Dull, wet and nippy at the Castle this morn, as I sit here
watching the Japanese Grand Prix his Maj has jumped through the window and
landed in my lap-he is soaking wet and cold so the Angus body warmer is working
well.
Piss Poor Policy U-turn Cam’s 'can-do' Britain has 20,000
fewer companies.
David Cameron's claim to be the champion of new business was
undermined yesterday as new figures showed the number of firms in Britain fell
by 20,000 during his first year as Prime Minister.
Mr Cameron used his party conference speech last week to
promise a plan that would do "everything we can to help businesses start,
grow, thrive, succeed". In the wake of his speech, the Federation of Small
Businesses demanded "clear action to match the rhetoric"; while the manufacturer’s
organisation EEF warned promoting growth is "now a matter of
urgency".
This week there is expected to be a series of announcements
from the Department for Business, the Treasury and No 10 on job creation,
particularly in manufacturing, which lost 4,800 businesses alone. In March
2010, there were a total of 2.1 million businesses with VAT or PAYE
registrations but a year later it had fallen to 2.08 million, according to the
ONS.
The only announcement I want to hear is that the Millionaires
Club Coalition has resigned....
And:
Thanks to the arseholes at the GMC
A surgeon who is facing claims he botched 85 operations is
still working for the NHS.
The hospital trust where Manjit Bhamra worked has already
paid out £1 million to 10 patients whose surgery went badly wrong.
Now it is facing a further 85 complaints – in what could
become one of Britain's biggest clinical negligence claims against a single
surgeon.
Mr Bhamra has twice been referred to the General Medical
Council but is now working at a different hospital which said it had "no
concerns" about him.
The orthopaedic surgeon, 55, is accused of leaving hip
patients in such pain that they were housebound and unable to work, with one
man forced to sleep in a chair at night because he was unable to lie down.
Payments of between £1,750 and £500,000 have already been
made in ten cases treated by Mr Bhamra at Rotherham Hospital, South Yorkshire –
though liability was not accepted in all cases.
A spokesman for Rotherham Hospital said the trust had
"a robust procedure in place in which to fully investigate any complaints
that are received".
Tim Hendra, Medical Director at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS
Trust, which runs Pinderfield hospital said that delivering safe high quality
care was the hospital's top priority, and that all medical staff were subject
to a robust recruitment process and routine monitoring.
Bollocks...
It now appears that the stone Numptys didn’t get far, as
they were forced to abandon their haul on the M25 and flee after their transit
van collapsed under the weight.
Sharon Gould, 52, from Spindlewoods, Tadworth, was
horrified to return home on September 21 to find 120 York stones, dating back
to 1910, had been taken while she was out to lunch with her mother.
After the back-breaking work of digging up the
stones and loading them onto their white Ford transit van the thieves must have
thought that driving them away would be a doddle.
But they had not reckoned on the impact of three
tonnes of stone on a van.
As they drove down the M25 a tyre blew out and the
suspension collapsed.
Forced to abandon the vehicle on the hard shoulder
between the junctions 9 and 10, the two men were last seen running away into
nearby fields after removing the vehicle's number plates in a bid to avoid
being traced.
The 2011 North American Wife Carrying Championship was held
yesterday.
Wife Carrying teams are comprised of a male and female
competitor, however, the female does not need to be the legal wife of the male
nor does she have to let her male teammate carry her. Teams have the option to
have the male carried by the female if they so choose.
So it isn’t really a “Wife carrying” contest then, still the
results are here.
And several Chinese online stores are offering die-hard
Apple fans the opportunity to buy the much-anticipated next-generation iPhone
5. There's just one catch -- the US tech giant hasn't released it yet.
The fake smart phones are available for as little as 200 Yuan
($31) on hugely popular websites such as China's largest online marketplace
Taobao.com, which has 370 million registered users.
Some of the smart phones offered are billed as
"HiPhone 5" in a bid to avoid accusations of counterfeiting, but
photos of the devices show the Apple logo on the back of the phones and
"iPhone 5G" printed in the battery compartment.
Even before Tuesday's launch of the iPhone 4S at Apple
headquarters in California, Chinese authorities had seized fake versions of the
US firm's supposed latest offering.
Commerce department inspectors in the south eastern city of
Fuzhou found 61 iPhone 5s on sale that featured new capabilities such as dual
sim cards, the official Xinhua news agency reported earlier this week.
Vendors said the phones had been manufactured in the
southern boomtown of Shenzhen, the report said. The Fuzhou trade and commerce
bureau was unavailable for comment.
Got to be a lot cheaper than Apple, and they will probably
work better.....
And finally:
Members of a golf club in Australia have something more to
worry about than just their swing - playing on what's thought to be the world's
first shark-infested course.
The sharks got onto the Queensland golf course when it
flooded some years ago after a river broke its banks.
Golfers often pause during games for a few minutes to see if
they can spot the sharks before they head off to the next tee.
The sharks, which are between 8 and 10ft long, have proved
quite a hit at corporate events and their fins have even been spotted during
wedding ceremonies held on the course.
Half a dozen man-eating Bull sharks live in the lake in the
centre of the course where their fins poking through the water have become a
regular sight.
Hope the Japanese don’t read this...
That’s it: I’m orf to read
the green blueprint.
And today’s thought: "Marriage is a wonderful
invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit." - Billy
Connolly
Angus
2 comments:
It must have been a very long lunch for that many stones to have been lifted!!
bet the next one is quick CherryPie:)
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