More than a lot of skywater, just as much lack of warm, even
less atmospheric movement and sod all solar stuff at the Castle this November
morn.
Orf out to somewhere to do something later and his Maj has
discovered the joy of snail stalking.
The CPS (crap prosecuting service) has decided that the
self-styled adviser to former defence secretary Liam Fox will not face criminal
charges.
Adam Werritty was under investigation after describing
himself as Mr Fox's (who resigned last year after being found guilty of
breaching the ministerial code over his relationship with Mr Werritty, whom he
met 40 times in the Ministry of Defence and on trips abroad) adviser on
business cards and allegedly accepting donations. Andrew Penhale from the Crown
Prosecution Service said: "We have advised City of London Police there is
insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction."
So the old it’s not what you know but who you know still
reigns supreme...
Almost two thirds of NHS trusts using the Liverpool Care
Pathway have received payouts totalling millions of pounds for hitting targets
related to its use.
Apparently figures, obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act, reveal the full scale of financial inducements for the first
time.
They suggest that about 85 per cent of trusts have now
adopted the regime, which can involve the removal of hydration and nutrition from
dying patients.
More than six out of 10 of those trusts - just over half of
the total - have received or are due to receive financial rewards for doing so
amounting to at least £12million.
At many hospitals more than 50 per cent of all patients who died
had been placed on the pathway and in one case the proportion of foreseeable
deaths on the pathway was almost nine out of 10.
The LCP was originally developed at the Royal Liverpool
University Hospital and the city’s Marie Curie hospice to ease suffering in
dying patients, setting out principles for how they to be treated.
It involves the withdrawal of treatments or tests from
patients which doctors believe could cause distress and do more harm than good.
Last night the Department of Health insisted that the
payments could help ensure that people were “treated with dignity in their
final days and hours”.
Load of old Bollocks-notice the word “could”?
Authorities on the West Coast were embroiled in a seriously
nutty mystery: the disappearance of 80,000 pounds of walnuts, stolen in two instalments,
from Northern California.
The walnuts were first reported missing Friday by workers at
a freight brokerage firm. Workers called the Tehama County Sheriff's Office to
say that a truckload of walnuts, purchased by Seattle Company F.C. Bloxom and
Co., never reached their destination in Miami.
The incident was then matched to a similar theft a few days
earlier. A heist on Oct. 23 involved 40,000 pounds of walnuts, which were
picked up in Los Molinos, Calif., but never arrived in Texas, where they were
expected, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth notes.
According to the Redding Searchlight, authorities believe
the two crimes could be the work of the same individual-- a "suspicious
delivery driver" with a tall build and strong Russian accent.
The man is said to be 6 feet 2 inches tall and driving a
white semi. The 80,000 pounds of walnuts were valued at about $300,000.
Ah; the old squirrel disguised as a Russian ploy eh-it’s
been a long time since I had a white semi.....
Marcus Lamm, 21, tried to squeeze through the closing
barriers across the railway in Manningtree, Essex, But he got stuck behind a
slow agricultural vehicle and did not make it across before the barriers
closed, trapping him on the tracks.
The First bus was empty, apart from the driver, but had only
just dropped off children from local schools.
Lamm, of Willow Way, Jaywick, admitted driving without due
care and attention when he appeared at Colchester Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Representing himself, he said: "I had been sitting
waiting for the train to come past with the barrier down.
"It came up and I followed with the traffic that was
moving.
"It was safe at the time. I didn't see any lights as I
went through but obviously they were flashing.
"I don't know what happened between me moving off and
getting stuck."
Lamm, a former Tendring Technology College student, said he
has lost his job with First as a result of the incident on July 19. He is now a
bus driver with New Horizon Travel, in Frating.
Oh well; that’s alright then, as long as the cupid stunt is
still driving buses.
A Massachusetts fisherman has caught a creepy-looking
lobster that's coloured to match Halloween.
The New England Aquarium says the 1-pound female lobster has
an orange side and a black side, with the colours split perfectly down the
middle.
Marine officials say such coloration is estimated to occur
once in every 50 million lobsters.
The fisherman who caught the seasonally coloured crustacean
in a trap last week is from Beverly, a seaside community 20 miles northeast of
Boston.
The rare lobster is known as a split. Aquarium officials
said Wednesday splits have been caught in Maine, Rhode Island and Nova Scotia
in the last 10 years.
Schizophrenic crustacean...
And finally:
Some tasty looking
outfits, including a naughty but nice bra, were showcased at a chocolate show
in Paris.
They also featured
chocolate truffle wings and a kimono sprinkled with confectionery flowers.
The delicious
dresses were made for the 18th annual Salon Du Chocolat trade fair.
Fashion designers
and chocolatiers joined forces inspired by the theme “The New Worlds of
Chocolate” to create the outfits
Num-num- num, and the frocks aren’t bad either...
And today’s thought:
When you said do you want some nuts, I never expected THAT!!
Angus
