The Thoughts Of Vicious Sid

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30.10.12
Clattenburg is Marked down as Utd star of the future
IF it goes on like this, Howard Webb will lose his place in the Manchester United side to Mark Clattenburg. Very harsh, perhaps. But not totally unfair.
It’s a sentiment a few others may well be sharing this morning after United escaped from Stamford Bridge yesterday with their first win there in a decade.
Manager Alex Ferguson has moaned for years that United never get anything at Chelsea except a raw deal.
Twice in the last few years alone he has seen his side depart empty-handed after Martin Atkinson blundered in giving free-kicks which led to goals that turned out to be Chelsea winners.
After United, for a change, got away with daylight robbery, Ferguson said: “We have had some shocking decisions down here over the years.”
There were more of them yesterday. This time, though, they were in United’s favour and went some way towards making the deeply suspicious Scot feel that, maybe, the world is not always against him and his lovely boys.
He will have got this unlikely sensation for the first time last season when United came back to share the points after trailing 3-0 at half-time.
Now, for the second successive season, he was able to leave Stamford Bridge with something other than the hump.
For that he can thank his new mate Clattenburg, who came up with the sort of United-friendly decisions we always thought to be the exclusive territory of the previously mentioned Webb.
All in all, it was a staggeringly inept performance from a man claimed to be our second-best match official.
It would then get worse when Clattenburg was reported to the FA by Chelsea for twice using ‘inappropriate language’ towards their players.
Refereeing in this country has been a disgrace for so many years that it was only going to be a matter of time before they became the great talking point once more.
In a way, perhaps, we should thank them as I’m not sure there’s much left to wring out of a race debate that both sides have grown increasingly weary of.
But that doesn’t excuse the manner in which the appalling Clattenburg ruined one of the season’s great matches yesterday.
A capacity crowd and millions at home had been swept along on a carousel of thrills, spills and emotions as the European champions locked horns with the latest team to come off the Old Trafford conveyor belt.
They had seen Robin van Persie power United into a 2-0 lead inside the opening 12 minutes as the visitors attacked what they deemed the weak point in the Chelsea defence — England left-back Ashley Cole.
Well, if not Cole then certainly Chelsea’s left flank, where both Oscar and Eden Hazard were giving Cole no cover whatsoever.
Twice, United broke down the left and twice the ball was cut back for Van Persie to hammer home. But Chelsea fought back with guts and style.
A perfectly-struck Juan Mata free-kick — after Wayne Rooney had clipped Hazard’s ankles when the Belgian had the cheek to nick the ball off old spudface — made it 2-1 just before the break. A powerful Ramires header eight minutes into the second-half then made it all-square.
No one, not even the United fans, could deny Chelsea hadn’t earned it. Everything had been set up for a magical, pulsating last half hour.
Enter the clod-hopping Clattenburg in the 63rd minute.
OK, we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt over the first red card that reduced Chelsea to 10 men. Not that I want to.
But people keep banging on about how rules are rules and if a forward (Ashley Young) bites the dust when pursued by a defender (Branislav Ivanovic) and if that defender is the last defender even though contact is minimal then... on yer bike, son.
Yet there should be some leeway for refs in ‘last defender’ situations where there is neither shirt-tugging, tripping or anything out of the pages of the ‘Sly Art of Defending’.
Perhaps, in cases like this, there should be a case for just a yellow.
But it was the second red card — five minutes later — that condemned Clattenburg as the villain of the piece.
OK, Chelsea striker Fernando Torres has earned a reputation over the last few seasons as a play actor.
But for him to have received a second yellow for allegedly diving over a Jonny Evans tackle was a nonsense. Many will say the Spaniard had it coming as he could well have been sent off for an earlier throat-high tackle on Tom Cleverley.
But that is not the point. The point is, in that case, Clattenburg made two decisions about Torres and got them both wrong.
He and his linesman then put the icing on the cake.
They did so by failing to detect that Javier Hernandez was offside as the Mexican substitute scored United’s 75th-minute winner.
Then came the later allegations of ‘inappropriate language’ aimed at two players, one believed to be Jon Obi Mikel.
Not a great day for Clattenburg who has got referees right back where they don’t want to be.
All over the back pages.

vicious.sid: All true, I'm afraid. PL referees' egos are becoming as big as the players (and, trust me, that's BIG!). Clattenburg totally ruined a fantastic match that had me on the edge of my seat, even though I'm a neutral. All those fans that paid a hell of a lot of money to be there must feel very, very cheated. All thanks to him!

30.10.12
David Moyes’ girl: I’m surprised dad didn’t headbutt Luis Suarez
EVERTON manager David Moyes' daughter has slammed Liverpool's Luis Suarez for taunting her dad - tweeting: "Very surprised my dad didn't just nut Suarez."
Twitter rage ... Lauren Moyes Her outburst came after the Uruguayan ace celebrated his first goal in Sunday's 2-2 draw by sprinting towards the opposition's manager and diving to the floor.
Moyes had previously criticised Suarez for going down too easily, saing: "I think he has got history," and adding: "It will turn the supporters away from football if they think people are conning their way to results."
But while the Everton boss managed to keep his cool in the face of Suarez' cheeky celebration, his girl Lauren quickly saw red.
And while she deleted her message an hour later, by that time it had been re-tweeted more than 700 times.
She did add an apology however, saying: "Sorry if that last tweet offended anyone #caught up in the moment."
Perhaps she had been cheered by her dad's side banging in two goals inside 15 minutes to draw level with their Merseyside rivals.

vicious.sid: It didn't offend me, I wanted to nut my tv!!! He is an annoying person.

30.10.12
Teacher attack left girl, 4, brain damaged
A TWISTED teacher left a little girl brain damaged after a horrifying classroom attack - which was recorded on CCTV. The shocking images of the woman teacher tossing a four-year-old little girl to the ground were captured on film.
The video shows the cruel classroom boss kicking the child while she lay on the floor, before picking her up again and dropping her face first onto the ground.
Local media said the youngster, who is mentally disabled, slipped into unconsciousness. Reports say she is now severely brain damaged.
The teacher who initially denied any wrong doing, has now been prosecuted.
Video of the attack emerged after two similar shocking incidents in China surfaced last week.

vicious.sid: Even I am speechless . . .

30.10.12
Woman raped in alley by stranger on night out was sexually assaulted AGAIN by passer-by as she lay helpless
Mustafa Yussuf, 21, was the first man to attack the woman. He was jailed for seven years for the rape
A woman who was dragged into an alleyway and raped after a night out was subjected to a second horrifying ordeal by another man as she lay recovering from the attack.
Mustafa Yussuf was the first to prey on the woman as she walked through Manchester city centre on New year's Eve, marching her into Church Street car park and raping her in a nearby lane.
After the assault the then 20-year-old fled the scene, leaving the woman helpless.
It was then that, instead of assisting her, another man pounced on the woman and raped her.
The distressing details of the double rape emerged as Yussuf, now 21, from Manchester, was jailed for seven years for the attack.
He claimed to have had a consensual encounter with the woman but denied rape.
But a jury at Manchester Crown Court trial rejected his account and found him guilty.
Judge Martin Steiger QC, sentencing, said he ‘hadn’t the slightest doubt’ that Yussuf was ‘perfectly aware’ the woman was too drunk to consent to any activity.
The court heard that the ‘mature’ woman had drunk to excess because of relationship problems, with CCTV showing she was unable to stand.
She was refused re-entry to the nightclub when she asked to be allowed in to search for her lost handbag.
In the aftermath of the double-rape attack she needed strangers’ help to get home and she was unable to remember what had happened to her for two hours.

vicious.sid: What the hell is happening to this world? Just when you think that nothing could get worse, it's all been done, then you get this piece of filth that would attack a helpless person who has already been attacked. Mankind is going backwards. More and more people are becoming uncaring and selfish but to do something like this - I just can't take it in, I can't believe that anyone could be this evil. I am just stunned.

Steve: So, seven years for rape and out in maybe three. And the poor girl by then will have forgotten what happened? The courts suck, 25 years for rape and let the scum rot in prison. He was lucky he didnt fake a winning lottery ticket, he would have got more.

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29.10.12
It’s all your fault Torres
ALEX FERGUSON stuck the boot into Fernando Torres and claimed the £50million Chelsea striker DESERVED to be sent off for diving. The Manchester United manager was involved in a heated touchline row with Blues boss Roberto Di Matteo following Torres’ 68th-minute dismissal.
And he reckoned that the European champions should have had THREE red cards but ref Mark Clattenburg bottled sending off John Obi Mikel.
Torres had already been booked for a foul on Tom Cleverley when he went down under a challenge from United defender Jonny Evans.
Both Evans and Ferguson later admitted that there was contact, but the United boss insisted: “Torres could have gone on and he didn’t.
“I think Jonny may have caught him just a little but you can carry on running and he chose to go down.
“He could have carried on and scored, that’s what I don’t understand.
“When I was a player, I would never have missed the chance to go through. I would have taken that opportunity to score every time.
“But he’s gone down and that is the issue. And he’s already been booked, so it’s his own fault.”

vicious.sid: And that's from the man with the highest amount of divers in one team in the Premiership!

29.10.12
Bombshell for BBC as trust dives
PUBLIC trust in the BBC has nosedived in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal. Nearly half of viewers now have doubts about the broadcaster, a Sun poll reveals.
The survey of 1,785 adults also delivers a damning verdict on the Beeb’s handling of sordid sex allegations, which now involve 300 victims.
Seven in ten adults think the BBC covered up claims against the Jim’ll Fix It paedo — and 34 per cent think others at the Corporation were involved.
Nearly half of parents would NOT let their under-16s appear on a BBC show.
The poll supports an admission by BBC Trust chief Lord Patten that the revelations have done “terrible damage”.
Poll experts said it left the Beeb with a “mountain to climb” to regain confidence.
YouGov director Joe Twyman said that public trust had been “shattered”.

vicious.sid: What???? People actually had confidence in the BBC before all this? The BBC has always been the same as the British politicians for as long as I can remember - self serving, UK hating, money wasting (especially if it's on themselves), biased and unaccountable. Too much taxpayers' money and too much power.
sonnesun: @vicious.sid Confidence in the BBC? It's neither here nor there. It's not just about lacking confidence, that went long ago. We just never had any say in anything before. The media is just now at last giving us the chance to say how it is at long fricking last.

29.10.12
Kids say boxes are top Xmas pressies
KIDS can have more fun with a cardboard box at Christmas than with an expensive present, research reveals. A total of 46 per cent of parents claimed their child enjoys playing with boxes instead of toys and games.
The survey found twice as many kids preferred playing with the cardboard wrapping than those who liked pricey electronic gadgets such as tablet computers and games consoles.
Just one in ten parents said their kids opted for shop-bought toys while 12 per cent chose watching DVDs as their favourite play activity.
However, parents reported feeling forced into spending extra cash on presents by annual Christmas must-have toy lists. Almost half plan to lavish £200 or more on each child, while one in ten expects to shell out over £500. One in 100 even plans to blow more than £2,000 on gifts.

vicious.sid: That's made my day, that has. Guess what my kids are getting for Christmas!

29.10.12
Owl vs the Pussycat
THIS is the heart-stopping moment an owl grabbed a cat in a daring airborne raid. The bird of prey turned and stared menacingly into the camera as it was snapped with the hapless moggie in Minnesota, USA.
Owls are known to fly cats high into the air before dropping them on the ground to kill them. It is not known if this one survived.

vicious.sid: I think it's safe to say that that is one bird that won't be dragged into the house!!!!

29.10.12
Shame games: Steward hurt as missile morons spark FA probe
THE FA will launch an investigation into yesterday’s disgraceful missile-throwing at Stamford Bridge and Goodison Park. Yobs hurled coins at Liverpool’s Luis Suarez during the X-rated 2-2 Merseyside derby with Everton.
And a Chelsea steward needed hospital treatment after being struck by an object hurled from the stands during Manchester United’s explosive 3-2 win.
The louts hurled coins, lighters, plastic cups and even a SEAT on to the pitch after Javier Hernandez struck the 75th-minute winner. It was a return to the bad old days of football hooliganism.
The sickening scenes came on the weekend Premier League players supported the FA’s ‘One Game, One Community’ campaign with pre-match handshakes and T-shirts.
Police will ask for video footage from the grounds to try and identify the morons. Both incidents could also lead to the FA bringing charges against Everton and Chelsea. An FA spokesman said: “We will wait for the referees’ report and look into it.”
A Chelsea spokesman said: “A steward slipped and hurt his knee and went to hospital for treatment.”
Yesterday’s disgusting events came almost two weeks after Stuart Pearce’s England Under-21 players suffered racist abuse and were pelted with rocks, bottles and cans in their Euro 2013 play-off game in Serbia.

vicious.sid: I would never condone that behaviour ever. The blame lays squarely on the fans but Clattenburg was the catalyst. It probably wouldn't have happened if he had refereed how they are supposed to, they are not the stars, they are there to make sure the game is fair. It wasn't. He let his emotions take over (and he probably had the hairdryer treatment before the match), I don't think he is strong enough to referee matches with that kind of atmosphere. He did it all wrong.
jimacclad: @vicious.sid it has nothing to do with the referee - it is down to the individual - England lost the Rugby World cup on a close call decision - did you see them riot?  Can you imagine the behaviour of the moronic football fan if England lost the football world cup to a dodgy decision?  We rioted after losing a quarter final to germany in 96 - take some responsibility for a change in your own actions. Ripping a seat isn't the action of someone with a full set of marbles to play with.
Mathomp: I doubt they would need Cracker to work out that the guy in the glasses and the plastic brown jacket has thrown something. As for vicious.sid  and the the chavs blaming everyone but themselves, how can it be the refs fault? Was he handing out the missiles that were thrown on the pitch. Grow Up. I'd say a suitable punishment would be to make you play a couple of games behind closed doors, but you virtually do that anyway.
vicious.sid: Mr Mathomp. I'm just wondering if you can read. Did chavs like you actually go to school? I'll repeat what I said with words with less syllables: 'The blame lays squarely on the fans but Clattenburg was the catalyst.'  (Damn, that was the same syllables.) All I was saying was that the fans are idiots and it is all their fault but the referee was so incompetent that it inflamed an already volatile atmosphere. Please read things properly before you insult philosophers and philanthropists like myself.

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28.10.12
Now Mi Lords want iPadzzzz (But will £380k gadgets stop 'em kipping?)
SHAMELESS peers are demanding taxpayers buy them swanky iPads — which could cost up to £380,000. Lords and ladies — who are often spotted snoozing on the benches — want to follow in the footsteps of MPs who now get the Apple gadgets for free.
Freedom of Information requests revealed the issue was repeatedly raised in responses to a recent House of Lords survey. One peer complained his taxpayer-funded BlackBerry was “awkward”, adding: “Time to go iPad?”
Another wrote: “If we had iPads we could take those into the chamber and would not need endless paper copies.”
Further remarks included: “Would prefer an iPad to the Dell stuff.” One peer even called for the tablets to be given to unpaid helpers, saying: “If we can’t have staff paid for by the House we need excellent IT support for ourselves AND volunteers including iPhone, iPad, notebook(s) and PC.”
More than 70 MPs have claimed for iPads on expenses. But supplying all 760 peers with the devices — worth around £500 each — would cost an estimated £380,000.

vicious.sid: A few years ago, this would have just been joked about but it's not funny any more. These leeches really don't have any shame whatsoever! Everything in their lives must be paid for by someone else, and the vast majority of those other people earn a hell of a lot less and work a hell of a lot more than these useless spongers (where have I heard that term before?!). Britain is a laughing stock. Sigh . . .
saints123: The views below are ridiculous. Tablets save money for politicians who have to have huge quantities of paper printed out every day. The chances are too they will be bulk bought and will be cheaper than the RRP. Get a grip people. There will be a clear business case for this that I'd be amazed won't save the tax payer money.
vicious.sid: saints123: They've already sponged free laptops from the taxpayers who pay their extortionate wages, why would they need an iPad aswell? You can do everything on the laptop if you wanted to save paper. They just want iPads for nothing.
 

28.10.12
Police hunt 'highly dangerous' criminal on the run from open prison
POLICE are hunting a “dangerous and predatory" criminal they suspect to have committed a serious sex offence while on the run from prison. Ivan Leach, also known as Lee Cyrus, went missing from North Sea Camp open prison in Boston, Lincs, after he failed to return from day release on October 9.
The 47-year-old is believed to have carried out a very serious sexual attack in Tayside, Scotland, while on the run although police say they cannot release further details for legal reasons.
The public have been warned not to approach Leach under any circumstances as he poses a significant risk, and police have called for him to give himself up.
Despite a large-scale search involving more than 30 cops and numerous reported sightings he remains at large.
Police are urging the public to be vigilant and to come forward with information about his possible whereabouts.
Preston-born Leach has visited his home city on a number of occasions since he absconded but he could be anywhere in the country. Inquiries are also ongoing in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Tayside.
Lancashire Police are also investigating reports that two schoolgirls were approached for sex as they sat at a bus stop around 6.30pm on Lancaster Road in Preston city centre on Wednesday October 17.
The girls were spoken to by a man who matched Leach’s description and made sexual remarks towards them as he encouraged them to participate in sexual activities with him. The girls boarded their bus and reported the incident to the police.
Leach was jailed in 2005 for robbing a 90-year-old woman in Ribbleton. He was given a life sentence with a minimum tariff of five years. He also has convictions for burglary, robbery and assault.
Detective Chief Inspector Ian Dawson, of Preston Police, said: “Leach is an extremely dangerous and predatory individual who poses a serious threat to members of the public.

vicious.sid: Putting a dangerous man in an open prison? When they finally catch him does this mean that he will never be released again? He obviously hasn't been rehabilitated and never will be. What are these people who are paid to make the decisions whether someone is safe or not doing? Sack the handwringers and get in people who know what they are doing.

