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65First warm day of spring
The first day of decent weather in Scotland is something to celebrate. This has been the first warm day since the harsh winter here in the UK and the first thing you notice is children. They are everywhere...
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60Safety and Kids
Last week in South London Oliver and Gillian Schonrock were warned by their kid’s school’s headmaster that they must not let their five year old and eight year old children cycle alone to school or he...
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59Raoul Moat, Legend?
If you missed the news coverage lately, I will bring you up to speed. Raoul Moat was an alleged wife-beating, child-harming, policeman-attacking, shotgun-wielding man who hid from the police recently and ended up shooting himself after an armed...
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59Guilty and Anonymous
Jon Venables, one of the killers of three year old Jamie Bulger has been jailed for two years after admitting downloading and distributing indecent images of children. Now 27, Venables was 10 when he and...
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60Broken Britain
There is nothing more distressing to society when their very young turn out to be torturers. This past week in the South Yorkshire village of Edlington, ripples of horror and shock ripped through the...
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56The Children of Haiti
The ten missionaries from a Christian group based in Idaho who are alleged to have abducted 33 children from the chaotic country of Haiti have been charged with child trafficking. Haitian officials said...
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65Busy Streets not safe
In the past month in Glasgow, there have been two serious sexual attacks on young women walking out late at night in the busy streets of the city. All the attacks involved the woman being dragged up a quiet...
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65Do we ignore violence against kids?
Last week in London I witnessed a middle aged mother slap her toddler viciously hard on the legs when I was on the underground train. The mother looked in her 40s and wasn’t what the press like to call ...
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68Gun Crime in the UK
Inches of newspaper columns over the world are dedicated to the horrific shooting spree in Cumbria, 12 people dead and many injured. So anything I write will be second hand and no new ‘news’ will come of...
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63Anyone but England
Anyone but England… is the latest press barrage being foisted on the Scots during this World Cup mania. Apparently there are groups of Scots selling tee shirts with ABE on it to show that, during the...
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