Monday, 31 December 2007
Saturday, 29 December 2007
stolen baby Jesus statue, tracked by GPS
Police not only recovered the Christ Child figure, they arrested a suspect, The Miami Herald reported Friday.
Village leaders in West Palm Beach who erected the nativity scene at the Wellington Community Center decided to equip the figures with GPS after learning of the theft of a Baby Jesus from a creche in Bal Harbour.
Police found the figure at the home of a man who said that a woman friend had dropped it off. Danielle Santino, 18, of Lake Worth, Fla., allegedly admitted the theft to police. She has been charged with theft of an item valued at $300 to $5,000.
Baby Jesus was placed back in the manger at the community center.
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Dolly the sheep creator to receive a knighthood
 Professor Ian Wilmut is the best known of the new knights |
Professor Ian Wilmut is to receive a knighthood for his pioneering work at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh - including cloning the first mammal.
Friday, 28 December 2007
Another McCann tragedy
Now ....Wilma McCann's eldest daughter takes her own life. There has been very little mainstream media coverage of this sad event. However, The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe HAS had plenty of local TV coverage!
source: Guardian Unlimited
Ripper victim's daughter takes own life
Allegra Stratton and agenciesThursday December 27, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The eldest daughter of the Yorkshire Ripper's first murder victim killed herself in the week before Christmas, West Yorkshire police said today.
Police found Sonia Newlands dead in her Leeds home on December 19. It is believed she hanged herself. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
Newlands had been battling alcohol addiction in a rehabilitation centre before her death.
Her mother, Wilma McCann, was the first of Peter Sutcliffe's 13 victims. The 28-year-old was attacked with a hammer and stabbed several times on playing fields behind the Leeds council estate where she lived in October 1975.
Newlands, who used her mother's maiden name, was the oldest of McCann's four children. When their mother didn't return home that night, she and her brother Richard, then seven and five, went to wait at the bus stop McCann normally used.In 2005, Newlands told a BBC documentary about her continuing grief. "I think most people remember the number 13 - for the number of women he killed. But what about the children - there's 25 of them and no one remembers them."
Her brother Richard served time in prison on drugs charges before publishing two best-selling books - Just A Boy and The Boy Grows Up - about his troubled childhood.
Newlands' funeral is expected to take place early next month.
Sutcliffe murdered 12 more women after McCann between 1976 and 1980 and has been held in Broadmoor hospital for nearly 26 years.
Ten years ago he lost his eye when a fellow inmate attacked him, something for which he received nearly £200,000 compensation. Last week another inmate attempted to gouge out his other eye by plunging a knife into his face.
Wednesday, 26 December 2007
only two people support £2.1M Solar Pyramid
PYRAMID PROTESTERS BAG A PAIR
09:30 - 26 December 2007
Only two people have signed an online petition supporting a £2.1m solar pyramid in Derbyshire.
It was announced in November that, after seven years, plans for the 45-metre-high landmark, due to be built off the M1, in Staveley, had been scrapped.
Its designers said that they had decided to call time on the plans after delays caused by red tape.
Work on the pyramid was due to begin in spring next year at the site in Poolsbrook Country Park.
Planning permission had been granted by Chesterfield Borough Council and it was hoped that the pyramid would become a major tourist attraction.
After the decision to scrap the plans, a petition was launched online but only two people have signed it. To join the protest, visit www.petitions.pm.gov.uk/pyramid .
Monday, 17 December 2007
The Androgyne
Hello folks,
This isn't exactly a new piece of art. However, I do believe that it is worthy of some further study.
It can be found, almost completely tucked away from public view. In a tiny secluded public square, on the outside of the Merrion Centre, Leeds,West Yorkshire UK. This art piece appears to be completely solid, but believe it or not, it is made only from fiberglass. (by Glenn Hellman - back in 1965)
Strangely enough, even since the UK smoking Ban..no one seems to willingly stand anywhere close to it, either to eat a quick lunchtime snack, sit down for a rest or even on a night, for an emergency outdoor ciggy from the nextdoor nightclub.
What do you make of it?
Egyptian, reptilian, your thoughts?