28.10.12
I've proved my bulging biceps are the real deal, says Popeye man
A REAL-LIFE Popeye with the world’s biggest biceps has undergone medical tests to quash rumours that his massive arms are the result of surgical implants. Moustafa Ismail, 24, shot to fame last month when he claimed a place in the 2013 Guinness Books of World Records for his 31 inch biceps.
But his success prompted a whispering campaign in the bodybuilding world and speculation grew that his incredible bulk was surgically-enhanced.
So Moustafa - known as ’Big Mo’ - agreed to undergo a series of medical tests in Japan, including a full-body MRI scan and an ultrasound scan on his upper arms.
Experts found no signs of implants, drug use or intravenous tampering – clearing Mo of any wrongdoing.
He said: “I have nothing to hide and so I agreed to do it. I am nothing but proud of what I have achieved as an unknown and amateur bodybuilder."
Moustafa eats as much as three pounds of chicken, and a pound of steak or fish a day, as well large portions of carbohydrates.

vicious.sid: How much do you think the doctor was paid? They are bags of fluid that are the same size at rest as they are being 'flexed' - not even the slightest bit of definition - with little weedy forearms! They look ridiculous.

28.10.12
Reid is a fame addict
CROSS-DRESSING cagefighter Alex Reid has admitted he is “addicted” to fame.
The former glamour model was asked by Hollywood actor Robert Englund what she would scold Alex for.
She raged: “He is fame-hungry. I think he gets into high-profile relationships and sells every part of it... he is self-indulgent.”
Alex – who opens up about his alter-ego Roxanne – said: “She said I am fame-obsessed and I acknowledge it as I have been. And it has become like an addiction.”

vicious.sid: A word of advice, you weirdo. You should be famous for the best reasons, not for being a complete and utter plank and being a laughing stock!!!!

28.10.12
Why work? I get £30k benefits
A JOBLESS dad whose family gets nearly £30,000 in benefits has boasted: “Why should I work?” Scrounging Paul Tolley, 54, and wife Amanda, 28, rake in £29,472 a year in handouts — over £3,000 more than the average UK wage.
Father-of-six Paul is FIT to work yet sees nothing wrong in letting the state pay for them to “live comfortably” in a four-bedroom bungalow in a seaside town.
Millions of hard-working families struggling to make ends meet will be outraged by their set-up — and see it as yet another of example of the broken benefits system.
The couple have four children aged three to seven and claim £2,456 a month in job support, rent and council tax, child benefit and tax credits in Southend, Essex.
Paul has not worked since suffering a back injury in 1996 but still managed to pay for the couple’s boozy wedding out of benefits.
He is £29,000 in DEBT yet stopped repaying a loan to spend £100 on each of his kids’ Christmas presents.
And he was ordered to REPAY £7,000 in disability allowance after council spies caught him laying a new lawn and lifting heavy bin bags.
But Paul, who has two older children from a previous relationship, bragged: “Why should I work when we can live on benefits? I don’t care if I go bankrupt.
"Some people were born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they wouldn’t understand how hard it is for us.”
Denying abusing the system, he added: “Because we are two parents we get more money. So what?
“This Government isn’t doing enough to get cheats off benefits — and I don’t think I am one of them.”

vicious.sid: For starters, take out those earrings, mate, you look like a silly old man trying to be trendy but failing miserably! It's a bit embarrassing. This is all the government's fault. They are not breaking any laws (although he has cheated the taxpayer in the past) but they obviously have no morals. Have you noticed that this type of sponging family have loads of kids? As soon as the youngest is old enough to go to playschool and the mum can work, pop, out comes another one and, surprise, surprise,she can't work! Now, you imagine this story a million times over. I have three kids and I have never been on benefits (I tried once and they told me no because I missed a few months of paying National Insurance out of 30 years!) and I agree with the idea that there should be no more child benefit after the second child. You choose to have that many, YOU pay for them! Benefits were originally designed to help people in genuine need, who can't feed themselves, but these spongers have all the latest flatscreen tellies, computers and foreign holidays so something is wrong somewhere. If any of this stuff is in anyone's house who is on benefits then they're getting too much and it should be reduced drastically. But nothing will ever change until the country goes bankrupt. Sigh . . .

28.10.12
Abu Hamza facing hell in a cell
HATE cleric Abu Hamza will live in “hell” at America’s toughest prison, an ex warder has revealed. Security expert Robert Hood says the Islamic fanatic would find Colorado’s “Supermax” jail a brutal contrast to cushy UK prisons, if he is convicted of terror charges in the US.
And Hamza — who lost both arms and an eye in a blast — will not be able to use his disabilities to dodge the modern-day version of the infamous Alcatraz jail, where inmates are locked up 23 hours a day.
Mr Hood, 61, said: “The US prison system is made up of boxes within boxes.
“This is the final box. There’s nowhere left to go. It’s a clean version of hell.”
Hook-handed Hamza, 54, was booted out of Britain this month after eight years fighting extradition.

vicious.sid: I still think it's a bit too luxurious for what he deserves. I hope he enjoys 99 years in his new humble abode.

28.10.12
Anti-terror police search after weapons stolen from train
ANTI-TERROR cops have launched an investigation after a batch of anti-tank mines were stolen from a train. Ten packages of munitions used by British troops in Afghanistan were believed to have been stolen while the train stopped in Warrington, Cheshire.
The North West Counter Terrorism Unit say it does not believe at this stage the theft was terror-related.
The Ministry of Defence-owned munitions do not pose a risk to the public unless they are tampered with, added the Unit.
Three of the packages, each with four separate plastic cases inside, remain outstanding after the other seven were found discarded near a railway line in the Folley Lane area of Warrrington.
The train left Longtown, Cumbria, at 11.30am on Wednesday and arrived at Didcot, Oxfordshire, where they were reported missing the next morning.
Officers are now appealing to anyone who may have seen the outstanding items to contact police.
They are described as being rectangular plastic tubes, approximately 4ft in length.
A co-ordinated investigation led by the NWCTU also includes the Metropolitan Police Service, British Transport Police and the MoD.

vicious.sid: The MoD mess something up? Preposterous, would never happen! I bet they paid twenty million quid for the delivery as well and they weren't even guarded? Give me a job, I can run it better than them - now, where are my big brown envelopes . . ?

28.10.12

Caught on camera: Jimmy Savile gropes terrified teenage girl as he presents Top Of The Pops

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After hundreds of accusations that claim Jimmy Savile molested hundreds of youngsters, the disgraced DJ has been caught on live TV groping a petrified teenager.
Sylvia Edwards can be seen sitting next to the blonde presenter on Top Of The Pops as he announces the next song to viewers, surrounded by a group of teenage girls, after the recording appeared on You Tube.
But then a horrified Sylvia leaps off of her chair, shrieks and tried to move away from smirking Savile, who calmly talks into the camera.
Jimmy Savile can be seen smirking as blonde Sylvia, seen sitting on the left of the DJ, tries to lean away from his wandering hands
Savile continues to grab the distressed teenager, who desperately tries to wriggle away
Hundreds claim they have been victims to Savile's wandering hands
The presenter grins as he shoves his hand up her skirt, tries to grab her bottom and fondles her - as she clearly looks distressed and attempts to wriggle free from him.
The young blonde, who was then a trainee hairdresser, told The Sun that she was so upset she ran to a BBC employee and told them how the pervert had mauled her - but was told to 'get lost' because Savile was only 'messing about'
The 55-year-old recalls how her assault was dismissed, even though it was patently obvious she was being groped.
The mother-of-two, who was 19 at the time, recalled how the male employee was furious at her for complaining about the alleged pervert's wandering hands, The Sun reported.
She claims she was branded as stupid and says that as a shy teenager she did not have the courage to pursue her complaint.
Savile was 50 at the time of the recording on November 25, 1976 in the BBC's West London TV Centre.

vicious.sid: Do you people who 'can't see groping going on' not get it? You could see how embarrassed she was, she looks very shy and would not say anything live on air!!! Why do you think she was jumping as much as she did and moving away from him? The giggling was embarrassment. The girls in front were obviously told to look at the camera but even they looked round because they knew something untoward was going on. I don't think it could be more obvious! I would hate you to be in a jury. And the way he introduced the next bit, you could tell his mind was somewhere else. Some people amaze me. They are either trying to get the old red arrows or they are probably a bit dodgy themselves.

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27.10.12
Men ARE better at multitasking than women, Swedish researchers claim
Working mothers may have to juggle more tasks than their husbands, but the long-held belief that women are better than men at multitasking is a myth, according to new Swedish research.
'On the contrary, the results of our study show that men are better at multitasking than women,' Timo Maentylae, a psychology professor at Stockholm University, said.
Men are sometimes better than women at handling multiple tasks simultaneously, but the performance gap is correlated to the female menstrual cycle, according to his study, to be published in US peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science.
The participants, 160 men and women between 20 and 43 years of age, were instructed to keep track of three digital 'clocks', or counters, that displayed different times at different speeds.
While registering certain times displayed by the clocks, defined by a simple set of rules, they also had to watch a scrolling ticker featuring common Swedish names, pressing the mouse button when one of the names was repeated.
In line with previous research, men and women with good so-called working memory were also better than others at multitasking.
However, Maentylae found that the ability to combine several different tasks at once was also linked to spatial ability which, for women, is linked to their menstrual phase.
'Previous studies have shown that women's spatial skills vary across the menstrual cycle with high capacity around menstruation and much lower around ovulation, when oestrogen levels are high,' he said.
'The results showed a clear difference in multitasking between men and women in the ovulation phase, while this effect was eliminated for women in the menstrual phase.'
The participants, 160 men and women between 20 and 43 years of age, were instructed to keep track of three digital 'clocks', or counters, that displayed different times at different speeds.
While registering certain times displayed by the clocks, defined by a simple set of rules, they also had to watch a scrolling ticker featuring common Swedish names, pressing the mouse button when one of the names was repeated.
Differences in spatial ability and working memory were based on separate tests.

vicious.sid: I can absolutely, catagorically and honestly say that I cannot multitask at all. My wife is far, far better than me. She can play a game on the iPad, check her Facebook, talk on the phone and watch a programme on the television all at the same time. Scary.

27.10.12
It's a bum wrap: Rod Stewart confesses he put cocaine up his backside
WRINKLY rocker Rod Stewart has confessed he took cocaine up his bum during his hell-raising days. During a candid chat on US TV Rod revealed he and Faces bandmate Ronnie Wood popped pills loaded with the Class A substance up their bottoms during wild sessions in the 1970s.
The pair were forced to resort to the odd method after Rolling Stone Ronnie snorted so much of the drug he burned a hole through his septum.
The 67-year-old made the incredible revelation during an appearance on Access Hollywood to promote his tell-all book Rod: The Autobiography.
He said: "(What happened to Ronnie) scared him, so we found another method of taking the drug. We put them in a little pill like the French do them, a suppository.
"We did that for a little while."
But he backtracked on his drug-taking habits after remembering he was on camera.
He said: "Are we still on the air?"
He added: “As far as the drugs are concerned, I was never an addict.
“I was never, you know, in rehab. It never affected my family or my relationships. I was just a social user."

vicious.sid: I can't see how cocaine can be used socially. Everyone I've known who took it just looked like babbling idiots, it's so obvious and not very social.

ElviriaDreamer: It's very social...used regularly by the socially inept! LOL. I know losers from the 80's/90's who are still powdering their ugly noses now. From policemen to grandmothers to dregs of society. Oh and the crimes it leads them to commit, is another story. What losers!

27.10.12
Conor Maynard adds the newly single maneater Katie Price to his growing list of fans
  IT looks like British singer Conor Maynard should be treading carefully. The star has added newly single maneater KATIE PRICE to his ever-growing list of fans.
Conor, however, doesn’t seem too bothered by the attention.
He said: “Don’t get me wrong, if I bumped into her in a club and she was friendly I’d talk to her and party with her.
“She’s probably a fun person to party with.”
Could say that.

vicious.sid: OMG! Start crossing yourself now, Conor! You in trouble, boy!!!!

27.10.12
Man who allegedly barbecued and ate a PUPPY faces jail for cruelty
A MAN faces jail after he allegedly admitted barbecuing and eating a puppy, according to officials in South Africa. The unnamed suspect, 43, reportedly slit the six-week-old animal’s throat before cooking it on an open fire and tucking in.
He was taken into custody yesterday after he allegedly admitted preparing the gruesome meal for lunch at his home near Cape Town.
Inspector Pete Eccles of the Society for Prevention for Cruelty to Animals told how he visited the scene and found just the puppy’s head and part of its intestines in an oil drum filled with coals.
He told South Africa’s Daily Voice newspaper: “I saw the fire drum and I kicked it and then the head rolled out and then I saw the intestines.
“When I spoke to him, he told me: 'I slit the puppy’s throat, skinned it and [barbecued] it and I ate it’.”
Mr Eccles added: “This is extremely horrific. I’ve never had a guy just say I cut up a dog and ate it.
“He said he read it somewhere that the SPCA said it was OK and I explained to him that it was not.”
The SPCA said they acted on a tip-off from a member of the public, and that inspectors believed the dead puppy was one of eight dogs living at the suspect’s shack home in the Cape Town suburb of Mitchell’s Plain.
Officials removed an adult dog and six puppies for safekeeping.

vicious.sid: I know it's illegal to make an animal suffer and it's a bit yucky morally to eat a puppy, but is it actually illegal to do so? Is it against the law to eat any animal? That'll be interesting.

27.10.12
Lady-garden of remembrance
A GRIEVING widower hired a stonemason to carve an exact replica of his late wife's private parts on her grave, it was reported today. Devoted Milan Marinkovic, 75, is said to have commissioned the unusual anatomical tribute in accordance with her dying wishes.
Wife Milena died three years ago and reportedly left instructions for the headstone carving to "make sure he never looked for another woman".
She also left a series of photographs of her lady-garden to be recreated in detail on her £2,100 tomb.
But stonemasons said it was "blasphemous" and Milan had trouble persuading a sculptor to do the job.
Now it is finally done and he believes the result is a fitting memorial to his wife and their 50-year marriage.
Serbian media reported that Milan, a retired lorry driver of Velika Krusevac, Serbia, said: “The problem wasn’t finding the money but finding an artist who would do it. Most of them said it was blasphemy.
“Now it’s finished I love it and it’s a really good likeness.
“And this way, a part of her will always be with me."
"People from funerals and anniversaries of deaths, come to see the headstone with my wife's vagina."
However, not everyone realises what the carving is, and Milan recalls his brother-in-law asking why the bird on Milena's grave had such a large beak.
He said: "I couldn't help but laugh."
Now that's what we call a vagina monolith...

vicious.sid: That reminds me, I have to get a bag of chopped liver from the butchers.

27.10.12
What granny wants for Christmas...
IT may come as a surprise what granny wants in her Christmas stocking this year — as a range of sex toys for the elderly has been launched. Manufacturers Desire and Pleasure are part of sexual health charity FPA and have aimed a new set of naughty gadgets specifically at older and disabled people.
With devices like remote-controlled vibrators, penis pumps, and 'Kegel devices' - used for exercising weak pelvic floor muscles – they hope to help randy retirees who have trouble using conventional toys.
They were launched online two weeks ago and have already caused a huge surge in traffic to their website.

vicious.sid: Ooh, I just had a bit of sick in my mouth.

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26.10.12
Lottery winner who 'could afford to buy several homes' refuses to budge from council house
One lucky lottery winner won enough money to buy several homes but has been able to stay in his taxpayer-funded council house
When most people hit the jackpot, they tend to splash their cash on frivolous shopping, plush sports cars and luxury homes.
But one lucky lottery winner - who had the money to buy several pads wherever he so desired - is still living in a council house in Stroud.
This means that despite his mega-win, his lifestyle is still being partly footed by the taxpayer.
And he is entitled to stay in his local authority property, paying subsidised rent and no mortgage, as a lifetime tenant.
The man in Gloucestershire - who has not been named - is said to have won a 'significant' sum but council rules prevent him being forced to move out of social housing and buy his own place.
The news comes at a time where there are more than 3,200 people who cannot afford their own homes on the council house waiting list in the Stroud area.
Stroud District council tenant Margaret Marshall said she thought it was vastly unfair and that the lottery winner should move on.

vicious.sid: Why do these people buy lottery tickets? Either let someone else win the money who will enjoy it and you stay in your council house or win the lottery and let some other poor soul on the streets have the council house. Is it a case of 'it's my money and I'm gonna keep it'? If you don't want it, I'll have it - I'll definitely find a use for it.

26.10.12
Heskey Cam!
His number nine shirt sold out within minutes due to unprecedented demand and his arrival sold the Newcastle Jets 2,000 more season tickets... but Emile Heskey fever Down Under just got a little more bizarre.
An Australian broadcaster has launched a live 'Heskey Cam', so fans of the English striker, 34, can study his every move in Friday night's clash with the Melbourne Victory.
Fox Sports will offer the service via the red button during their live coverage of the A-League fixture, having previously broadcast Alessandro Del Piero Cam and Shinji Ono Cam. 
An advert for the service says: 'Heskey Cam gives you it all: one camera, one hero; every pass, every run, everything Heskey does on the pitch, you'll see it first with the Heskey Cam, the dedicated broadcast providing a rare insight into what makes Heskey so good.'
While English fans might question the use of the words 'run' and 'so good', Heskey has got off to an excellent start in Australia.

vicious.sid: What the hell have the Australians been told about Heskey? It'll just be 85 minutes of footage of him on his bum!

