various health service organisations, compared to £15million for the whole of last year. What is really happening? Whilst this money is being spent four in ten casualty departments are hiring family doctors to help deal with the soaring numbers of patients. These doctors are already paid an average £104,000 a year and...
Jan 05, 2014
Maggie Atkinson, the Children's Commissioner for England, says pets and adults will continue to receive better protection unless parents smacking their children is outlawed.This woman and her like are helping to cause the misery which has now allowed children to become monsters. Get rid of this silliness..Punish the bad parents. These are the parents who are NOT checking their children. So what do parents do? An unnamed single mother has had both of her sons removed after posting an advert on Cr...
Dec 29, 2013
There is a new feeling of Government Restriction in the new Citizenjingless' Safety Law in Spain. The Interior Ministry said the Government considered it was a good time to revise and improve it.Deputy Prime Minister, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, said the new law would guarantee the maximum respect for the rights and freedom. Marks and Spencer's in the UK has granted checkout workers in more than 700 stores permission to politely decline to serve customers for religious reasons. Is this a fair po...
Dec 22, 2013
The gap between Spain's richest and poorest is now the widest in Europe with some three million people living in extreme poverty, a recent study reveals. You read this then you are told a total of 100 Spanish bankers earn more than a million € a year. The number puts Spain as the fifth highest EU country with the most millionaire bankers. Meanwhile a book by married Italian author Costanza Miriano titled 'Cásate y sé sumisa – Get Married and Be Submissive – was published by the Catholic Arbishop...
Dec 15, 2013
After our normal banter and welcome to our stations around the world we looked at the Spanish news. Another priest is bringing the catholic Church into disrepute. Child safety campaigners against Porn criticised Tesco after it emerged that they are the only major mobile operator not to have installed parental controls on their network. Meanwhile, The porn industry is to stop filming yet again after another performer tested positive for HIV, it was revealed in Los Angeles on Friday. Nelson Mandel...
Dec 08, 2013
A Spanish woman has claimed to be the owner of the Sun. Meanwhile, in the real world, Spain's unemployment has topped 6 million. Parents of primary school children in Staffordshire were ordered to send their children to a workshop on Islam or have them labelled as racist for the rest of their school career. Teenage boys and girls at Moulton School, Northampton are sharing the same toilets....... and teenagers with 'raging hormones' may shift their amorous liasons away from the bike sheds and ont...
Nov 23, 2013
The UK Government should consider lowering the age of sexual consent to 15 a leading public health expert has said. Professor John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, says changing the law would 'draw a line in the sand' against sex at 14 or younger. He is right to say he believes society sends 'confused' signals about when sex is permitted and has called on a national debate on the issue. From those who bothered to comment Steve in London takes a firm stand saying, "We should be ...
Nov 17, 2013
Some members of Top Of The Pops dance group Pan’s People say they were preyed on backstage by ‘slimy and repulsive’ Jimmy Savile. Although I can't remember anyone coming forward at the time they watched in horror as young girls lined up outside his van. Did anyone say anything? The dancers ‘hated’ the show’s ‘creepy’ host but say they were ‘bulldozed into being nice to him because he was extremely popular and powerful at the Beeb’. I wonder why nothing was said! A convicted paedophile serving ti...
Oct 13, 2013
Is the monarchy really changing? On October 10th Buckingham Palace hosted its first official game of football between two Sunday League amateur sides. Ptince William had organised the match to mark the 150th anniversary of the Football Association. He is president. The match involved two of the oldest amateur clubs in England: Civil Service FC – the sole surviving club from the 11 that met to found the FA in 1863 – and Polytechnic FC, formed in 1875. Palace staff had spent weeks preparing the pi...
Oct 10, 2013
The Queen is set to receive an inflation-busting 22 per cent;pay rise over two years, according to new official figures. This is set against another picture where The British Red Cross is to start distributing food to hard-up families for the first time since the Second World War as it warned that thousands face cuts to their household budgets. It is also interesting;how the papers are trying to create confusion? The recession caused a surge in binge drinking among the unemployed, new research s...
Oct 10, 2013
We had a look back at the argument between the Daily Mail and Ed Miliband after the newspaper had printed an artcle saying his dad had hated Britain. Ed Miliband, quite rightly, sprang to the defence of his father and showed how he had fought for Britain. New policies in UK Education stated how worried they were regarding harmful stresses put on children for constant testing. We lloked at our own education. There's a story about a bloke of 24 who was called a boy-racer for his dri9fting activiti...
