How We See The World

A Devon boy expelled from school for selling cannabis is to receive £1,500 in compensation from a council. The Local Government Ombudsman ruled that Torbay Council was guilty of maladministration in its slowness to find a new school for the Year-10 boy. He said the money was not a reward but that failure to find a school and teach him at home properly caused injustice. The authority admitted it was unable to find alternative provision as quickly as it should have done. Rest of story at BBC

Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson has criticised the US broadcast regulator for "intimidating" a US TV network into censoring his new series. The Bedford Diaries, on the WB network, was due to air with girls kissing and a female character opening her jeans. But Mr Levinson, who is producing the show, said some scenes had been cut for fear of being fined by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Source: BBC Entertainment

ok so not every nation likes this ad, but i think it is great for our tourism industry. give it a chance people!!! "So Where the Bloody Hell Are You? Challenging tourists to make the decision to come to Australia now is the centrepiece of the new $180 million international tourism ad campaign - launched today by the Tourism Minister Fran Bailey. So Where the Bloody Hell Are You? is our unique and familiar invite to our overseas friends to visit Australia immediately. “So Where the Bloody Hell Are You? is a campaign designed to make tourists sit up and take notice, and book their trip right away. It is a distinctively Australian invite that says come to our pl…

I think it will be a thread for few people...... Anyway: DALLAS MAVERICKS RULES!

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A reminder... Sick men rule us. Video about the IRAQ so called "Weapons of Mass Destruction" http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/bushjoke.wmv (might be offended) But this actually happened, he amazingly made such jokes. US President George W Bush making a joke about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Remember that we were told here in the UK that we only had a 45 min warning of an impending missile attack from Iraq...and the US people told that Saddam could strike at America with his weapons. Remember Colin Powel going through aerial photo's of the Iraqi bases and missile launch facilities? This is what we were told was the overiding …

Phewww......what a game! :nice: Edge of your seat stuff.....from despair to triumph! :thinking: :lol:

Way to go City!

I think the President's impromtu press conference back fired on him. I think his advisors advised him to talk to the Nation amidst his lowest approval rate ever... to try and reassure the country.. but instead, he's divided the country even further. Basically wiping his hands clean of all responsibility in returning our troops home. The man is an asshole. March 22, 2006 Bush Concedes Iraq War Erodes Political Status By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON, March 21 — President Bush said Tuesday that the war in Iraq was eroding his political capital, his starkest admission yet about the costs of the conflict to his presidency, and suggested that American forces would re…

MSNBC.com N.Y. police ID ‘prime suspect’ in student death 41-year-old bouncer's blood found on ties used on victim, authorities say NBC News and news services Updated: 3:26 p.m. ET March 12, 2006 NEW YORK - Darryl Littlejohn, the person of interest in the murder of New York graduate student Imette St. Guillen, “is the prime suspect” in her murder, New York police commmissioner Raymond Kelly said at a Sunday afternoon press conference. Kelly said that “Littlejohn's blood was found on plastic ties that were used to bind Imette's hands behind her back,” and that on that basis, authorities will seek an indictment next week. Littlejohn, a convicted felo…

anyone else a fan??? I loved and continue to love this show... I recently got the entire 1st season on dvd... and its mega!! I love Moulder!!

A question to all the technology geniuses here...I've just installed Firefox on my laptop following a lot of people telling me it's better than Explorer...but when I try to find the temporary internet files in their proper folder I can't find any, is this normal, and if it's normal where does it save all the files of the internet pages I visit? :thinking:

I was just wondering what's your ISP's and maybe some extra info about them. Info like: limit of downloads/uploads, internet speed, and that kind of stuff. :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/b/birmingham_city/live_text/default.stm :lol:

Story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4465456.stm

A nuisance beggar who licked CCTV cameras to obscure their view has landed an anti-social behaviour order. Keith Farran would pester drivers for money to wash their cars and if they refused he would dance around gesticulating and licking cameras. Appearing before Teesside magistrates, Farran, 27, of Wellington Street, Middlesbrough, was banned from Stockton town centre for six months. The case was brought by Stockton and Middlesbrough councils. The court heard how Farran was caught licking cameras in the Wellington Square shopping centre in Stockton. He wanted to smear the glass so police could not see him harassing motorists. Rest of the story at BBCTee…

Postman Pat's black and white cat Jess is to get his own TV spin-off. In contrast to the original show's stop-motion animation, however, Guess with Jess will be made using hi-tech computer-generated imagery. Guess with Jess will be shown on BBC One, BBC Two and CBeebies from 2008. Aimed at pre-school children, it will have its own range of toys. [BBC Entertainment]

An Afghan man is being tried in a court in the capital, Kabul, for converting from Islam to Christianity. Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could face the death sentence under Sharia law unless he recants. He converted 16 years ago as an aid worker helping refugees in Pakistan. His estranged family denounced him in a custody dispute over his two children. [BBC South Asia]

A travel company has apologised to a school after pupils and teachers found they were given fake dollars for a trip to the United States. The party of six teachers and 40 pupils from Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Blackburn took $5,000 (£2862) for the skiing holiday in the resort of Maine. But police were called when the group found the cash they'd been given by the company Going Places was forged. BBCLancashire

Reviewed by Amanda Craig VAMPIRES ARE STALKING the charts after a rest in their tombs. With Stephanie Meyer’s debut novel, Twilight, poised for bestsellerdom with its chaste yet intensely erotic description of a teenager’s love-affair with a vampire, Darren Shan’s 12-volume Saga of Darren Shan — of which the latest volume is Sons of Destiny — racing to the big screen and Demons of the Ocean, part of Justin Somper’s Vampirates series one of the top-selling titles of 2005, vampires are suddenly the next big thing. Since Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897, vampires have held the popular imagination. The vampire never dies, becoming increasingly complex and intriguing…

REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER SILVESTER THE SUNDANCE KIDS: How the Mavericks Took Back Hollywood by James Mottram James Mottram’s book could hardly be timelier. Though he delivered his manuscript long before Crash and Brokeback Mountain reaped the main Oscars earlier this month, both represent further victories for Hollywood’s new generation of art-house directors: the loosely defined group he calls the Sundance Kids. And while Brokeback’s director, Ang Lee, has operated within the studio system, and Crash’s writer-director, Paul Haggis, has come from television, their films’ subject matter and marketing, building on the critical success of last year’s Sideways, owe mor…

Author DBC Pierre has spoken about his efforts to avoid what has become known as "second novel syndrome" as he wrote the follow-up to his debut, the Booker Prize-winning Vernon God Little. Ludmilla's Broken English, which was released earlier this month to mixed reviews, is set in England and a fictional state in the Caucuses, and centres on a pair of formerly conjoined twins who travel to meet a young woman they have seen on the internet. Pierre told BBC World Service's The Word programme that while he acknowledged there were high expectations of the book, he had not felt too much pressure. Read more at the BBC

JEFFREY Archer is back in the spotlight once more. The 65-year-old's first book since his prison experience, False Impression, is selling quickly and he is relishing being the focus of media attention. He said: "The press have been wonderful - and you can't have heard me say that very often. Very civilised and very decent - with the one exception." He declines to name that one exception and concentrates instead on sales of his latest book. He said: "It is selling very fast. Third reprint in four days, 120,000 hardbacks in England in four days. Never had that before." Rest of the story: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2006/03/21/b8bc26…

Hi! I've just bought a new DVD-burner so I could watch all the TV-series I have on my computer at my standalone DVD player. But how do I burn .avi and .mpg files onto a watchable DVD? I've searched on the internet for a week now, without getting any solution to my problem! Can anyone help me here?

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