26.10.12
Cruel thug filmed himself putting cat in tumble dryer
A CRUEL yob is facing jail after he shut his girlfriend’s terrified cat in a tumble dryer and put it through three spin cycles - for a LAUGH. Twisted Allan Staughton, 23, left the pet in the machine for 12 seconds and even filmed the moggie’s ordeal then posted a video of it online.
During the film he can be heard joking that the cat, called Princess, was ”the new Mr Tumble”. He even asked viewers to rate the disturbing YouTube footage on a forum.
The RSPCA were alerted via Facebook to the online film entitled “You must see this - it will crack you up” and launched a hunt for Staughton, who posted the sickening clip under the alias Nitroazza.
Charity officials discovered Princess suffered a broken tooth and a tongue injury in the terrifying episode. She has now been rehomed.
Staughton is now facing up to six months in jail after admitting animal cruelty at Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court.
The lout broke down in tears during the hearing after his internet anonymity was unmasked in court.
Magistrates heard Staughton had been dumped by his lover of four-and-a-half years and thrown out of their home following the attack.
Robert Starr, prosecuting for the RSPCA, asked the bench to slap a life-time ban on him keeping pets.
He said: “The cat would have been terrified and would have suffered mental and physical effects caused by having no method of escape.
“The reason why Princess didn’t move when the door was opened is because the incident would have left the cat in sheer terror, unbalanced and disorientated.
“It left the cat without any of its senses that you would attribute to a cat."
Mr Starr added that when Staughton was interviewed he had thought the incident was “funny.”
RSPCA spokeswoman Klare Kennett said yesterday: “This is a horrible thing to do to a cat.
“The animal will have suffered great trauma and a great deal of panic in that situation. It is totally unacceptable.”
Magistrates were shown the film - which has been removed from YouTube - of the cat being put into the machine as Staughton is heard saying it was going for “a tumble”.
The dryer was then turned on with the cat spinning inside for 12 seconds before Staughton opened the door.
Even after the cat was on its back in the bottom of the machine with its legs in the door and meowing Staughton spun it twice more.
Staughton, of Huntingdon, Cambs., admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the cat and sentence was adjourned for reports.
Kevin Warboys, mitigating, said: “Mr Staughton suffers from conduct disorder which he says means ’I just do things without thinking.’
“The idea arose from the cat often getting into the tumble dryer after it has been used, which my client believes is because it is warm."
He could be jailed for up to six months and fined up to £20,000 for animal cruelty.

vicious.sid: Why do these people do this? They have seen what has happened to people in the past who have done similar and they still do it! And, yet again, we have the handwringers who make up the 'condition' that 'made' him do it, he didn't want to do it but this 'conduct disorder' (hands up whoever's heard of it) made him do it. As long as these weirdos are making up excuses for idiots, they'll carry on doing it. Very strange.

26.10.12
Pictured: Twycross Zoo enclosure where three keepers 'were caught on CCTV beating Tonzi the elephant with canes'Three zoo keepers have now been sacked and arrested after they were accused of harming the two animals at a Leicestershire zoo.
Three male staff members are accused of beating Tonzi the elephant with bamboo canes after reportedly being caught on CCTV camera.
A source at the zoo claims that the keepers took turns hitting the 28-year-old Asian elephant but left no marks, so it was not obvious that the animal had been harmed, it was reported.
The zoo says it acted promptly when it looked through the CCTV footage (camera pictured top right) and called the police
The elephants can be seen today on the webcam at Twycross Zoo, after it was revealed that three employees had been dismissed following the allegations
It is believed that the other two elephants were hit with bamboo canes.
But when other staff members were checking through CCTV footage of the zoo, they spotted the alleged abuse.
The source said: 'It appeared Tonzi was being beaten by the keepers.
Apparently the keepers were taking it in turns to hit her with bamboo canes.'
The source claims that the zoo fears people will not visit the Leicestershire attraction after the alleged cruelty to the star animal.
Tonzi, who originally came from a timber camp in Burma, became a grandmother this year when her daughter Tara had a baby.
A  source claimed the trio were caught on CCTV
The zoo, which has an 80-acre site, confirmed that they had sacked staff following the alleged incident and said the animals had not been permanently harmed.

vicious.sid: Human nature has so many terrible flaws. How or why anyone could do this is beyond me. What actual pleasure would you get out of hitting a creature that will just stand there and take it? I can sort of understand why some nasty people would want to hunt an animal in the wild - there is the slimmest chance that this animal can fight back so it would be exciting for them (even though the chance is practically zero). But to hit an animal that's just standing there, over and over again? I honestly believe that these people should have their private lives looked into and they should be monitored in the future. This is literally psychotic behaviour - they are not normal people and they sound quite dangerous.

26.10.12
Sacked panto star Craig: 'I took up porn roles to spend more time with my wife'
SACKED panto star Craig Chalmers has revealed his new career as a porn star allows him to spend more time at home with his wife. Craig was dumped from his role as Prince Charming in Cinderella after bosses at the Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline, discovered he had appeared in an adult movie as Ryan Ryder.
But the 30-year-old star of Any Dream Will Do, says he gets to spend more time with his wife of two years, Jennifer Smith, because filming porn is a “10am to 3pm” job.
Craig, who grew up in Edinburgh, explained that his new adult entertainment role meant he worked fewer hours and could spend more time at home.
He said: “Working on conventional shows, I was basically living out of a suitcase, going from town to town. I hardly ever saw my wife.
“In my new career I head to work for 10am and I finish at 3pm. I’m home every night for dinner.”

vicious.sid: Ah, he's so good to his wife. I'm going to try that excuse on my wife, she'll love it.

26.10.12
Race ace McCririck in ‘ageist’ TV axing
VETERAN pundit John McCririck accused Channel 4 of “ageism” yesterday as he was axed from its horse racing coverage. The Celebrity Big Brother star, 72 — known for his deerstalker hat and sexist attitude — has been left out of the broadcaster’s new team.
He is being replaced by sidekick Tanya Stevenson — who he calls “The Female”.
Clare Balding, 41, will lead the new team from January 1.
Furious McCririck said: “Naturally I am devastated at being sacked. According to Channel 4, I’m being sacked after audience research.”
He added: “It is so sad that Channel 4 boss Jay Hunt and production chief Carl Hicks, both long-time BBC executives, have again gone down their well-worn path of ageism. Among the 13 slated to be on screen, only Jimbo McGrath is over 50.”
The pundit, in racing for more than 30 years, said he was told of the decision just 30 minutes before it was announced.

vicious.sid: Oh, the irony of it all! The ultimate revenge!!! It is a shame that such a knowledgeable man is being replaced but, be honest, he isn't a very nice man. Come on, all you girlies, let's have some comments!!!

26.10.12
Josef Fritzl dumps wife for deserting him in cell
MONSTER Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, has divorced his wife for failing to visit him in jail. The beast, 77, is serving a life sentence for incest, rape, coercion, false imprisonment, enslavement and negligent homicide of an infant son. A spokesman for the district court in Krems, Austria, where Fritzl — who forced his daughter to bear seven kids for him during her captivity — is imprisoned, declined to comment.
But Austrian magazine News reported the sicko’s missus Rosemarie would receive no pension as a result of the divorce. Twisted Fritzl imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in the basement of the family home in Amstetten in 1994, shortly after she turned 18.
Rosemarie reported her missing but Fritzl made Elisabeth write a letter saying she had run away.

vicious.sid: Why isn't she in prison with him? Like she didn't know what was going on.

26.10.12
You load hogs
WHAT a people-carrier! A mass of passengers and baggage clings miraculously to a lorry as it trundles across the Sahara.

vicious.sid: "Do you think the English Customs will spot us?" "No, we're the hundredth lorry-load today."

26.10.12
155mph killer was showing off to his girlfriend
A MANIAC driver who killed a father of three in a 155mph collision while trying to impress his girlfriend has been jailed for seven years. Shehzad Munir, 25, was racing like a “Formula One driver” when he cut across three lanes and ploughed into a car driven by Sukhpreet Singh Chimber.
Bus driver Mr Chimber, 30, was on his way home from work when Munir’s 4.5litre BMW 6 Series hit his motor with so much force it was hurled more than 200 yards.
Mr Chimber, of Grays, Essex, died at the scene. He had daughters aged six, five and 20 months, and was also expecting a son with wife of eight years Sonia at the time of the accident in September 2010.
The smash — near Rainham, Essex — was one of the highest-speed fatal accidents ever dealt with in Britain.
Mr Chimber’s devastated family said in a statement: “Our lives were shattered. He doted on his princesses and was excited beyond belief about the birth of his son. We cannot find words to explain the amount of grief and pain that we are still feeling.”
Arrogant Munir, of Plaistow, East London, denied causing death by dangerous driving but was convicted by a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court. It heard how he had picked up his girlfriend unexpectedly after the pair had a row.
Judge Patricia Lees told Munir: “The sentence can never reflect the loss of life caused by your arrogant, idiotic and irresponsible behaviour.
“I have no doubt the victim died because you were showing off to your girlfriend. You were no doubt trying to win her over after having a falling-out a couple of days before. Two witnesses described your driving as like that of a Formula One driver. The distance travelled at excessive speed was six miles.”
Munir was banned from driving for eight years. He has a previous conviction for driving without due care and attention in 2005 — and was jailed for two years in 2008 for wounding with intent.

vicious.sid: It's now time to adjust these stupid prison sentences. Three and a half years for killing an innocent man just going about his business and destroying his family's lives for ever? The sentences we have now probably were a deterrent in their day, prison was harsh and people did suffer enough not to want to go back when they were created. Now they are just places to stay for a while with all mod cons which, to people like Munir, is no punishment at all. I think it's now time to review sentencing and triple or even quadruple the maximum time. At the every least Britain should adopt the 'three strikes and you're out' - twenty years minimum for a third offence, no matter what it is. Something has to be done to protect the public from these career criminals, just keep them away from the public until they've had a chance to grow up or they're just too old to bother anyone any more. Oh yeah, I forgot, human rights. Sigh . . .

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25.10.12
Oh, oh Riley!
STRICTLY’S Lisa Riley hopes her twinkle toes will lead her to a new role – as a Bond girl. The ex-Emmerdale actress would love to join 007 star Daniel Craig in his next film.
And she is so keen to get in on the action that she asked fellow Strictly contestant Richard Arnold to put in a good word for her with Skyfall director Sam Mendes.
Lisa tweeted the showbiz reporter at the Skyfall premiere in London on Tuesday, saying: “Does he want a fat girl who’s light on her feet in his next movie?? ASK HIM!!!”

vicious.sid: Oh, oh! You are a lovely person but I think you have as much chance of being a Bond girl as I do of being James Bond! Between zero and laughing their heads off!!! My name is Sid, Vicious Sid (I think that sounds a lot better actually).

25.10.12
'Your offending is off the Richter scale': Judge slams teenage burglar who has raided 278 homes and stole 60 cars since the age of 12
A teenager who admitted burgling an astonishing 278 homes was told yesterday that his offending was ‘off the Richter scale’.
Adam Crampton, 19, was already serving a four-year sentence for robbery and burglary when he decided to ‘clear the slate’ by confessing to all his crimes.
He took police officers on four separate tours to point out properties he had raided. There were 200 in one area of Leicester alone.
At the city’s crown court, he was given an additional five years on top of his current sentence.
Judge Simon Hammond said the number of burglaries Crampton had carried out was ‘off the Richter scale’ when it came to sentencing guidelines, adding: ‘What I am presented with here is a huge number of burglaries. For many people, their homes are never the same again. The effects never leave them.
‘You were a persistent and remorseless burglar. Life is about choices and responsibilities. This can only be dealt with by way of a substantial custodial sentence.’

vicious.sid: What an absolute joke. Was that a deal with the police to make them look good? "Look at how wonderful we are, everybody, we have solved all these crimes!" 30 months for all that lot! How about making him pay each of his victims a couple of hundred quid compensation, taken directly out of his dole money? How I would love the American 'three strikes and you're out' system. 20 years minimum served for the third crime, no matter what it is. These idiots wouldn't be smirking then. Britain is a joke.

25.10.12
Why I dumped ‘crazy Katie’
KATIE Price’s ex Leandro Penna has torn into her over their love split — saying: “I left her because she is crazy.” The Argentinian hunk, 27, hit out despite Katie’s claims that they had ended their 20-month fling amicably.
He said the 34-year-old pin-up, famed as busty Jordan, was driving him mad. He added: “I don’t know what’s wrong with her.”
Raging Leandro fired a scathing parting shot at his ex — insisting: “Her brain is not wired right.”
He told how he stormed out on the couple’s romance because the model was driving him “insane”.
As he prepared to quit her Home Counties mansion and fly home, he said: “I decided to pack my bags and go. There was nothing else I could do.”
Twice-wed mum-of-three Katie said in a statement after the split: “We really wish each other nothing but the very best and will remain best of friends.”
But Leandro put a very different slant on the break-up with a string of caustic comments to a magazine in his native Argentina.
He said: “I left her simply because she is crazy. Katie’s brain is not wired right, or the wires don’t connect properly.
“I don’t know what’s wrong with her. I was thinking it over recently and one day decided to pack my bags and leave.
“There was nothing else I could do. She was driving me insane.”
And Leandro maintained there would be no reconciliation this time — unlike when the couple briefly split eight months into their relationship.
He added: “That’s it, there’s no going back. Katie is totally crazy. What started beautifully in February last year has now come to an end.”
Leandro is now expected to return to South America within days.

vicious.sid: First impressions tells you that this girl has issues - just look at the beach balls she's had stuck on her chest! But seriously, all you red-blooded men out there, if you have ever read anything about her in the newspapers or watched anything on television - WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING OF if you want to get with her??? You are only asking for trouble and, boy, you gonna get it!!!

25.10.12
Why it's never okay to hit a woman
LEAFING through the pages of his daughter’s diary, John Clough’s heart aches with the agony of losing her. The painfully familiar handwriting reveals how Jane Clough predicted her own death at the hands of her violent ex, Jonathan Vass.
Her sad words read: “I’ve been worrying today about Jonny coming to get me, even killing me. What would stop him?”
Vass stabbed the 26-year-old new mum and nurse 71 times before returning to slit her throat and leaving their nine-month-old baby motherless in July 2010.
Unbelievably, new statistics reveal one in ten boys think it is OK to hit women – and two per cent of women agree. The findings emerged from Girl Guiding UK, tracking the opinions of more than 1,000 girls and a panel of boys.
JOHN CLOUGH’S voice is thick with emotion as he says: “I wish more than anything I could have Jane here and be able to watch her grow-up with her own family.
“But that has all been taken away from us because of domestic violence.
“You never think it will happen to someone you love but it did.”
And the 53-year-old admits he is dismayed but not shocked by the statistic about boys thinking domestic violence is OK.
John says: “Regrettably I am not surprised by this poll.
“But domestic abuse should never be acceptable, it is inexcusable.
“Abusers always say ‘I did it because I love you’ but anybody who abuses you does not love you.”
When his daughter met ambulance technician Vass, John and his wife Penny — Jane’s mum — were anxious.
He explains: “We were wary of Vass from the start. Jane loved the person he was presenting to her, she always looked for the best in people.
“But Vass started showing tell-tale signs of an abuser early on.
“He wanted to be in control. We could see he was trying to put a wedge between her and us.
“To watch her change and become cut off from friends was very hard.”
A couple of months into the relationship John, from Higherford, Lancs, discovered his daughter was being assaulted.
He says: “She would come to our house from her home ten minutes away in Barrowford with make-up covering bruises.
“We don’t know when the abuse first started. She didn’t tell us because she didn’t want to hurt us.
“We found out about the abuse just before the baby was born, we knew he had hit her, but for her sake we tried to put it behind us as she wanted to make it work.
“As a parent you only want to protect your children, but we never told her to leave him because he would have used it to fuel the wedge he was driving between us.
“She knew how we felt, but we knew she needed to make the decision for herself. We knew she would do the right thing, because we trusted her.”
John, a signalling technician, then found out Vass had raped Jane.
He says: “It’s a father’s worst nightmare. She told her mum first, then reported it to the police in November 2009, one month after giving birth.
“We were so proud of her for reporting the crime. As a dad it was unbearable to discover.
“He raped her in front of her daughter and that’s when she went to the police and reported the assaults and rapes.
“She ended the relationship and stayed with us.
“He was charged in December, but bailed and she was so frightened and so were we.”
The night the Clough family learned of Jane’s death still haunts John to this day.

vicious.sid: 10% of men? That is a scary thought. I wonder how many of this 10% of the male population (you can't actually call them 'men') have actually hit a man? Probably a very small percentage. Around SIX MILLION males in the UK are beating their women? I imagine it went on a lot fifty years ago, but now? In this 'enlightened' age? I don't know how these people could live with themselves, having someone weaker than them  being scared of them, cringing when they hear the key in the door. My father-in-law was a woman-beater and now he's a lonely old man who's going to die on his own because of the way he treated the people who tried to love him. I really, really don't get it. Sigh . . .

25.10.12
Plastic props ban at kids’ Halloween party
KIDS attending a fancy dress Halloween party yesterday were banned from bringing toy broomsticks, scythes and devil tridents after health and safety fears. Community group leaders told parents the youngsters — aged five and under — might hurt each other if they brought along pointed objects.
The ban was put in place despite mums and dads being told that children under four had to be accompanied by a grown-up.
A note publicising the two-hour disco at a primary school in Treuddyn, North Wales, read: “Spooky disco in the school’s hall.
“Fancy dress optional. Under fours must be accompanied by a parent. For safety reasons there will be no broomsticks, devil tridents, scythes etc.”
Local Jo Turley described the ban on the plastic toys as “utterly bonkers”, adding: “Please leave our kids alone and let them be kids. So long as they are supervised, where is the harm in them having Halloween party bits and pieces?” Nicola Jayne Coleman said: “Health and safety is becoming a nightmare, overtaking everything.”
But councillor Carolyn Thomas, who helped organise the event, said: “The children are very young and we just didn’t want them running around with any pointy things. It was to save them hurting themselves or getting upset if they lose the articles.”

vicious.sid: You can imagine in fifty years time: all children from birth in plastic bubbles in suspended animation in steel rooms until they are 21 in case, god forbid, they move and hurt themselves. I think back of when I was a kid (way, way back in black and white days) and the fun we had without the slightest worry about anything - our generation made it (ok, a lot of us were damaged by the weird adults of the time, but we're still alive!). 'Great' Britain is breeding a whole generation of wimps who are going to be too scared to do anything fun in case someone, somewhere in the country gets hurt. This generation will be running the country eventually!!! I shudder to think . . .