Oct 10, 2013
Women are to be banned from claiming free breast enlargements on the NHS. This will be part of a new spending crackdown. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his advisers are drawing up rules which will prevent women from claiming ‘psychological’ need in order to receive cosmetic enhancement at the taxpayers’ expense. Officials believe that an increasing number of women are using the system creativel to secure enhancements which can cost up to £10,000 privately. An article by Fiona Govan explained h...
Oct 06, 2013
Sex Box-a new TV show ........Caroline in France ..Porn, plain and simple and they may show it to their kids?! Words fail me. Most kids don’t even want to hear mention that their parents still ’do it’ let alone watch! In the UK papers pupils have to wear hijabs in and OUT of class for the first time at a state-backed school in Blackburn....800-pupil Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School where, we're informed, students already have to dress in long purple tunics over black trousers to ensure flesh i...
Sep 30, 2013
Colorado residents are bracing themselves for further flooding and devastation, with more storms due to hit on Sunday. More than 500 people are missing and at least four people have died, with another victim believed to be dead, after flash floods. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those suffering.Here in Spain the Catalan Region has shown great support for independence but the Prime Minister Rajoy will not allow a referendum. On the Costa del Sol a bus driver has been seen talking on his ph...
Sep 15, 2013
We really found Syria heavy going this week.. It is so difficult to understand why Obama is pushing so hard and I found an article by Liam Fox who had been the Defence Secretary in the UK. He talked about ten really dangerous topics. He said this about Pakistan.'When economic and government systems fail, anarchy or terrorism can follow all too easily. We are already battling these forces in places such as Somalia and Yemen, but one country stands out in terms of the risks it poses: Pakistan'.He ...
Sep 08, 2013
Did the UK make a huge mistake in joining the Common Market and turning its back on its traditional markets in 1973? Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, thinks it was a mistake. The housing market in the UK is proving most difficult and there are many new tenant hotspots. Where does the policy need to go next? There is even a call to build more bungalows .... Meanwhile the corruption persists around the UK and Spain as the questions are raised over the pay-offs in the NHS.
Aug 26, 2013
The British Ambassador to Lima, James Dauris. is quoted as saying ‘Peru is now the major producer of cocaine in the world and more than 70 per cent goes to Britain. But only 20 per cent pure cocaine ends up with the user because of the way it is cut down the chain.....‘Veterinary anaesthetics that kill worms in animals are used to dilute it.' This is set against the background of two young ladies apprehended as they were set to carry drugs on a flight from Peru to Madrid. A man was out walking a...
Aug 18, 2013
THE British Prime Minister has been forced to step into the most heated dispute between Gibraltar and Spain in over a decade.David Cameron insists threats to impose a border tax, a no-fly zone and a tax investigation into thousands of Gibraltarians with property in Spain was of ;serious concern;.The row comes after weeks of mounting tensions and, in particular, Gibraltar's decision to create an artificial reef just off the Rock.The installation of a series of concrete blocks aimed to conserve fi...
Aug 10, 2013
Little Daniel Pelka weighed just 1st 9lbs when he died in March last year in Coventry in the UK. During his final months, his mother and her evil lover starved him, forced him to perform punishment exercises, locked him in a tiny room, poisoned him with salt and held him under cold water until he lost consciousness. As the authorities in Coventry investigate whether more could have been done to save Daniel, it has emerged that teachers Coventry’s Little Heath Primary, were offered counselling. A...
Aug 04, 2013
Police in Spain have accused the driver of a train that derailed in northwestern Spain, killing at least 80 people, of ;reckless homicide; the country's interior minister said Saturday. The judge has until Sunday evening local time to decide whether to press formal charges against Jose Francisco Garzon, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters in Santiago de Compostela;The ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, Justin Welby, yesterday ordered a probe to discover how the Church of England came to...
Jul 27, 2013
The heatwave is creating havoc in the UK although Spain is also very hot. The NHS is under attack and we remember the changes throughout the years. A Beer drinking competition in Spain sheds light on the fact that Spain, in most senses, doesn't have the same social problems with drink. Alcohol related problems are also adding tothe number of early deaths in young women in the UK. Finally, it's not all one way traffic as gangs of ·European drivers are making life exceedingly difficult for British...
Jul 20, 2013
The Poet and Reggae star, Benjamin Zephaniah, wrote an article in The Guardian saying anyone who attended the San Fermin Festival of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona in Northern Spain would have blood on their hands. Yesterday, dozens were injured following a horrific pile-up at the infamous Spanish bull running festival. One Irish victim is suffering from traumatic asphyxia caused by crushing. Runners taking part in the San Fermin festival in Pamplona were trampled on in a massive crush as ...
Jul 13, 2013
