facebook murder

In the news there was this murder where this womans husband killed his wife because she was on facebook to much. the worlds going mad. The article says "The 31-year-old man first stabbed and then strangled Hayley Jones to death at the home they shared with their four children.
The trial heard Ms Jones had changed her status to 'single' on the social networking website less than two weeks before the killing". Social networking is taking over our lives as great as it is. This story is abit of a shock to me as i couldnt belive that a man with 4 kids would do anything like that to his wife because of her facebook page. The man deserves to be in prision for life. "Lewis claimed he was trimming his finger nails with a kitchen knife when he tried to "touch" his 26-year-old partner's sleeping bag with the tip of the blade out of frustration after a row.
The knife pierced two sleeping bags and went through three layers of clothing Ms Jones had been wearing while trying to sleep on a sofa. Her ribcage prevented it from penetrating any further. He said he later found himself with his hands around Ms Jones' throat and only released his grip when he heard one of his sons calling out from upstairs". This acually made me quite angry. who cuts there fingernails with a kitchen knife!! and who "finds" them selves with there hands round someones throat!! this story just shows how much technoligy is taking over our lives and i know that this isnt the first case where someone has been killed because of the internet.

Postal strike!

This week postal workers have threatened to go on a national strike over pay rates and job cuts, in the previous week there have been several more local strikes but the workers are still unhappy and said " it was prepared to call off all strike action if the Royal Mail agreed to stop all redundancies."If a national strike were to go ahead the 95 million a day letters and parcels delivered by the royal mail would stand still and chaos would be brought to many companies and buisnesses nationwide.

Fifth British soldier killed in Afghan region.

Fifth British soldier killed in Afghan region 'cleared of Taleban'


A British soldier died of gunshot wounds in Helmand province today, the fifth to be killed in the district of Babaji since the end of an operation to clear it of Taleban fighters.The soldier from the 2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, who was serving with The Light Dragoons battlegroup, was shot while on foot patrol.He was the 214th British soldier to die in Afghanistan since 2001, and the 77th to be killed this year. The push, which ended on July 25, lasted five weeks and involved 3,000 troops. Ten British soldiers, including four in Babaji, were killed as three battlegroups fought their way through central Helmand. British military sources said that more than 500 Taleban fighters had been killed or driven from the area. However, since July 25, there have been numerous attacks in or near Babaji. Five soldiers have died in the district, and four more were killed in the area north of Lashkar Gah, which was also part of the Panther’s Claw operation.

Wacko Jacko Dies at 50 - ITV Interview with Martin Bashir a few years ago.

When Michael Jackson died, all hell broke loose. People had been queueing for hours to buy tickets for his tour 'This Is It' which was to go on for many months from the end of 2009 through to 2010, his children were growing up and the tour was partly so that they could see him at work. Then, on the 25th of June 2009, radio's, televisions, newspapers and magazines immediately began spreading the shocking news. A lot of people thought badly of Michael Jackson, which I thought was rather unfair. Quite a number of years ago, Jackson agreed to do a one off TV Interview with Martin Bashir for ITV. Martin portrayed Michael as a person living in the past and someone with problems that he needed to get rid of. In one part of the filming, Micahel described himself as Peter Pan - The boy who never grew up while they were walking around his theme park; he also climbed trees and read childrens books. Martin was overall rather unfair on Michael and when they did a real sit-down interview, the questions asked were biased and unfair. Parts of the interview were also cut which made Michael look bad. I thought this was really unfair and injust. Michael was a very shy man who didn't like people to know things about him, yet he allowed one interview to happen and allowed Martin in to his life and in to the life of his children (at the time the children were younger and 'Blanket' was still a baby, therefore still masked). I thought the way Martin acted was really out of order saying all these things about Michael and the actual TV programme can be found on YouTube.
I then did a bit more research on this issue and found a great rebuttle video titled 'Take Two: The Footage You Were Never Meant To See' This really made me smile... I was glad that someone was standing up for Michael because so many bad things have been said about him, especially as the charges against him for child molestation were included in Martins betrayal of a show. I understand that people are intitled to their own opinion, but sometimes people don't realise that what they think is their opinion is actually the opinion of the media trying to sell juicy (and sometimes untrue) gossip. It's a shame that people believe everything they read in the news and it's unfortunate that the media has hypnotised so many people. People like Michael Jackson were inspirations, so I will leave you with one of his many quotes If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

10,000 petition to stop SAT's

10,000 people have signed a petition calling for the end of SAT's. The petition urges the Government to abolish Natiional Curriculum tests for 7-11 year olds. Many are saying they're bad for families and parents and children and they put too much stress on the children while they are still young. Well, I ain't even 16 and I'm having to do exams...so I say get rid of them all!!!

Civil Liberties saved!

At last someone has noticed that it's wrong to break the Human Rights Act..

Alan Johnson released today people in the UK bar foreign workers will not have to have I.D. Cards at all!

I.D. cards are going to be given to people on a voluntary basis and will not become compulsory when at least 80% of the British population has a card which is good news knowing the controversy which Liberty,the human rights pressure group called a thing that "will cost both our privacy and our wallets dearly" which is good news for adults paying tax which has already cost them 6 billion pounds and us who will not need new eyeballs if we lose the card due to retina imaging.

Compulsory I.D. Cards are ditched which they should have been ages ago ..A triumph for the Conservatives and The Lib Dems who have made Labour do the most expensive U-turn in history due to their resistance of the I.D. card proposal.

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Victoria Caswell.

BNP leader pelted with eggs

The BNP's victory in the European election has shocked many people and provoked a strong response from many, including these protesters outside parliament yesterday.