25.10.12
Snore, snore, too
SLEEPING pills may have cost England a win in last week’s 1-1 draw against Poland. The players were handed tablets to help them unwind after the World Cup qualifier was postponed for 20 hours because of a waterlogged pitch.
Many had struggled to settle after taking the caffeine stimulant ProPlus before the scheduled game. Glen Johnson said: “We all took that for the game, then the game is off and no one can sleep.”
The disappointing result raised questions over the impact taking such pills could have on performance. But Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand tweeted: “What’s all the fuss with caffeine/ sleeping tablets? Players have used them for yrs before and after games without any fuss.”

vicious.sid: If that's the case, then they must have taken sleeping pills for every match they've played since 1966!!!! It's attitude, as soon as they slip the England shirt on they are different players. Is it ego? Are they scared of the responsibility? Sometimes the puzzling tactics don't help but they just don't seem to gel, maybe they don't train together enough. Whatever it is, these super duper multi-millionaire Premier players just look very ordinary when they are on the pitch together, as though they don't want to be there. Maybe the answer is to pay every player 250 grand each to play, maybe that's all they're interested in!!

25.10.12
Amy Childs looks a little tubby as she launches jewellery range
AMY Childs looks a little tubby as she poses in a bath at the launch of her new jewellery range. The former TOWIE star, 22, was made to look as if her belly was hanging over her bikini bottoms by the unflattering angle of the shots.
Amy, who is actually a tiny size 8, unveiled her jewellery line at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, London, today.

vicious.sid: Whoever wrote this article, it's people like YOU who are destroying children's self-esteem and, ultimately, their whole lives!! She has a perfect, womanly body (maybe the enhancements up top are a bit unnatural but, hey, I could suffer that!) and she looks absolutely gorgeous. I take it that the author is a stick-thin, boobless stick insect. Trust me, this is the look that most men (and women) prefer!!! Now I need to sit down . . .

25.10.12
Council faces £2m bill after underpaying women staff
THOUSANDS of women workers across Britain could be in line for massive payouts following a historic court judgment yesterday on equal pay. A group of 174 former cleaners, cooks and care assistants took legal action against Birmingham City Council.
Women were on the same pay grade as men who worked as street cleaners, binmen, road workers and grave diggers. But they were not paid as much because they missed out on bonuses.
Judges in London’s Supreme Court yesterday gave the ex-employees, named the Abdulla Group, the go-ahead to seek compensation. It could top £2million.
A thousand more female former council employees are now poised to launch legal action.
But the ruling also opens the floodgates for thousands of other women discriminated against in a similar way. Before yesterday’s ruling former staff could only apply for compensation within six months of leaving their job.
The Supreme Court judgment means equal pay claims can be heard in the High Court as well as an employment tribunal — and extends the period to six years.
Birmingham City Council spent an estimated £1million fighting the claims. It has now lost at the High Court, Appeal Court and Supreme Court with seven judges against and only two in favour.
The women claim the money would have been better spent settling their claims instead of fighting them. Former Birmingham City Council home help Joan Clulow, 71, said she felt “absolutely gutted” when the pay gap with men was revealed.

vicious.sid: Good on you, girls. To pay employees in that way in this day and age? Weird. The only down side is that the people of Birmingham had better watch their backs as their council are now going to have to think of new ways of clawing that money back. Expect to have to pay for permits to walk on your pavements, to plant flowers, etc, etc, etc . . !

25.10.12
Contortionist’s bid for more flexibility at work
FEELING overstretched at work? This contortionist certainly does — curling her body over a desk to use a computer with her hands and feet. The bendy blonde shows she really does bend over backwards for the boss in a calendar of office-inspired images.
In one picture, artist Zlata — real name Julia Guenthel — pours coffee with her leg bent back over her shoulder.
Another shows her holding a presentation with her head between her legs.
She also squeezes herself into a suitcase, under a desk and contorts herself on a chair.
Zlata, whose calendar is aptly called More Flexibility in the Office, said: “Most CEOs want to have more flexibility in work from their employees.
“Through my calendar I hope to inspire employees on becoming more flexible and give bosses the right motivation.
“It is my profession to train my body to be very flexible.”
Zlata has been a contortionist since she was 17.

vicious.sid: I refuse to comment on the grounds that I may incriminate myself . . .

25.10.12
Nani: God knows if I’ll stay at United
NANI insists only God knows whether he has a future at Manchester United. The Portugal winger has started just five of United’s 12 matches so far this season.
That sparked speculation he could soon be on the way out of Old Trafford, with Italian giants Juventus waiting to pounce.
But Nani, 25, admitted: “Only God knows what awaits me.”
The £14million signing from Sporting Lisbon six years ago was on the bench against Stoke last Saturday and again against Braga in Tuesday’s Champions League clash.
And he insists that fitness is not the reason why boss Alex Ferguson has been ignoring him.
Nani said: “I am in perfect condition — I am physically good and feeling confident.
“I am the same Nani as always.”

vicious.sid: Wow, going by that headline, old Red Nose has certainly commanded a lot of respect at Manure . . !

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24.10.12
GP who planted flowers on muddy verge near her surgery hit with £84 council bill for 'licence to cultivate'

A GP who planted flowers to brighten up a muddy verge near her surgery was stunned when she was charged £84 by a jobsworth council - for a ‘licence to cultivate’.
Dr Susannah Beattie planted nine shrubs on two patches of mud between her home and a GP practice in Cambridge in a bid to deter motorists from parking on it.
Local families welcomed the move and congratulated the doctor on improving the area around the Cornford House Surgery in Cambridge.
'Licence to cultivate': Angry GP Susannah Beattie and local councillor Geoff Heathcock by the spruced up muddy verge in Cambridge with the small number of plants she put in, in front of them
But just a fortnight later Dr Beattie received a snooty letter from Cambridgeshire County Council informing her that she was breaking the law.
Council officials claim the amateur gardener must pay £84 for a ‘licence to cultivate’ on the verge outside her home - or pull up the plants.
Dr Beattie, who was yesterday resigned to paying the fee, has demanded a rethink on the 30-year-old rules she claims leave no room for common sense.
'It doesn’t make sense to discouraging the local community from beautifying the neighbourhood,' she said.
'So many people litter the streets and aren’t brought up for it, but if you are beautifying the streets you have to pay extra money.
'I think it should be looked at because it is a disincentive against people taking ownership of their neighbourhood and making the place look beautiful.'
Dr Beattie was told she must submit a plan to the Cambridgeshire County Council, which controls all planting on public land, for her flowers on Wulfstan Way, Cambridge, to be approved.
Cllr Geoff Heathcock, who represents Dr Beattie’s area on Cambridgeshire County Council, yesterday said the action was 'unnecessary.'
He said: 'This action is both unnecessary and petty compared to the damage that is done all year round by parking on verges, and considerably less is done about that.
'I think there needs to be some balance in the application of highways laws to distinguish between something which is constructive rather than destructive.
'This is over the top and dissuades people from public-spirited activity to replace verges that would otherwise be mud or worn away.'
But a spokesman for Cambridgeshire County Council said the licence was standard practice.
He said: 'The fee covers the cost of inspecting the site and agreeing a suitable planting scheme that specifies the species and sizes of plants.'

vicious.sid: Welcome to the Cambridge Council meeting. Right, come on you lot, we want chocolate digestives instead of the plain ones for our tea breaks, how can we make some money? What about charging them 16 quid to walk on the path? No, Canterbury Council tried that one, didn't work. I know, I saw someone planting flowers yesterday . . .

24.10.12
London 2012 comes in £377million under budget (but still £6.5BILLION more than forecast when the bid was won)
The London 2012 Games ended up £377million under budget, new figures showed today.
The overall cost of the Games is forecast to come in at £8.921billion from a budget of £9.298billion.
But this was still much higher than the original £2.4billion cost forecast when the bid was won in 2005.
The original budget for the London 2012 Games was £2.4billion, but rose to more than £9billion
Today the government hailed the underspend as 'prudent'.
Sports minister Hugh Robertson said: 'The work of the construction and delivery teams, from the ODA (Olympic Delivery Authority) and Locog (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games), has set a very high standard and I have no doubt that London 2012 has set a new benchmark for the management of Olympic and Paralympic Games in future.'
Attempts to claw back millions from security firm G4s for its failure to provide thousands of guards just weeks before the Games started are still ongoing.
Mr Robertson said: 'There are projected savings of at least £377 million so the predictions that I made this summer that we could bring this project in at under £9 billion has almost certainly been met.
'Locog also have to conclude, and we have to sign off, the negotiations with G4S over the size of the amount of money that will be paid back to the public purse - so if you were to add to that £377 million, anything that will not be used but is held against outstanding work and anything that might come back from G4S, it is entirely reasonable to expect that figure to rise.'

vicious.sid: Hilarious! Nothing other than what can be expected from the efficient and honest British politicians!!! Who else in the whole world can say that a job quoted at a cost of £2.4billion and completed at a cost of £8.921billion works out at £377million under budget! The rest of the world must be looking at British politics and laughing their heads off! How the hell can these people get away with it over and over again? If Cameron ever wants a quote for building a conservatory, I'll quote him for four grand, charge him 17 grand and it'll be £465 under budget, impressive or what? Wow, I am flabbergasted, I think I need to sit down!!!!

24.10.12
Madonna falls flat on her face during Like A Prayer performance on tour
MADONNA takes a tumble on stage as she performs her hit Like A Prayer to fans. The Queen Of Pop was playing a date of her MDNA tour in Dallas and getting up close to fans when one eager audience member tugged on her hand, causing her to fall.
The 54-year-old singer is seen looking horrified as she realises she is going to stumble and a fan is heard screaming excitedly.
She then tips backwards on to the floor with her legs in the air before rolling on to her front and clambering back to her feet.
However, Madonna remains professional and carries on singing throughout the whole ordeal.

vicious.sid: She's been taking a bit of training from Suarez or some Premier player. The fan only just touched her, honest, ref!

24.10.12
FA go gold for 150th anniversary
STEVEN GERRARD has revealed his pride at being England captain as the FA prepare to celebrate their 150th anniversary. English football’s governing body will commemorate the landmark year with a series of blockbuster matches and events ahead of a big birthday bash October 26 2013.
Midfielder Gerrard was handed the Three Lions armband on a permanent basis by manager Roy Hodgson in May.
And the 32-year-old could not hide his excitement at being one of the key participants in FA150.
He said: “It is a source of enormous pride to captain my country and to do so in such a significant year is fantastic.
“The history of football in this country is immense and it is staggering to think next year it will be 150 years since the organisation came together.
“Football has been my life from a very young age and it is important that we celebrate the opportunities and benefits of the game.
“It brings people so much happiness and while I’ve travelled the world as a footballer there is nowhere in the world quite like our country for passion and enthusiasm.”
The traditional Three Lions crest has been retained but will turn gold for the first time to underline the significance of the occasion.
And the design also features a 150-specific mark underneath, along with some of the handwritten text from the original FA Minute Book.
England boss Hodgson added: “The FA hold a very important place in history as the oldest governing body in football and it is only right we celebrate reaching a significant landmark.
“As I have said many times already, I am immensely proud to be the England manager and that is only heightened by holding the post at such an auspicious time in the history of the organisation.
“England have some exciting fixtures during the year and I’m very much looking forward to it.”

vicious.sid: England are going to play some blockbuster matches? Blimey that'll be a first! I'm sure the reporter misheard the England spokesperson, they actually said 'lacklustre matches'.

24.10.12
Subway thief leaves victim for dead in path of train
A THIEF robbed a drunk man who had fallen on to underground tracks – then left him there to be run over by an oncoming train. Callous Nadar Khiari, 28, leaped off the platform to steal the victim's belongings before fleeing.
Moments later, a train slammed into the 38-year-old who lost a foot but survived.
Khiari was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for theft and ordered to pay £1,125 in damages to the man, named only as Johnny.
The court in Stockholm, Sweden, ruled Tunisian national Khiari would be deported after serving his sentence.
But he was not charged with leaving the man on the tracks as Swedish law does not require people to help.

vicious.sid: That's ok, mate, when you're kicked out, you know where to go. Britain takes all scumbags from around the world and gives them lots of money and goods. Roll up, roll up!

24.10.12
Dad delivers own child...in hospital
A DAD had to deliver his wife’s baby in hospital — because there were no midwives. “Petrified” Daniel Araujo, 36, begged for help when he saw his son’s head poke out of Natalia’s underwear in a maternity ward’s reception area.
But the only staff member ran out to get help — and the removals boss was left to deliver the baby ALONE.
The couple had been told to wait at 1.30am after Natalia asked for a pain-relieving epidural. Two hours later she began to have contractions every minute.
Natalia got into a standing position as Daniel put his hand under the baby’s head.
Just one push later and he caught Daniel junior — then noticed he was struggling to breathe with the umbilical cord around his neck.
Brazil-born Daniel said: “I put my finger around it and twisted Daniel around to free him. He started to cry. We felt extremely relieved.
“I saw how it was done with my first two kids. If I wasn’t there he’d have fallen on to the floor. I thought he was going to die.”

vicious.sid: Well done, Daniel, now that's the way to bond with your child! This government and the NHS are disgusting and couldn't run a booze-up in a brewery. My daughter is at the beginning of her training to be a midwife and, even though she has no money, she has dedicated many, many hours to it whilst disrupting her and her family's home life. I am very proud of her because she is doing so well - with NO thanks to this wonderful government! They are putting every barricade in her way possible, every way she turns there is something else to stop her. I don't know if it's a test to see if she is serious, but it is very upsetting for her and completely unnecessary. She is battling through it and I feel sorry for her because it really is a battle but I am sure she will become fully qualified eventually. Don't let the buggers get you down, you can do it, girly!!!

24.10.12
Surfing the net aged just three, the hi-tech toddlers: Half of three and four-year-olds are technology savvy
Once upon a time, they would have played with train sets, dolls and cuddly toys.
Today’s toddlers, however, are more likely to be playing with an iPad - and are becoming adept at using the internet long before they start school.
Nearly half of three and four-year-olds are now technologically-savvy, a report by media watchdog Ofcom revealed yesterday.
And one in ten is already using an iPad to visit websites, watch films and television programmes and play games.

vicious.sid: Nothing new at all! My son is 23 now and when he was five or six he was programming the video recorder for us! I didn't have a clue how it worked!!!

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23.10.12
Thug jailed for decking Wednesday goalie Chris Kirkland on pitch
A THUG fan has been jailed for four months for decking goalie Chris Kirkland on the pitch during a top televised game. Aaron Cawley, 21, told cops he had drunk a bottle of vodka, several cans of strong lager and up to TEN pints of cider before the disgraceful attack.
He claimed he could not remember doing it - but today admitted assault and entering the field of play during Sheffield Wednesday’s home match against Leeds United on Friday night.
Wednesday keeper Kirkland, who has played for England, was shoved to the ground moments after conceding an equaliser in the 76th minute.
Sky Sports cameras clearly showed Cawley running into Kirkland's penalty area, flooring the shocked goalie with a two-handed shove to his face and smirking as he raced back towards the Leeds supporters area at the Hillsborough stadium.

vicious.sid: Every match: two matches a week, on past experience including travel, a couple of pints and a pie, that'll be about a hundred to 150 quid a week. Plus his fags, no doubt. I'd LOVE to know where he's getting the money!

23.10.12
Walk home? You'll need a £16 council permit: Householders forced to pay charge to gain access through car park
Householders have been told to pay £16-a-year for a ‘pedestrian permit’ - giving them the right to walk through a council-owned car park to their homes.
Letters demanding the money also wanted a further charge of £122 a year to allow vehicle access to the rear of the houses.
Tory-run Canterbury council also said the homeowners would need to take out £2million of public liability insurance.
Pay to use: Bisson's Car Park in Whitstable, Kent, where Canterbury City Council has demanded residents take out 'pedestrian permits' to allow people to walk through it
The council bought the land at the back of the 14 homes in Whitstable, Kent, by compulsory purchase in 1995.
The council also said that homeowners would need to take out public liability insurance to the tune of £2million each, just in case someone had an accident.
The letter states: ‘To continue using the council’s land for gaining vehicle access to the rear of your property, I am required to offer you an annual access licence of £122 for a vehicle and £16 for a pedestrian licence, renewable on April 1.’
Local Andy Finch said he ‘couldn’t believe it’ when he read the letter - which effectively forces him and his neighbours to pay an annual fee just for using their back door.
In addition, they will have to pay a further £122 a year to allow vehicle access to the rear of their houses in Whitstable (pictured)
He said: ‘I thought it was a genuine April Fools’ joke - it is an insult to everyone else who already pays their council tax.’
The letter asks the 14 homeowners to sign a 13-clause licence agreeing to its terms and conditions - including the £2m public liability insurance - but none have accepted and they have all complained to the council.
Labour councillor Phil Cartwright said: ‘I have pointed out to the chief executive that maps from the 1930s show an access route and pathway.
‘If this is so, I fail to see how the council can legally charge the owners now. If they do, what next? Toll booths on council footpaths?’

vicious.sid: Come on, you have admit that's funny. If I received that letter I would have laughed out loud!!! It's like something you expect to see on the Sopranos! You can just imagine the council posting bouncers on your back gate: "Sorry mate, you ain't got a permit, you ain't goin' in." Somebody somewhere in the council has actually considered it and taken it seriously! Oh, well, it looks like the council workers will have to have plain digestives with their tea instead of the chocolate ones for now. Hold on, I've got another idea, why don't we charge them an extortionate amount of money just for actually living in the borough . . . oh no, done that. I know, what about the amount of air that they breathe . . ?

