Tag Archives: Police

Government to ban all glasses in all pubs!

By scrubber | Published: February 6, 2010
Some days, things come across my desk that just make my blood boil. This is one of them… I recently popped into one of our local hostelries with Mrs. Scrubber only to discover that it had replaced all its glasses with awful plastic ones. I can confirm that however good the red wine, it tastes like [...]
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Driver fined for blowing his nose

By scrubber | Published: February 4, 2010
Apologies for the lateness of this one; it’s several days old, but I received an email from a reader in Australia pointing out this article, which although slightly factually incorrect, led me to find several reports on the net, the best of which was here, in the Daily Mail. This must surely be a candidate for [...]
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Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Really?

By scrubber | Published: January 18, 2010
Our gratitude to the Telegraph for this one; something to worry us all… According to the article, the delayed £224 million ContactPoint database, which contains personal details of all 11 million children in England, has suffered at least 3 ’serious’ security breaches, in London, Staffordshire and Surrey, according to details obtained under the Freedom of Information [...]
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Norfolk Police blow £250,000 on website redesign!

By Jackal | Published: January 15, 2010
Amid all the gloom with our country in the middle of an economic crisis, it’s good to know that the Norfolk Constabulary have decided to keep the good times rolling by blowing an eye watering £254,662 on a new website. As you would expect, Anne Campbell, Director of Communications & Public Affairs for the Norfolk Police [...]
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