This country is not where the majority of woman are a size 8 or less, underweight and around six foot tall; as these so-called overpaid supermodels are. The clothes they are made to wear on these catwalks are laughable. The average clothes size is around 14/16 yet these designers do not cater for the majority of woman. There is no ...

In Newcastle city centre at Christmas, the usual lights and visual effects are hung up from the top of lamp posts. Except not one image depicts Christmas, birth of Jesus, nor Mary and Joseph, nor the Three Wise Men.  Instead, images that stand for Winter.  I wonder why???

I assumed that if a crime is committed and all proof is gathered beyond reasonable doubt, they are tried and sent to prison, end of.  Yet judges, especially crimes against children like Baby P (I call it murder) do not give the appropriate sentences. Benefit fraud committed by well-off people are not punished where it hurts the most - ...

As  I was growing up in the 60s/70s, I watched James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Lawrence Olivier etc in war films etc and smoking was taken for granted. Relatives smoked. There were cigarettes forever advertised yet none of us as children ever thought of taking the habit up. We did not live in the 'Nanny state' then.  Most of my ...

That senior citizen who took on a robber in a betting shop while others just stood by and watched, makes me wonder. They all could have jumped on the robber but didn't. The senior citizen did what he knew was the right thing to do but the others did not have the guts. 

john e: Morning Liza, yes, there can still be a vote of 'No Confidence' but Brown payedoff the rebels on his back bench and the lastone failed, but only just.   He told them that they would be like Turkeys voting fpr an early Thanksgiving, ie vote against him andhe will call an election and a hundred or so of them will be ...

john e: Morning Liza, yes, there can still be a vote of 'No Confidence' but Brown payedoff the rebels on his back bench and the lastone failed, but only just.   He told them that they would be like Turkeys voting fpr an early Thanksgiving, ie vote against him andhe will call an election and a hundred or so of them will be ...

TV needs to clean up it's act, especially children's programmes.

rosiet2008: raging: I will garauntee you one thing Rosie - no-one ever became a Nurse because of the Salary! £20K p.a is not a great deal these days but you seem to think it motivation enough for a vocation. This is the point. Nursing is a vocation and most will choose it because they have that kind of personality, one that has a desire to ...

Maybe it is a co-incidence but everything to do with marriage, family, tradition, English, community spirit/support and decency appears to be interferred with faceless quangos. It only happens in England. I cannot see the tossing of the caber being banned in Scotland by the so-called Health and Safety brigade. The local fetes are disappearing ...