23.10.12
UK has never been more disillusioned with the EU
The British have never been more disillusioned with the European Union, William Hague will warn today as the Government fights a new rise in the Brussels budget.
The Foreign Secretary will use a speech in Berlin to insist that Germany must allow the UK to reclaim powers from Brussels or risk the collapse of the EU.
He will fire the warning shot as Britain and Germany continue to clash over the size of the future EU budget.
Foreign Secretary William Hague will tell a German think tank today that Britain is committed to the EU, but must be allowed to reclaim some powers from Brussels
David Cameron yesterday vowed to stick to his guns and veto the Budget at a summit next month if it leads to an inflation-busting rise. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel is backing a larger increase in spending and officials acknowledge  there will have to be ‘a negotiation’.
Mr Hague will today depict Brussels as ‘a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments’.
He will tell the leading German foreign policy think tank the Koebler Foundation: ‘This Coalition Government is committed to Britain playing a leading role in the EU.
‘But I must also be frank. Public disillusionment with the EU in Britain is the deepest it has ever been.
‘People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.’
Mr Hague will also warn that the last vestiges of support will collapse in the UK unless there is change.

vicious.sid: To be fair, the only people in the world who are not disillusioned with the EU are the MEPs with their big piles of Euros.

23.10.12
No more let-offs for knife thugs, says PM: And offenders will be tracked by satellite technology
Criminals caught carrying a knife should no longer expect to escape with a caution, David Cameron said yesterday.
The Prime Minister announced a review of laws that have meant one in five people caught with a blade escapes punishment.
And Justice Secretary Chris Grayling will today unveil measures meaning that all adult community sentences will have to include a punitive element, and that offenders will be tracked by satellite technology.
Prime Minister David Cameron (right) was escorted around C wing by prison officer Margaret Vaughan, during a visit to Wormwood Scrubs Prison in west London today ahead of his speech on crime
Access to the GPS data will allow probation officers to follow the movements of those who have been tagged.
In his first major law and order speech since the election, Mr Cameron said: ‘We are looking at toughening up knife sentences, because to me a caution for carrying a knife does not seem enough.’
Before their victory in 2010 the Tories had pledged to bring in automatic jail sentences for anyone caught carrying a knife.
But – to the fury of many Tory backbenchers – Mr Grayling’s predecessor Kenneth Clarke watered down the plans, bringing in mandatory jail sentences only for those convicted of aggravated knife possession.
This means 22 per cent of people caught with a knife go to jail, with 28 per cent getting a community sentence and 13 per cent a suspended jail sentence. Cautions are given in the bulk of the remaining 37 per cent of cases.

vicious.sid: This does whiff of desperation a bit,doesn't it? They know they'll be out on their derrieres at the next election so they are now, at long last, saying the things that the people actually want to hear (and, just for the record, what the people actually want them to DO but that's a different matter altogether!). Let's wait and see if they actually do anything. What I don't understand is why they didn't say all this right at the beginning? Maybe they've been negotiating all this time and now the government are going to buy the system for a million quid and sell it to us plebs for a billion quid - that I would believe.

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22.10.12
Stepdad secretly filmed me naked for years ...yet my mum stood by him
TRUSTING teen Bethany Buckle had thought her mum’s boyfriend was a good bloke ever since he had moved into the family home when she was seven. Camping trips, cinema visits, bike rides and meals out were the stuff of a happy childhood for Bethany and her older brother Nathan.
So they were delighted, in 2009, when mum Tracy finally tied the knot with Michael Connor.
But a month later their world fell apart when Bethany, then 15, logged on to a family laptop and discovered Connor had been secretly filming her NAKED in her bedroom since she was just ten.
She found video footage of her getting changed for school, undressing or drying off after showers and, chillingly, a sequence where Connor came into the room to test the cameras.
Sickeningly, for years he had been collecting the images and ogling them in a file he callously named “home videos”.
Disgusted Bethany, now 18, who is training to be a nurse, says: “I felt sick when I found the videos.
“There were ten different sets of footage. In some of them I was in my bra and pants but in others I was completely naked.
“I was in shock staring at the screen and started panicking when the second video showed my stepdad Michael coming into my room in the morning to test the cameras.
“Complete horror washed over me when I realised it was him. I didn’t want to believe it. There were graphic videos of me drying off after a shower. I was shaking as I realised the man I trusted as my dad was a sick pervert.
“I ran into my room frantically looking for the cameras but I couldn’t find anything.
“I desperately wanted to tell my mum but was terrified by Michael after seeing the videos and thought my mum wouldn’t believe me, so I kept it to myself.”
But then, in February this year, Bethany noticed Connor, 39, had been spending more time on his laptop — and she was appalled to find a batch of fresh footage.
She says: “I couldn’t believe he was still recording me. I was sure I’d checked my room before but I was later to find out the cameras he was using were hidden in PENS so I never noticed them.
“This time I confided in my boyfriend Ryan and his shock made me realise I should have told someone the first time round. So I waited for Michael to go out and showed my mum the videos.”
Mum Tracy, 40, sobbed as Bethany also revealed she had found similar images when she was just 15.
But in a shock double betrayal, secretary Tracy begged her daughter not to report her husband to the police.
Bethany, from Leeds, says: “I thought that, by confiding in my mum, I would finally have a weight lifted and my family could be free of Michael. Instead she stuck by him. My stomach lurched as she told me not to go to the police and that we should sort it out as a family.”
While Bethany stood in shock, brother Nathan, 21, ignored his mum’s pleas and called the police.
She says: “I was scared but knew it was the only way to stop Michael if my mum wouldn’t support me.
“Police searched the house after they saw the videos and I was horrified when they found two pinhead cameras in my bedroom.”
In August, Connor pleaded guilty to two charges of voyeurism and got three years’ community service, three years’ probation and five years on the sex offenders’ register. Bethany said: “It was a huge relief.”
But she added: “He’d convinced Mum he did the filming for my own good because he wanted to check I was doing my homework properly.
“I couldn’t believe it — the only film on the computer was me naked or in my underwear.”
She and Nathan have now moved out of the family home and no longer speak to their mum as they cannot accept she has chosen their Peeping Tom stepdad over them.

vicious.sid: A disgusting, perverted man - but what a vile, vile woman.

ElviriaDreamer: Re the camera post...you are correct. What a vile woman! To stand by a seedy pervert over your own child is a disgrace. Some people have no morals and don't understand the meaning of loyalty. SHOCKING! Having found myself in a similar position (being filmed by a seedy, sexual deviant called Barry in Fuerteventura) I can resonate with it all. My daughter has chosen to stand by a seedy pervert who was involved in setting up the filming along with others, over me her mother. She hangs out with everyone involved in setting up the film and fraud of my name/address. DISGUSTING! That's not all of it...but all I will print here. I can no longer have a relationship with her EVER. Even when she finds out the whole truth (and the risk she has placed her children at) and leaves this bloke. It's about respect and loyalty. Some women are a disgrace and care only about their own needs and wants.
 

22.10.12
Five-star Generals
DEFENCE bigwigs blew a staggering £227million last year travelling around the world and staying in posh hotels, an investigation has revealed. The MoD bill for civil servants and top brass was paid despite a cost-cutting operation that has axed 20,000 serving soldiers.
Privileged officials often stayed at lavish venues where the cost of a room — paid by taxpayers — was more than £300 a night. But the MoD was prepared to pay £600 a night at some opulent hotels, the figures reveal.
Colonel Richard Kemp, former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, last night branded the bills “shameful”.
He accused officials of “profligate waste” while squaddies were being laid off, deprived of vital fighting kit and housed in slum barracks.
It is not known which MoD staff lapped up the life of luxury. But one blew £3,000 on five nights at a swanky seafront hotel in Malaysia.
Others were put up at plush venues in Paris, Madrid, Washington — and even London, where the MoD is based.

vicious.sid: That's a bargain! Knowing the MoD, they probably spent £227m in a month on sandwiches for one office.

22.10.12
Chris Brown is on Rih-peat
DIE-HARD RIHANNA fans won’t be happy to hear CHRIS BROWN is close to worming his way back into her life full time. He launched his new website at the weekend in Beverly Hills and she showed up to lend her support.
A source said: “They were hugging, making kissy-faces at each other, laughing and sharing drinks and a cigarette rollie.”
“It’s clear that they’re making no secret things are back on track.”
The pair made a big deal of leaving in separate cars, with Rihanna travelling alongside a girl pal. But it is believed the Diamonds singer has been planning her first public appearance with Chris as a couple.
She’s keen to show up with him at a big awards ceremony, arm-in-arm, over the next few months.

vicious.sid: Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick . . .

22.10.12
Only 'ere for Amir
KELL BROOK wants a shot at Amir Khan so badly that he is ready to give up his world title fight to get it. The Sheffield star is now mandatory challenger for Devon Alexander’s IBF welterweight crown after his stunning third-round KO of Argentine Hector Saldivia on Saturday.
But Brook has also set his sights on a possible all-British affair against Khan.
Khan, 25, fights Carlos Molina in December to get his career back on track after two losses — and a source in his camp revealed Brook is only a lucrative option if he is world champion.
It would be a risky fight for the Bolton boxer considering he has yet to fight at welterweight.
But Brook said: “I would be very hungry for Khan if it came along before the world title challenge. It is personal. The things that he said about me in the past have made it personal. I want to take him out.”
Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn also fancies a clash with Kahn or even with Ricky Hatton.
He said: “The only possible fights that could stop us going for the world title are Khan or Hatton, “We know what Khan’s people are like, they love a pound note.”

vicious.sid: Kelly Brook v Amir Khan? That's a bit one-sided isn't it?
dezza69: @vicious.sid I agree it would be one sided but I am sure Khan would finally realise it is time to quit when Kelly Brook wins

22.10.12
185 MPs take us for a ride in first class
A TOTAL of 185 MPs are claiming for first class rail tickets on their expenses. They exploit a rules loophole that allows them to go first class in some circumstances.
But these tickets can be five times more expensive than the standard fares for the same train.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and ex-Lib Dem Cabinet minister Chris Huhne are among those using the taxpayer-funded perk.
The revelations come days after Chancellor George Osborne sparked controversy by nabbing a first class seat despite having a standard class ticket.
Commons expenses watchdog IPSA had cracked down on the perk after the 2009 scandal.
But under the rules, MPs can buy a first-class ticket if it is cheaper than a standard open fare.
If they buy far enough in advance, the price can be lower.
Figures show 113 Labour 48 Tory, 19 Lib Dem, three SNP and two Plaid Cymru politicians have used the loophole.
Matthew Sinclair of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “MPs should be able to order a standard class ticket in plenty of time - and it will almost always be cheaper.”

vicious.sid: All men are equal, but some are more equal than others. We make the rules so we'll make sure that the plebs pay through the nose for everything (including us) and we'll pay for the least possible. And if we can't get round paying for something, we'll just claim it back from the plebs. You just expect if from politicians - can you imagine if there ever was an honest one . . ? Nah!!!!

22.10.12
Lag of luxury
PRISON Service chiefs have blown millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on hairdressers, taxis and even actors, The Sun can reveal.
Silly money ... where cash has gone The sums were squandered after civil servants signed off an array of vast contracts with private firms to supply the Ministry of Justice.
They included £720,000 paid to actors to take part in role playing to help cons get jobs, £4.5million for private cab firms to ferry inmates and staff around Britain, £84,000 for hairdressers to trim lags’ locks at just three prisons and £100,000 for cons’ toothbrushes.
The figures, obtained in a Freedom of Information probe, show that one taxi firm — Val’s Cars 98 Ltd — pocketed £920,000 alone for its work.
Other firms got £60,000 to set up a radio station at Brixton prison, £58,469 for an “artificial sports pitch” at Wormwood Scrubs while £645,000 went to a counselling company.
A Ministry spokesman said the contracts “help us drive efficency and achieve best value for taxpayers”.
But the TaxPayers’ Alliance said “The Ministry of Justice has to save money.
"It should start by cutting out barmy spending and stop providing prisoners creature comforts that they gave up the right to when they broke the law.”

vicious.sid: Are we surprised? Do we think anything will change? Answers on a postcard . . .

22.10.12
Fergie is the last person on earth you’d want to cross, Rio
The players who've crossed Fergie Jaap Stam DUTCH defender Stam was moved on after revealing in his autobiography that he was tapped up by United before he signed from PSV Eindhoven in 1998.
At the time, Alex Ferguson denied that had anything to do with it and said that the £16.5m fee Lazio offered in 2001 was ‘too good to turn down’.
But Fergie later admitted that selling Stam was his biggest-ever mistake.
David Beckham GOLDENBALLS was forced to pack his bags for Spain a few months after Ferguson kicked a boot that struck Beckham in the face following a 2-0 FA Cup defeat to Arsenal in 2003.
But that was not the only factor in Fergie’s decision, as Becks hinted in his auto- biography My Side.
He said: “The gaffer had had enough. I’d grown up as a person and he didn’t seem to like what I’d become.”
After a 4-1 defeat to Middlesbrough, Keano told Rio Ferdinand: “Just because you are paid £120,000 a week and play well for 20 minutes against Tottenham, you think you’re a superstar.”
United’s former skipper was shown the door in 2005 by Fergie after a series of incidents culminated with an outburst on a tour to Portugal. Relations between the pair remain frosty.
AFTER 150 goals in 210 matches, Ruud van Nistelrooy was sold to Real Madrid in 2006 after criticising Fergie’s tactics and team selection.
Left on the bench for the opening day of the season against Charlton, Van Nistelrooy’s feud with Fergie lasted more than five years.
The pair patched up their differences last year and finally buried the hatchet.
Carlos Tevez was allowed to join rivals City in 2009 after Fergie claimed he had ignored his text messages about a new deal.
Tevez claimed United had taken too long to offer him a new deal and promptly jumped ship. His ‘RIP Fergie’ sign on last season’s title parade means Tevez shouldn’t expect a Christmas card from him anytime soon.
IT’S time for Rio Ferdinand to take a step back. Or else risk tumbling over the precipice.
Everyone understands the point he was trying to make by not joining the rest of the Manchester United team in wearing a Kick It Out top on Saturday — that he didn’t agree with John Terry receiving just a four-game ban for racially abusing his brother Anton.
The £220,000 fine — and anything else added on top by Chelsea — is immaterial.
But Ferdinand is not doing himself, the Kick It Out campaign, his club or Alex Ferguson any favours by continuing to act as the focal point for a group of disgruntled black players who firmly believe the Chelsea skipper got off lightly.
When you start drawing Ferguson into an argument he doesn’t really want to be in, it’s time to ask yourself a few questions.
As it is, Ferdinand is in deepish water by severely embarrassing Ferguson after the Old Trafford boss had said on Friday that ALL United players would be supporting the FA’s anti-racism campaign by wearing the Kick It Out training tops.
Ferguson’s reaction was Ferdinand would be “dealt with”, an interesting scenario seeing the former England skipper chose the week before United’s trip to Stamford Bridge to keep everything bubbling over.
The last person he wants to cross is the still all-powerful Old Trafford chief — as countless United players in the past will confirm.
But even more so in his own case as the United boss has gone out of his way to back him.

vicious.sid: I would be very happy to sit on the bench a couple of times a week  for the rest of my career whilst being paid a couple of hundred thousand quid a week just for upsetting the red nosed one.

22.10.12
Ronnie Barker’s paedophile son will pocket £1.4m legacy after jail term
THE paedo son of comedy legend Ronnie Barker stands to pick up a £1.4million inheritance when he is released from jail in the New Year. Adam Barker, 44, was jailed for a year after he admitted having 1,675 vile images of child abuse on his laptop.
But he could be free in three months after time served on remand and is expected to bank his windfall soon after.
The bit-part telly actor, who had small roles in Wycliffe and Monarch of the Glen, was arrested by Opertation Ore cops in 2004 aftere they tracked credit card payments to paedophile websites.
But he went into hiding for eight years in Hungary - missing both his parents' funerals - before finally handing himself in at a London police station when he had run out of cash.

vicious.sid: That's it now. Now he has money he won't be prosecuted when they catch him again.

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21.10.12
Con-fectionery
SNEAKY chocolate giant Cadbury has shrunk its famous Dairy Milk bar — but not the price. Its weight dropped from 49g to 45g when it was re-designed from a rectangular shape to an oblong — but the cost stayed at 59p.
Cadbury blamed rising fuel and commodity costs.
But Angus Kennedy, of chocolate industry mag Kennedy’s Confectionery, said: “Shaving a portion off, for the same price, can leave a bad taste. Consumers want honesty and don’t want to be treated like idiots.”
Richard Lloyd, head of consumer group Which?, said: “Shrinking products are little more than hidden price rises.”
Cadbury said the eight per cent reduction — which also applies to Caramel and Fruit & Nut bars — meant it could hold prices at current levels. A spokesman said: “That’s important in these difficult times. We still believe our chocolate represents excellent value.”

vicious.sid: Well, you learn something new every day. No, I already knew that Cadbury's and their ilk are out to make as much money as they can with scant regard to their customers. What I've learnt is that there is a difference between a rectangle and an oblong!

21.10.12
Gaga blasts South African duo over her vile video death
Lady Gaga has furiously lashed out at a South African rap act for featuring a likeness of the pop star being shot by rebels and mauled by a lion in their shocking new video. The gruesome Die Antwoord clip for single Fatty Boom Boom stars a man dressed in Gaga’s legendary meat dress who’s taking a sightseeing trip around a run-down South African town.
The minibus Gaga’s double is riding in is suddenly accosted by gun-wielding masked men, forcing the singer to sprint for her life as she’s sprayed with bullets.
Later on, the character is seen feigning pregnancy and delivering a prawn from her genitalia.
Then she gets chased and mauled by a lion on the street.
Having watched the vile vide, the real Lady Gaga has reacted in fury to it.

vicious.sid: Well, well, well - the shocker has been shocked! Well done, Die Antwoord! It's funny how the ones who dish it out the most are the ones who can take it the least.

21.10.12
Fans’ fury as cost of watching footie stars rises five times faster than inflation
THE COST of watching a football match has soared by more than FIVE times the rate of inflation in the past 12 months, a shocking survey has found. The average cost of the cheapest adult ticket in the top four divisions has rocketed by 11.7 per cent from £19.01 to £21.24 - when the current inflation rate stands at just 2.2 per cent.
Supporters groups now fear the hikes in prices may "alienate" fans from our national sport with the most expensive match day ticket found at Arsenal costing a hefty £126 for just 90 minutes' action.
High wages for players such as Manchester United star Wayne Rooney who earns £220,000-a-week is also thought to have contributed to the price of a seat.
Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters' Federation, said: "We want football to be available to all income levels. Certainly at some clubs that is not the case.
"I hear all the time of long-term supporters who have given up season tickets because they resent paying the money they are asked to pay. There is a danger that supporters feel alienated.
"Fans are facing the same economic difficulties as everyone else. Supporters ask why they should pay increased ticket prices when all that happens with that money is more wages for players."

vicious.sid: That's not bad considering the ridiculous wages have risen about 100,000%! Everything about football is pure greed now. It used to cost me one pound twenty to watch Palace in the 70s. Them were t'days.

21.10.12
'Evil dad kept mum prisoner for three days and tortured her. I didn’t even know if she was alive...when she got out I didn’t recognise her'
X FACTOR sensation Jahmene Douglas last night told of the “living hell” that he endured as a child and which robbed him of a brother. Jahmene, his two brothers and sister lived in fear of their father, were forced into refuges and even changed their names to try to evade the control freak’s evil clutches.
Unemployed Eustace Douglas was eventually jailed for a horrific BLOWTORCH attack on Jahmene’s long-suffering mum Mandy — but that did not end the ordeal.
The talented soul singer revealed how his brother took his own life after the pressure of living in a climate of fear became too much.
Speaking out about their hell for the first time, shy Jahmene told The Sun: “Every day I thought, ‘I’m going to die today’.
“It was just torture. It would turn my stomach every time I saw my father. I was living in fear.
“He would flip over anything — you didn’t lie, you didn’t swear, you didn’t put a foot out of place.
“But he’d always find something. Then you’d never know what he would do. There was a spectrum of things: Hitting you with a belt or a spatula, beating or strangling you.
“Once, because I bit my nails, he put a knife under my nail until it started bleeding. Another time he stopped me from eating for two days. I was about seven or eight.”
Things came to an awful head in 2002 after Jahmene’s mum, Mandy Wood, got a job at the Post Office.
She explained: “I got a job and he said I’d never get one. That’s what pushed him over the edge.”
It sparked a three-day ordeal of violence towards Mandy, which saw her imprisoned in her bedroom while her partner carried out the most unimaginable acts of torture.

vicious.sid: What an amazing young man. He could so easily have gone along the path of carrying on the abuse to people smaller and weaker than him like some do. It's just a shame it took so long to jail the lowlife. My wife's mother suffered with regular beatings and now everybody who knows him hates him, he will die a lonely old man and no one cares. He has lost his kids - if I lost my kids that would be enough to kill me. That's about the nearest we'll get to karma. And, just to show what true cowards these men are, the day he stopped was the day that his bullied son (another amazing man who is a lovely bloke) was old enough and the same size as him to stand up to him. That says it all. You can bet your life that Douglas is sucking up and being the comedian to all the men around him when any woman he meets will be in danger.

21.10.12
Rihanna gets back with ex? Well, if you can’t beat ‘em, then join ‘em
TWO soap stars have been blasted for joking about the brutal battering pop beauty Rihanna suffered at the hands of her ex. Hollyoaks actor Ashley Taylor Dawson, 30, and Corrie star Ryan Thomas, 28, face a dressing-down this week from their furious bosses.
Rihanna, 24, ended up in hospital after she was savagely attacked by rapper Chris Brown hours before the Grammys in 2009.
But Dawson — who plays bedhopping Darren Osborne — sparked fury when he cruelly tweeted: “I hear Rihanna is back with Chris Brown... well if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!!”
Thomas — who plays builder Jason Grimshaw — then sent the sick jibe to his 167,000 followers. Channel 4’s Hollyoaks and ITV1’s Corrie both feature anti-domestic violence messages — and campaigners urged them to take action last night. Teresa Parker, from Women’s Aid, said: “Jokes like this one trivialise a very serious issue.
“We have worked with Hollyoaks and Coronation Street to help develop domestic violence storylines and we hope they explain to the actors involved why domestic violence just isn’t funny.”

vicious.sid: Are these PC handwringers having a laugh? Of course it's funny! The whole situation is laughable, she was 'savagely' beaten by a man, she then sings words in a song about loving being hurt and beaten and now she's going back to the savage attacker. Hands up who thinks she'll get another beating eventually! If she had the dignity to refuse to go anywhere near the coward then she would get respect - but to go back for more? We all know the odds on the chances of these types of scumbags ever changing. They are woman-haters and that's that. So why should everyone else tread on eggshells when she's choosing to put herself in danger - nobody is making her. She is helping to put male attitudes to women back quite a few years!

21.10.12
Fergie: Rio has shamed me
FURIOUS Alex Ferguson accused Rio Ferdinand of embarrassing him after boycotting an anti- racism initiative. The England defender will be fined two weeks’ wages of £220,000 with his Manchester United future in doubt.
Fergie said: “He will be dealt with, no doubt about that. I’m disappointed with Rio for not wearing the T-shirt. It’s an embarrassment for me.”
Ferdinand was the only United player who refused to wear a Kick it Out warm-up top before yesterday’s 4-2 win against Stoke.
His protest was in direct defiance of Ferguson who had said on the eve of the game there would be no boycott.
The Old Trafford boss said: “I’m very disappointed because I said in the Press conference yesterday the players would be wearing it.
“We’re all wearing the badges and he goes and lets us down. But we’ll deal with it, don’t worry.”

vicious.sid: Bless him, he's not the brightest light on the christmas tree, is he?

21.10.12
MP’s £23k-a-year from taxpayer funded flat ...while YOU pay the rent at his 2nd home
A SHAMELESS MP rakes in £23,000 a YEAR by letting his taxpayer-funded London pad — while renting another home in the capital at public expense. Labour’s David Crausby charges £1,800 a month for the two-bed flat ten minutes walk from Parliament.
Official records show his mortgage was £395 after interest rates fell in 2009, meaning he makes £1,405 PROFIT if the rate is unchanged.
Yet Mr Crausby, 66, claims £1,823-a-month rent to live in London. He has demanded £33,000 in two years.
The Bolton North East MP, whose salary is £65,738, also paid £51,620 off his mortgage through the old MPs expenses system.
The Westminster flat cost him and wife Enid £285,000 in 2003 and is now worth around £600,000.
He used public cash to renovate, putting £25,000 on the mortgage in 2008 “to refurbish the kitchen, bathroom and toilet”.

vicious.sid: I don't think anything that anyone can say about our wonderful politicians could shock anybody any more. They're no better than the dirty little muggers on the street.

21.10.12
Goalie attack moron served three year footie ban
THE moron who attacked ex-England goalie Chris Kirkland live on TV was banned from matches for three years when he was just 16. Leeds United yob Aaron Cawley, now 21, took part in a terrifying riot in 2007 which saw disabled opposition fans pelted with missiles.
On Friday night, millions of viewers saw him run on to the pitch and floor Sheffield Wednesday keeper Kirkland with a two-handed shove to the face.
He then slipped over before scurrying back into the crowd, smirking with fans as they celebrated their side’s equaliser.

vicious.sid: We all know he'll get a slap on the wrist. Unless he is dropped on like a ton of bricks, all that will happen is it will make him dead proud and it will bolster his image with his like-minded, not very intelligent mates. A ban from football won't make any difference, he's already breached it three times. They'll have to make an example of him - many thousands of pounds fine, taken directly out of his dole money (or from his wages if he has a jo . . . yeah, I know!) so he couldn't afford to travel anywhere to footie and something that would embarrass him and show him to be the prat he really is (oh yeah, human rights, sorry!). But we all know it won't happen. Sigh . . .

21.10.12
We may be out of EU by the end of this decade
THERE are those who say that at the next General Election Britain will face a crossroads in its relationship with the European Union. I believe they are wrong. We are at the crossroads already.
It is clear senior European politicians and Brussels’ bureaucratic class intend to push forward with the concept of ever closer union. They are undeterred by evidence of its failure or the opposition of their people.

vicious.sid: You can just imagine it: loads of MEPs around an enormous pile of Euros, frantically stuffing their pockets before the door closes, just like a game show!!!!!

21.10.12
After Olympic guards’ year of shame... Gongs 4 the Staff (And surprise, surprise ... party security was, er, non-existent)
SHAMED Olympics security firm G4S threw a boozy awards bash to celebrate its “success” — and The Sun breezed in unchallenged to gatecrash the do. Thousands of soldiers had to be drafted in to rescue the London 2012 Games after the company disastrously failed to recruit enough staff.
And — despite a year-long catalogue of this and other blunders — it is still claiming £57million from taxpayers.
300 bosses and workers were watched partying on YOUR cash as gongs were doled out for staff’s “achievements”.
There was no security at the thrash, which went on until 3.30am at Whittlebury Hall, Towcester, Northants.
Man at the helm of disastrous firm ... Nick Buckles Employees of the firm — which rakes in £759million a year from Government contracts — dived into a free bar.
And they scoffed smoked duck and prime fillet steak at the four-star venue where a room can set you back £650.
But other hotel guests were furious when they spotted the G4S logo on revellers’ name tags.
One said: “Isn’t it marvellous to see them having such a great time after they ballsed up the Olympics. Who’d have thought they’d be celebrating so soon.”

vicious.sid: If losing prisoners, messing up major events and cocking-up everything they do and STILL being paid millions and millions of pounds isn't a success, then what is?! If I did that, I would definitely celebrate it, wouldn't you? Now, where are my big brown envelopes . . ?

21.10.12
Compensation disaster as teacher hurt by pasta
SCHOOLS have paid £6.7million in health and safety compo to teachers and pupils — including one to a Miss hurt by PASTA. An investigation by The Sun has uncovered a series of bizarre claims costing taxpayers the equivalent of 304 new teachers’ annual salaries.
Among the handouts over five years was £515 given to a female teacher who tripped on a wire and spilled hot pasta she was cooking on her hands and wrists.
Nearly £20,000 went to a pupil who ran into a playground wall and £730 to a lad who hit himself with a tennis racket.
A teacher was also given £50,000 for slipping on some fruit. Another, from Forest Gate, East London, was handed £800 for being hurt by a football in the yard.
Robert Oxley, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Schools have a duty of care but some of these payouts are beyond ridiculous.” The compensation awards were revealed after Freedom of Information Act requests.

vicious.sid: I knew I should have been a teacher. I broke a fingernail the other day, I would have been hundreds of pounds better off. Sigh . . .

21.10.12
Cheryl can't sing Aloud: Star accused of miming during Stand Up To Cancer charity performance
Cheryl Cole was left humiliated on live TV last night when a technical glitch forced her to whisper her way through her hit Call My Name. The singer's mic appeared to fail at the start of her performance on Channel 4's Stand Up To Cancer - meaning the TV audience could just hear her voice faintly singing along to a musical backing track.
But some viewers have suggested Cheryl was actually miming to a pre-recorded vocal track that technicians forgot to switch on.
The stunning star bravely carried on until the glitch was fixed and her voice returned midway through the second chorus.

vicious.sid: It's obvious: Cheryl insisted on 'singing' live and the sound technician suddenly had a fit of conscience and flipped the switch before she could damage any more ears.

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20.10.12
'Sickened' Jimmy Savile lookalike quits role
A JIMMY Savile impersonator is hanging up his shell suit after the scandal surrounding the ex-DJ. David Chase, 50, dressed as Savile to switch on the Christmas lights last year in his home town of Somerton, Somerset.
He also headed its Olympic torch relay as the star.
He said: “It all seems wrong now.”

vicious.sid: Who the hell told him he looks like Jimmy Savile?
jac163: @vicious.sid ..It's just as well he doesn't.

20.10.12
Dougie: I won’t set Zaha free
PREMIER LEAGUE big boys are welcome to take a look at Wilfried Zaha — but Crystal Palace boss Dougie Freedman insists the club are not ready to sell their prized asset just yet. Wonderkid Zaha, 19, is one of the most exciting prospects in the country and is a regular for the England Under-21s.
He has set the Championship on fire this season, blasting Palace up to fourth spot in the table, and his progress has not gone unnoticed from the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham.
Freedman said: “Arsenal are welcome to come watch our players, we have the best youngsters outside of the Premier League, so they won’t be disappointed but Wilfried is on a five-year deal.”
The Scot knows he will not be able to hold onto Zaha forever if he continues to improve at his current rapid rate.
But he reckons, for now, the best thing the Ivory Coast-born forward can do is stay put and learn his trade with the Eagles.
Freedman added: “The day will come when Wilfried is ready to leave us for the Premier League but that is not today.
“With a bit of luck we’ll all get there together and he won’t need to leave. He is a lovely kid who loves coming into training and seeing his friends.
“When he goes off with England U-21s he misses being at the club.
“Nathaniel Clyne started around 120 games for us, he was ready to leave. Wilfried’s on more like 70. There’s no substitute for learning your trade.”

vicious.sid: Please stick to your guns, Dougie. We have had some fantastic players in the last few years and we've sold them almost immediately. Palace can't keep doing that. Stick with us, Wilfried, you're a fantastic player and we need you. To go from rock bottom to fourth in a matter of weeks isn't bad is it? Keep this up and they'll be getting some real men playing real football in the Premier next year! Yes, we may do our usual trick and go straight down again but at least for one season there'll be at least one team that aren't a bunch of nancyboys, falling over if anyone gets within six inches of them. Come on you Palace!!!!!

20.10.12
Nick Griffin banned from Twitter after threatening gay couple
THE Twitter account of BNP leader Nick Griffin has been suspended after he threatened a gay couple. The Far-Right politician caused outrage by tweeting the home address of Michael Black and John Morgan and telling them a "British Justice Team" was coming to get them.
His comments came after the pair won a court case against Christian B&B owners who refused to let them stay there.
The court ruled the couple had suffered unlawful discrimination.
However, Griffin branded them "bullying gay activists" before tweeting their home address to his followers.
He then said the "team" would give them a "bit of drama" and remind them that an Englishman's home is his castle.
The vile tweets caused outrage on the social networking site, with users branding Griffin "despicable", "pathetic and "sick".

vicious.sid: Has he been taking lessons from Cameron and his dopy mob on how to shoot yourself in the foot?

20.10.12
Scottish mum films UFO hovering in the sky above her home
A STUNNED Scottish family believe they saw a UFO hovering in the sky above their home last Saturday. Morag Ritchie, 50, woke up to see strange lights floating in the air over fields behind her cottage in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.
Glowing orbs were flickering in the distance on an unidentified object in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The grandmother-of-two was so shocked she woke up her family at 2am to show them.
And her daughter Cara’s fiance Scott Bower, 24, even managed to film the strange sighting.
Morag said: “I woke up in the early hours of Saturday morning and just seemed to be drawn to look out of the window.
“Our house is quite rural so I don’t close my bedroom curtains. I like to have them open.
“I saw these lights and thought they looked very strange.
“I went through and got my daughter’s fiance and he came to have a look. He was shocked. He went outside to film it. There was no noise - just silence.
“There was a sequence of lights flickering and occasionally a light shot out from it.
“I eventually went back to bed and woke up a few hours later and it was still there in the same spot.
“I’ve never seen anything like it before.”

vicious.sid: Thank you for showing me where the sky is, I was a bit confused.

20.10.12

On an economy drive, Chancellor? George Osborne charged £160 after being caught in First Class carriage with a standard train ticket
He is the Chancellor - and today he once again tried to bring in some efficiencies.
But when George Osborne, who is believed to have a personal wealth of £4.6million, sneakily tried to ride in First Class on a standard fare ticket, he finally met his match - a ticket inspector who refused to budge, and made him pay the full £160 upgrade.
The Cheshire MP was seen arguing with train staff, after he refused to move from the First Class carriages on the train from Wilmslow to London.
TV's reporter Rachel Townsend was on the same train, and gave a running commentary on Twitter as the Osborne's aide argued with the ticket inspector.
She said: 'George Osborne got on the train with aides at Wilmslow and went straight to first class.
'Then his aide approached the ticket collector right next to me. He said he is travelling with George and he has a standard ticket but can he remain in first class?
'The guard said no. The aide said Osborne couldn't possibly sit in standard class. The guard replied saying if he wants to stay it's £160.'
She continued: 'The aide said he couldn't pay and he couldn't really sit in standard. The guard refused to budge.

vicious.sid: Pure arrogance. A man totally removed from the real world. This lot have shot themselves in the foot so much they don't have any feet left. He has now had to shoot himself in the shin. Kneecaps next.

20.10.12
Google and Samsung take on the tablets with £229 laptop 'for everyone'
Google hopes a new low cost laptop could tempt buyers away from new tablets from Apple and Microsoft.
The lightweight computer will sell for £229 ($249) and is being made with Samsung.
It was revealed just days before Apple is expected to unveil a low cost version of its iPad tablet, and Microsoft and Amazon begin selling their tablet computers.
Google has launched an aggressive advertising campaign for its new laptop, claiming the £229 machine is 'for everyone'
Unlike a traditional laptop, the Chromebook has no hard drive, instead keeping all of its information on Google's servers.
This means that while most functions can still be used without an internet connection, some are limited.
Google also supplies a virtual Drive for the machine, which users can also access from a desktop Pc and even their mobile phone.
The Google machine's software is based on Google's Chrome web browser.
Like other so-called Chromebooks, this laptop doesn't have a hard drive, instead storing information on Google's internet servers.

vicious.sid: What a crock. You can only work on it if you are in a Wi-Fi area because it's all on their servers. And who has less than 100gb stored on their laptops? If you use more than that you have to pay. When you've stored all your work on their servers, they'll just sieve through it, picking out the information they need at their leisure. Whoever falls for this is an idiot!

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19.10.12

Cameron snubs hero cops

DAVID Cameron snubbed hero cops yesterday — amid the fallout over the Gategate scandal. His no-show at a No10 event for Police Bravery Award winners came as MPs prepared to debate Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell’s outburst at Downing Street cops.The PM went to Brussels for an EU summit where he met conservative politicians Tories are aligned with in the European Parliament.Before that he visited a building site in Victoria, central London.

Labour’s shadow policing minister David Hanson said: “It’s unbelievable that the PM couldn’t find time to pop into the awards.

“They are a recognition of the service our police do. We should all celebrate their achievements.”

Mr Cameron’s spokeswoman said: “The Prime Minister did send his apologies and recorded a message for the awards. If there wasn’t a compulsory European summit, he would have liked to be there.”

Home Secretary Theresa May did attend the regional awards for officers from eight forces. Among those she met was PC Alex Stypulkowski, the Hampshire winner.

He was stabbed in the back and neck with a screwdriver while trying to arrest a crazed man. Chairman of the Police Federation Paul McKeever said: “PC Stypulkowski fearlessly put his life on the line.”

vicious.sid: As I said in previous posts, politicians don't give a toss about this country - as is blatantly obvious - all they care about is where the next bit of filthy lucre is coming from. Politicians make me sick to the core.

19.10.12
A tRoo legend
THIS weekend marks the anniversary of Wayne Rooney's wonder strike which saw him become a tRoo legend. The Scouser made his mark as a 16-year-old by scoring a ‘boy wonder’ goal to help Everton defeat Arsenal at Goodison Park on October 20, 2002.
We relive the moment that had every fan on the edge of their seat hailing the new messiah of English football by hearing from some of the players involved that day.

vicious.sid: Isn't it amazing? Didn't he lift his shirt to show 'Forever Blue' written on his vest or something like that? How long is forever? One second of your life can make you a multi multi millionaire and have millions of blinkered people falling at your feet and worshipping you, no matter what you do from then on. And it was just about the way he kicked a ball! Never mind all the people who risk their lives every single day for strangers and get nothing. If he didn't score that goal, there's no way he would be being paid a million pounds a month now. His ego made him lose the plot years ago. He has scored one or two fancy goals since then but that's it. He has never made any difference for England ever, he can't even pass the ball 20 yards! Someone must have been looking down on him. Life's a funny old game, isn't it?

19.10.12
Branded by thug boyfriend’s ring
BRAVE Gemma Ford spoke out last night about the ex-lover who beat her so savagely her face was branded with the word DAD from a ring he wore. Gemma, 28, suffered a broken nose, severe bruising and two black eyes in a 30-minute attack by brutal Richard Mullen.
He tried to strangle her before beating her to a pulp. And when police arrested vile Mullen next day, they found an axe and a balaclava in his car.
The ring mark was visible for three weeks.
Mullen was jailed for 36 months in May — but after serving half his sentence he is back on the streets. Mum-of-four Gemma, of Skegness, Lincs, has decided to relive her ordeal as a warning to other women. She had ended the relationship over his flirting.
But that night as she lay in bed, Mullen, 37, took revenge.
Gemma said: “I remember his thumbs were pressing against my windpipe and he was saying, ‘You bitch, you’re not going to wake up in the morning’.
“Then he let go and started kicking and punching me. I remember his ring hitting me.
“He looked possessed and I was terrified.”
Mullen, of Spilsby, Lincs, admitted ABH and possessing a bladed article at Lincoln Crown Court. Gemma added: “His sentence was disgusting. He has an appalling record of domestic violence. I want women to know what he is capable of.”

vicious.sid: DAD??!!!! His kids will be SO proud of him. My wife used to witness her mum being beaten by her dad regularly and now he is a lonely old man without any love from anybody else. Everybody in the family hates him and will never have anything to do with him. He will die on his own because he is such a nasty person. Never mind, eh?

19.10.12
Schoolkids suspended for seeing teacher's topless snap
A RANDY schoolteacher accidentally sent photos of her naked breasts to her pupils — and the children were SUSPENDED for looking at them. The class had been playing with a school iPad during a lesson when the topless pictures popped up on the screen.
The teacher's iPhone is believed to have accidentally synched with the tablet device — and transferred all her naughty private snaps.
Four pupils playing a game on the iPad clicked on the folder and got a surprise peek.
Now THEY have been suspended and threatened with expulsion from Highland Middle School in Anderson, Indiana, US.
The punishment infuriated their parents who insist the teacher is to blame.
One of the suspended pupils, 13-year-old Joshua Troutt, told a local TV station an image of his teacher's bare chest appeared on screen unexpectedly when his classmate pressed a button.
He said: "The picture showed up of the teacher topless. It's not our fault that she had the photo on there.
"We couldn't do anything to not look at it, if it just popped up when he pressed the button.
"It was her fault that she had the photo on there. Her iPhone synched to it. She had to have pressed something to make all of her photos synch on there."
The school district said it has taken action against the teacher, but refused to specify what action, only that she is still a member of the school staff.

vicious.sid: I am so, so glad that iPads weren't invented in my day. Is there such a thing as a 'daymare' (like a nightmare but during the day)? I've just had one, imagining any of my female teachers doing the same! All I can say is that I'm glad teachers were more conservative back in the old days!!!!!

19.10.12
It costs a bomb
TALIBAN fighters are being forced to curb attacks using improvised explosive devices — after the cost of making them QUADRUPLED in the past year. Insurgents building lethal booby traps now pay up to £500 for the bombs — £375 more than in 2011, the deputy commander of the Nato mission revealed yesterday.
The price rise has seen a 30 per cent fall in IED attacks in areas where British troops are deployed in Afghanistan.
Lt Gen Adrian Bradshaw said the cost hike was due to equipment shortages. The seizure of lucrative narcotics and a poor poppy harvest also hit insurgents.
Speaking about Regional Command East, where coalition troops are on patrol, he said: “An IED that last year cost insurgents $200 will now cost between $600 and $800 to build. This is indicative of a shortage of material. In the Sangin area, insurgents are going after people whose family members accidentally detonate an IED.
“They are extracting forced apologies, flogging them and recovering the costs of the IEDs from that family.”

vicious.sid: I think I've seen it all now. The cost of inflation and raw materials has hit petrol, food, clothing and bomb-making! That's just about everything covered now. In fact, the IEDs are getting so expensive that when the families who make them accidentally detonate them, it costs them and arm and a leg!

19.10.12
Wyclef Jean poses in pants straddling bike to celebrate 43rd birthday
HIP hop star Wyclef Jean celebrates his 43rd birthday - by straddling a motorcycle in his pants covered in baby oil. The former Fugees frontman celebrated the milestone by posting the bonkers picture on Twitter.
He accompanied the ripped snap with the caption: “TODAY I AM 43 YEARS OLD! I look And feel 26! U cant keep ‡ good Man down! Keep ‡ smile when they want you to frown!”
His skimpy red and blue pants matched the colour of his Ducati motorcycle - a red, white and blue ride complete with American flag.

vicious.sid: Sorry, Wyclef, but that is one dodgy photo!!!!!!

19.10.12
Boy, 11, banned from Scouts because he doesn’t believe in God
AN 11-year-old boy has been banned from joining the Scouts — because he doesn’t believe in GOD. George Pratt has been attending his local Scout group for ten months and was over the moon when they invited him to invest in the group.
But the schoolboy was unable to swear allegiance to God and the Queen because he is an atheist.
As a result he has been banned from attending and his furious dad Nick, 45, has accused the Christian movement of being "intolerant".
Nick said: “Christianity is meant to be about being tolerant, forgiving and understanding.
“You are allowed to join if you are a Christian or a Muslim but you can’t not believe in God.
“This is regardless of the fact that you are sensitive, generous, kind and genuinely a good person.
“There are a lot of Christian organisations which do not exclude anybody. It just seems the Scouts in this area isn’t one of them.”

vicious.sid: Ridiculous! Times have changed, if you can change it to different religions, you can change it to atheism. Why not just change it to “On my honour, I promise that I will do my best, To do my duty to the Queen and to the good of my fellow man, To help other people, And to keep the Scout Law” or something? Just because you believe in a god doesn't mean you are a good person. Look at what's been going on with priests and terrorists for example. Everything religion touches, it spoils.

19.10.12
Roo tweet treat
WAYNE ROONEY went on Twitter last night to promise England fans that the players and the FA would cover the cost of their tickets. He tweeted: “The players’ @EFFCharity & @FA will cover ticket costs of every fan in the stadium 2nite. Thx 2 every1 of them 4 their amazing support.”
England skipper Steven Gerrard added: “We don’t take their support for granted.”
Fellow midfielder James Milner said: “It is a nice gesture that they will get their tickets paid for.
“Maybe they will all have better weather when they get to Brazil!”

vicious.sid: What about us poor mugs who watched the debacle on television? What about the mental anguish we suffered? What about those who put their foot through the television? I will be sitting by the letterbox waiting for my cheque.

19.10.12
Tough schoolboy’s gate escape
ONE of the country’s toughest schoolboys has told how he survived being crushed by a half-tonne metal gate. Ethan Kosak-Hine — who is in the GB taekwondo training squad — was closing the barrier on his drive when it fell on top of him.
Mum Maria rushed from their house to find him squashed under the 5ft x 12ft gate, which weighs the same as a car.
With her mother Sharon Kosak, 63, and partner, Paul, 41, she managed to lift it off Ethan and they pulled him to safety.
The 12-year-old’s left foot was “dangling” off with bone sticking out of the bottom of his leg.
Cool-headed former healthcare assistant Sharon stemmed the blood loss before air ambulance medics took Ethan to the Royal London Hospital where surgeons managed to reattach his foot. Now he’s vowed to be back in martial arts training.

vicious.sid: Isn't that a bit over the top? A half-tonne gate? They must be living in a war zone and it's to keep the tanks out! Very strange.

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18.10.12
Boy tied to a tree and set on fire at 8 names 'attacker' on death-bed
A BOY who was tied to a tree, doused in petrol and set on fire on his eighth birthday has finally named his attacker. Robbie Middleton suffered third-degree burns to 99 per cent of his body in the horrific assault in April 1998.
He was not expected to survive but surprised doctors by clinging to life.
He would eventually go through over 200 agonising operations over 13 long years before dying in 2011 from skin cancer doctors blame on his injuries.
He would have turned 21 just weeks later.
Nobody was charged with the unthinkable atrocity - but Robbie, from Splendora, Texas, may yet have justice.
For he made a shocking 17-minute video statement from his hospital bed naming local boy Don Collins - then just 13 - as his attacker.
In a shocking twist, he also claimed that Collins had raped him two weeks earlier - and set him alight to silence him over the assault.
Robbie's death-bed accusations have paved the way for Collins, now a 27-year-old convicted sex offender, to be charged with felony murder in September.
Robert Ray 'Robbie' Middleton was enjoying his eighth birthday on 29 April 1998 when he met Collins - a neighbour - on a wooden path near their homes.
"Don grabbed me by my shoulder and threw gas in my face, after that I don't really remember anything," Robbie said in his video statement.
A fortnight earlier, according to Robbie's statement, Collins had overpowered and raped him at the same spot.
Robbie's mum Colleen was one of the first on the scene after the fire attack.
She said of her boy's ordeal: "It was so hard to take in what my eyes were seeing.
"All of his hair was scorched, and there was skin hanging around his ankles.
"A little while later, I walked down to the tree where it happened. There was a perfect outline of Robbie’s body scorched into the bark of the tree."

vicious.sid: What a shocking, terrible story. How can a human being do this to another human being? What a strong young man, his parents must be so proud of him. I have to think that he was put on this earth for such a short time to teach us all something. I am numb, I am struggling to come to terms with the amount of purely evil people in this world. I hope Collins is not executed, this piece of scum does not deserve a quick ending. But I hope and pray that the prison he goes to is not like an English prison. I hope he suffers every day. And this poor mite held on to this pain for 13 years thinking he was saving others when, in fact, the opposite was happening. All you doubters of the victims in the 'Savile' case who are wondering why it is all coming out now, years later - there is your example, people do this purely because of FEAR. Rest in peace, young man, you deserve it. I have never met you but I feel a great pride for you. I despair - whatever next?

Poland 1 England 1 - Roy's Boys Throw Away Victory
ROY HODGSON could only look on as his England troops blew the chance to take three points back from their delayed World Cup qualifier in Poland. Wayne Rooney had headed the Three Lions into a 31st-minute lead after the game finally went ahead following last night’s waterlogged pitch.
But when the same man fluffed a chance to double the scoreline midway through the second half, Hodgson’s men then immediately conceded at the other end.
Kamil Glik struck on 70 minutes, nodding the equaliser after Joe Hart flapped at a corner.
And while the England boss brought on Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in search of a winner, it was Poland who finished the stronger.
But the draw at least sees the Three Lions top Group H on eight points, having played one game more than second-placed Montenegro who have seven.
They were as sluggish as the pitch itself.

vicious.sid: Normal service has been resumed. What was that you were saying, Roy, about this wonderful new England side with their intelligent passing game? Now we're not playing part-timers, everything is back to frustrating normal. The passing was atrocious (the main offenders for giving the ball away were Rooney and Carrick, surprise, surprise) and they had no idea what to do in the final third of the pitch. Who's idea was it to try to defend a 1-0 lead so early? Very, very bad idea - you just knew it wasn't going to happen. Sigh . . .

18.10.12
Load of Balkans
ENGLISH football was in uproar last night after the FA was charged over an Under-21s clash which saw our players subjected to racist taunts and an ugly post-match brawl. Amid sickening scenes at Serbia’s Mladost stadium, Three Lions stars were targeted by monkey chants from the crowd and goalie Jack Butland was peppered with missiles.
Violence then erupted after England snatched a last-gasp winner, with attacks on both visiting players and officials.
Goalkeeping coach Martin Thomas was sent reeling by a headbutt, midfielder Danny Rose said he was whacked, team coach Stuart Pearce had a seat thrown at him — and assistant Steve Wigley was mauled as he headed for the tunnel.
But yesterday Serb soccer chiefs DENIED any racism at Tuesday’s European Under-21 Championship play-off second leg in Krusevac — and accused Rose of “unsportsmanlike” behaviour.
And last night UEFA soccer bosses announced they had charged both the Serbian and English football associations over the night’s shocking events.
They said in a statement that disciplinary proceedings would be launched against the Balkans side’s association over “alleged racist chanting” and the Serb players’ after-match antics.

vicious.sid: "Whatever I did, it wasn't me". Enough is enough from the Serb barbarians. If they haven't learned how to be civilised by now, I don't think it will ever happen. This country has only ever settled disputes with violence and then blamed everybody else after. Nothing has changed. Ban them from all world tournaments for at least ten years. The only way people like this will ever learn is through their pockets - loss of revenue. In this day and age it is a disgraceful, embarrassing and downright sleazy way to act. These lads were pushed far beyond any limit of provocation but the idiotic wimps at the FA will just pay their fine without fighting it as usual and the Serbs will get a smack on the wrist and nothing will change as usual. Sigh . . .

18.10.12
Cop tasers blind man in street White stick mistaken for Samurai sword
A BUNGLING policeman tasered a blind man in the street after mistaking his white stick – for a Samurai SWORD. He struck Colin Farmer, 61, in the back with the 50,000-volt stun gun before handcuffing him.
The shocked man had been on his way to his local pub to meet friends.
Cops had earlier received reports of a man roaming Chorley town centre, Lancs, armed with a sword.
A patrolman spotted stoke victim Mr Farmer shuffling down the street with his white stick and wrongly assumed he was the swordsman.
Mr Farmer, who used to run an architect’s practice, has now made a formal complaint and is pursuing legal action against Lancashire Police, which has apologised and begun an investigation.

vicious.sid: Is it April already? I think this officer should be awarded with his own white stick! Unless Mr Farmer was swinging the white stick around his head and snarling at people I think maybe the officer should have first walked up to him, out of swinging distance, and took stock of the situation. Is this a mad swordsman frothing at the mouth or a blind man shuffling up the road with a white stick? I'm sure he could have worked it out if he had used his brain!!! And surely, once the white stick was knocked from his grasp someone would have noticed that it wasn't a razor-sharp sword before they knelt on him and slapped on the handcuffs! Surely nobody could be that stupid!!! Sigh . . .
rotten.jonny: This truly sums up our British police force, no doubt this will be swept under the carpet. It seems an IQ test isn't required to enter the police force. These people become police officers as they are attracted to power, when you then put a taser in their hand they see it as a way to dominate a situation. They think they can use it without any consequences as it's not a lethal weapon. This officer should not just be stripped of his taser, but his badge, his uniform and his dignity in the same way this poor innocent man was. This sort of incident happens nearly every day and the police are just allowed to carry on without punishment.

18.10.12
Dopes: Dozy FA gave England players sleeping tablets
ENGLAND players were given sleeping tablets before delivering a dozy performance in Poland. Roy Hodgson’s side scraped a draw when Wayne Rooney’s opener was cancelled out by Kamil Glik.
The World Cup qualifier was staged 20 hours after the match was initially postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
But SunSport understands players were handed the sleeping pills when returning to the team hotel in Warsaw on Tuesday evening.
This unusual step will come as an embarrassment as a number of players delivered poor displays in a game Poland could have won.
Hodgson admitted last night: “On Monday, after the training session on the pitch, the players were looking very sharp and lively. I didn’t get that impression today.”
The Three Lions squad slept on Tuesday afternoon and some players were given ProPlus caffeine tablets ahead of the original 8pm kick-off.
And the sleeping pills were dished out when the game was put back to 4pm the following day.
Skipper Steven Gerrard said: “When you’re fired-up, pumped-up, you’ve had your massages and you’re ready to go, a postponement is not ideal but we’re professionals.
“We’re playing at the top level and we had to get ourselves up for this but I didn’t think we were totally at the races.
“I slept fine. I won’t use the delay and conditions as an excuse.
“The reason we didn’t win was we didn’t pass it when we went in front.”
Amazingly, England had only one attempt on target during the match.
And that was the first-half goal which bounced off Rooney’s shoulder.
It was the fourth time in 11 games under Hodgson that England have mustered just one attempt on target.
Hodgson attempted to blame the turf and the day delay as factors for the poor showing.
He said: “The pitch was soggy — it was suited to a long-ball game not a passing game.
“And the extra 36 hours spent in a hotel waiting to play didn’t do us any favours.”

vicious.sid: What, they take sleeping pills for EVERY match???? When someone starts spouting excuse after excuse and can't be honest and just say "I got the tactics wrong" or "the team are absolute rubbish" then that person has to go. Some of his excuses are bordering on the ridiculous. His excuse about the pitch only being suitable for the long-ball game and then putting on DeFoe, the shortest man on the pitch instead of Carroll, a prolific header of the ball? Huh . . ?

18.10.12
Sweary, sweary quite contrary
SHAMED Andrew Mitchell was under renewed pressure to quit as Tory Chief Whip last night after dramatically changing his story in the Gategate row. He DENIED swearing at Downing Street cops — despite previously admitting he DID.
Some Tory backbenchers called for Mr Mitchell to consider his position. And Labour leader Ed Miliband said he was “toast” and in an “untenable” position.
Senior Tory sources also admitted Mr Mitchell was “weakened” after Mr Miliband taunted him at Prime Minister’s Questions in the Commons.
It was revealed last month that cops in Downing Street claimed Mr Mitchell called them “f****** plebs” when they refused to open the main gates for his bike.
At the time, he denied using the words attributed to him — but admitted he swore during the row.
Yesterday he contradicted that at PMQs by mouthing “I didn’t, I didn’t” as Mr Miliband said people who swear at police should expect to be arrested. The Labour leader retorted: “He says he didn’t. Maybe he will tell us what he actually did say.” Mr Miliband said a yob who swore at police would expect a night in the cells — but Mr Mitchell had enjoyed a night at a posh club.

vicious.sid: Lesson Number One for all would-be politicians. To be a politician you MUST be an accomplished liar. BUT to be an accomplished liar you MUST have a very good memory. Mitchell obviously does not have a very good memory. What a total bonehead!

18.10.12
Horse-in-house woman in bother for flushing pony poo down the loo
A HORSE lover who lives with her pony has ended up in deep water — for flushing her nag’s poo down the toilet. Stephanie Noble, 66, caused neighbours a mare after the animal’s manure clogged sewage pipes.
Scottish Water chiefs have now ordered her to stop dumping the dung in the loo to prevent more blockages.
An insider said: “They’ve told her she can’t do this.
“It’s not so much the manure but what’s in it — like hay — that clogs the pipes.
“Some are only four inches wide and it doesn’t take a lot to block them.”
In January Stephanie moved four-year-old Grey Lady Too into her home in Back on the Isle of Lewis after a dispute with the pony’s stable owners.
She last night insisted the blockage was a “one-off” and she had “no other option”. Scottish Water said: “Our sewers are designed for human waste and toilet paper only.”

vicious.sid: Now that is weird! Can you imagine the stench from just the horse's farting, let alone the pooing?? Would you go round her's for tea? Look at all the land around the house, just spread it on the plants. Very weird.

18.10.12
Dolphins stay awake 15 days
DOLPHINS can stay awake for 15 days or more by shutting down half their brain at a time, scientists revealed yesterday. The amazing trick allows the mammals to come to the surface when they need to breathe — and to stay vigilant for sharks.
Researchers kept two bottlenose dolphin — a male called Nay and a female called Say — hunting phantom “prey” over lengths of time that would have left other animals sleep deprived and exhausted.
The creatures, which find food by sonar, were bombarded with man-made echoes for five days at a time and found the targets with a success rate of up to 99 per cent. Say, who outperformed her male partner in San Diego, California, was then tested for 15 days and her performance hardly faltered.
Scans confirm dolphins are capable of “unihemispheric sleep” — snoozing with one side of the brain — while often keeping one eye open. Researcher Brian Branstetter said: “These majestic beasts are true unwavering sentinels of the sea.”

vicious.sid: That just shows how much further evolved humans are. Most of them are able to keep half their brains shut down permanently.

18.10.12
Rylan’s Grey-t mate
HYPERACTIVE X Factor wannabe Rylan Clark has bagged a new buddy... GANDALF THE GREY. Legendary actor Sir Ian McKellen met the Essex “singer” at a gay mag awards bash this week and the pair immediately hit it off.
Lord Of The Rings star Sir Ian told Rylan he was backing him all the way.
And after swapping numbers, the stage and screen veteran told him he’ll help him navigate the choppy waters of the showbiz world.

vicious.sid: OMG! Just for a second I thought Sid James had been resurrected!!!

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17.10.12
Tanked-up, Tara? Palmer-Tomkinson's sweet end to a heavy night of partying
BLEARY-eyed Tara Palmer-Tomkinson stocks up on junk food after a boozy awards bash. The socialite looked ready for bed as she shopped for sweet treats at a late-night convenience store in London.
She was seemingly struggling to keep her peepers open as she perused racks of confectionary.
Tara had spent the evening with the likes of Pixie Lott and Little Mix at a prize-giving ceremony held by gay mag Attitude.
The party animal already appeared worse for wear when she turned up at the Mayfair bash, striking a series of wild expressions outside the venue.

vicious.sid: She's trying to remember why she's famous.

17.10.12
Rain stops play on the FOOTBALL pitch: England's World Cup qualifier in Poland postponed (... but why wasn't the stadium roof closed when the heavens opened?)
England's key World Cup qualifying tie against Poland descended into farce last night as heavy rain left the pitch unplayable - after officials ignored the weather forecasts and refused to close the stadium's retractable roof.
Thousands of fans who had travelled to eastern Europe for the game against Poland were left infuriated as officials stood and watched as a torrential downpour struck in Warsaw.
Heavy rain had been falling in the Polish capital for most of the day but still the roof of the £400million state-of-the-art stadium stayed open and gradually the playing surface disappeared under pools of water.
The match was eventually called off - but only after fans, and millions watching on television at home, were left waiting 45 minutes for the decision to be made.

vicious.sid: Don't just feel sorry for the English fans, what about the thousands of Polish fans who had to make the trek home to England?

17.10.12
Cops stung by £120k fine after info theft when door is opened to let out a wasp
A POLICE force has been fined £120,000 after secret information was nicked from a cop’s home when he left a door open to let out a WASP. An intruder snatched a memory stick containing details of 1,075 people who had given information about drug dealers. It also included data on targets for arrest.
The USB, which was not encrypted or password protected, was taken from the detective’s wallet which had been left on the kitchen table.
The thief also took the keys to the officer’s car which was stolen from outside his house in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Yesterday the Information Commissioner’s Office, which levied the huge fine on Greater Manchester Police, said last July’s blunder “sent a shiver down the spine”.
Its report blasted “significant failings” and said those named on the stick were now “at risk of physical harm” and had suffered substantial distress.
A force spokesman called it “an isolated incident” and said the officer had been temporarily suspended before “being dealt with by internal procedures”.

vicious.sid: Hmmmm. Very strange. A thief sees a wallet on a table in a house and stands there, opens the wallet and takes the USB stick worth a fiver and leaves the wallet which, more than likely, had cash and credit cards in it? Something doesn't add up here. I would have thought that even the most brain-dead thief would just grab the wallet and run and then look to see what's in the wallet. And as for it not being encrypted . . !!! In this day and age, after all the scandals that have happened in the past and a police officer is carrying around unencrypted extremely sensitive information in his wallet? Heads should roll. And not just his - what the hell were his superiors doing? I don't think we are being told everything here.

17.10.12
Statue’s a liberty
A CONTROVERSIAL Damien Hirst statue of a 67ft-high naked pregnant woman was unveiled in a seaside town yesterday — amid fears it will be a target for SEAGULLS. The steel and bronze work, named Verity, has been loaned by Hirst to Ilfracombe, Devon, where he has a home.
But hotel boss Sue Dale said: “I hope it doesn’t become an eyesore with seagull and pigeon droppings.”

vicious.sid: You have to admit, he's either very clever or very lucky. Most of his stuff is absolute rubbish. I imagine he started out just to shock people but a couple of "trendies" latched on and paid loads of money for something that absolutely anybody could do. We would all want to be paid obscene amounts of money for churning out garbage and he's succeeded! Anyone who pays tens of thousands of pounds for what he does either needs their heads examined or are very clever because some other "trendy" weirdo will buy it off of them for even more money in a few years. A fool and his money are soon parted. Clever or just lucky? You decide!

17.10.12
I don’t want to be remembered as that gay muslim from EastEnders
SOAP star Marc Elliott insists he had to quit EastEnders because he was afraid he would only be remembered for playing “the gay muslim”. Actor Marc has now finished filming his final explosive scenes for EastEnders, which air next month.
While tonight his character Syed Masood is set to marry long-term boyfriend Christian Clarke (played by John Partridge, BBC1 7.30pm).
Marc broke down taboos when Syed became soap’s first openly gay muslim, sparking 125 complaints when the pair were shown kissing in bed before the 9pm watershed.
But after almost four years he admits that, despite his pride at being involved in the role, he feared it would overshadow the rest of his acting career.
Marc, now starring in Tape in London’s West End, said: “I didn’t want to be remembered as that lad from EastEnders, the gay muslim. That’s why you get into the business, to find new characters.”

vicious.sid: That's ok then, because I don't remember him as the gay muslim from EastEnders.

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16.190.12

Vinnie Jones spotted with Russian blonde No 2
VINNIE Jones is facing a fresh row with wife Tanya over footage of him with a SECOND Russian beauty. He admitted flirting was “like a hobby” as he was shown on Moscow TV with Alisa Krylova, 30.
The telly report showing him with former Miss Russia Alisa, which aired the same day, said: “Having promised Alisa a role in his next movie, Vinnie spent all evening with her.”
“In the new film we need a goddess — a Russian Angelina Jolie.”

vicious.sid: What a stupid man! He has a wife like that and wants other women - I don't get it. It has to be a lack of self worth to fall for it. In Cyprus you see beautiful young Russian women with fat, hairy, sweaty old Cypriot men and you know they must be rich! These men think everyone is impressed but everyone is laughing at them, knowing they'll be skint soon!!!

16.10.12
Don’t dare doubt Lions’ pride
STEVEN GERRARD last night came out fighting against Patrick Vieira — and insisted England’s young stars DO dream about playing for their country. Arsenal and France legend Vieira claimed youngsters in our national set-up are not bothered about playing for Roy Hodgson’s senior side any more.
But skipper Gerrard, who returns from a ban to win his 99th cap against Poland tonight, said: “I don’t really care what Patrick Vieira says.
“It surprised me to read that. The impression I get from young players at Liverpool is that they’re desperate to get into this set-up.
“You can see in their faces that, when they’re left out, it has disappointed them. The young players are hungry.”

vicious.sid: Of course there is pride in England - it's their country and they should be proud. Unfortunately kids look up to these overpaid, arrogant, preening nancyboys we call Premier Footballers and want to be them. People with not much intelligence and the biggest egos on the planet - a dangerous combination. All the kids see are the expensive cars and money with minimum effort. The amount of cheating that goes on in just one PL match is very, very frustrating. It is sickening when you watch youngsters playing and they're falling over and rolling about and shouting and acting like the idiots on television. My team is in the Championship and when they occasionally get into the PL they soon come out again! But these are real men, playing a real contact sport - not some overpaid actors who roll around the pitch if they break a fingernail and get up immediately when they have 'won' the free kick or penalty. Of course cheating goes on in the Championship, but it is the tiniest fraction compared to the nancyboys. Unfortunately these people are at the forefront of the beautiful game and are being watched by everybody. So if you want respect, man up and play football how it should be played. And be role models and play FAIRLY, without the cheating! But we know it'll never happen. Sigh . . .

16.10.12
Future is orange in Girls Aloud comeback teaser
GIRLS Aloud have unveiled a tantalising teaser ahead of a big announcement thought to be their comeback. The five-some — Cheryl Cole, Nicola Roberts, Sarah Harding, Nadine Coyle and Kimberley Walsh — are seen in short orange dresses and with their hair in buns.
They strut towards a black and white backdrop in the short clip, all the while keeping their backs to the camera.
A dance track plays over the top. But before the girls can turn around, a plug for a "special announcement" to be made this Friday, October 19, appears.
Fans of the girl group, who shot to fame on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, were thrilled that they were planning to reunite for their tenth anniversary.

vicious.sid: What's the betting they turn off Cheryl's mic!!! I hope so . . .

16.10.12
Tinchy Stryder stands up Cheryl Cole
TINCHY STRYDER wants to add actor alongside musician and businessman on his CV. The rapper, whose new single Help Me is out now, has caught the acting bug following his cameo role in Keith Lemon: The Film.
Biz Extra had a word with Tinchy just after he supported Cheryl Cole on the London leg of her A Million Lights tour.
He later rejected the offer of a night out with her — he explains why later - but he didn’t turn down our invitation to discuss his business empire, his album and his new passion for acting.
Biz: What’s it been like supporting Cheryl Cole? Have you joined her on a tear-up yet?
It’s been fun. I did the London gig — there’s no place like home.
The plan was to go out after we both played in London but I ended up chilling with Dizzee Rascal.
Biz: So you snubbed her, then?
Sort of! We didn’t want to turn up (to join Cheryl at the after-party) and leave shortly afterwards.

vicious.sid: She probably told him she'd sing him a love song. I'd run a mile too!!!

16.10.12
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart pictured together in public for first time since cheating scandal
TWILIGHT’S Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have been pictured together for the first time since rekindling their broken romance. Brit R-Patz, 26, ditched his 22-year-old film co-star after she was caught cheating in July.
But the couple put their troubles behind them to spend Sunday evening with pals in an LA bar. It was revealed they were back together four weeks ago.

vicious.sid: Oooh, it's gonna end in tears!!!

16.10.12
£1,000 pleb row ‘fine’
SMUG Andrew Mitchell was left squirming in the House of Commons yesterday — as it emerged he could face a £1,000 penalty for his “pleb” rant. The Chief Whip was jeered by Labour members as he returned to the green benches for the first time since his outburst at Downing Street police.
The party is calling for Mr Mitchell’s salary to be docked to reflect the court fine he would receive for swearing at cops. Anyone convicted of a public order offence can be fined between 50 and 125 per cent of their weekly income.
As Mr Mitchell earns around £69,000 a year as Chief Whip — on top of his £66,000 MP’s salary — Labour want him to give up £1,000.
MP Simon Danczuk said: “If the PM won’t clean up this mess Parliament should do it for him.” Mr Mitchell sat stony-faced during Home Office questions.

vicious.sid: Like that'll make a difference, he'll just claim it back in his expenses!!!!

16.10.12
My customers steal 30,000 napkins a month and even take the toilet fittings
His restaurants are not just popular for their relaxed surroundings and honest Italian cooking.
It seems many of Jamie Oliver’s customers go there for the souvenirs as well.
The celebrity chef has complained he loses 30,000 customised linen napkins every month to light-fingered diners.
And after a spate of thefts from the restaurant loos, he has even had to weld on the expensive bathroom fittings.
The 37-year-old told Radio Times: ‘I have noticed things in this recession. Like people nicking the linen napkins from our restaurants.
‘We now lose about 30,000 a month. And there’s another thing: every restaurant of mine has the old-fashioned Thomas Crapper toilets because I’ve always thought they look wicked.
‘But they’re really expensive and we’ve had to have the handles and flushers welded on because people were unscrewing them and nicking them.
‘Honestly, some people were coming out for a meal and going home with half a toilet. Bonkers!’

vicious.sid: Really? 30,000 napkins a month? A thousand a day? He must be doing well in the recession with that amount of customers!

16.10.12
Hacking group make public name of man said to be behind tragic teen’s ‘suicide’
SHADY computer hacking group Anonymous have released the name and address of a man who they claim drove a 15-year-old girl to suicide. Tragic Amanda Todd was last week found dead at her home in Vancouver, Canada, and is suspected to have taken her own life.
Just weeks earlier, she had posted a video on YouTube in which she told of her hell being bullied by school classmates.
In it, she revealed that her ordeal began when she met a man in a chatroom aged just 12.
He convinced her to pose topless for him - only to later send the revealing image to her relatives and schoolmates when she refused to perform more explicit acts.
The image led to her being bullied so badly that she drank bleach in a failed suicide attempt, before apparently managing to take her own life.
But online hackers Anonymous - whose previous targets have included government websites and sites hosting child pornography - now claim they have tracked down the man responsible for circulating the picture.
They have shared an image showing the man's Facebook profile, as well as screenshots in which an messageboard account said to belong to him discusses sharing pictures of underage girls online.
The pictures appear to show a link between the picture of Todd and accounts apparently used by the man.
The hacking collective have also shared maps which are said to show the man's house as part of their operation, which they have codenamed "#OpRIP".
A spokesman for the group said: “We generally don’t like to deal with police first-hand but were compelled to put our skills to good use protecting kids.”
Anonymous, whose members all hide their identity, have posted a video in which a masked individual reads a statement, before providing a link to the man's personal details.
The spokesman says: "We have brought this announcement forwards solely for the purpose of releasing Amanda Todd's punisher's identity."
They go on to say that the man "is an abomination to our society, and will be punished."
Facebook groups targeting the man have already sprung up, with one telling him to "sleep with one eye open".

vicious.sid: Excellent!! Fantastic work, Anonymous. At last someone is willing to take the bull by the horns and put the fear of god into these disgusting scumbags who make people's lives a misery. It's payback time! It's time for him to suffer like he made her suffer - an eye for an eye. Maybe it'll make all the other lowlife bullies think twice before they do it - if not, let us know who they are and they'll get a taste of their own medicine. This could be the end of trolling at last.