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Bless that Broon(mentions Westlife)
Topic Started: Jun 12 2007, 11:03 AM (84 Views)
JoanneVIP
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THE BOSS
Bless that Broon, though. Maggie, whenever she was faced with the undignified prospect of getting sand between her toes, dressed up like Lawrence of Arabia. Sir J Major, we recall, would don a sensible khaki sweater. As for St Tony, he was, y'know, all chinos, open-neck shirts and (very probably) no socks. But our urbane and affable future prime minister flew into Iraq yesterday in exactly the same smart and eye-catching ensemble he always wears, namely a suit (dark) and a tie (also dark, though Sarah, we hear, did recently buy him a pink one). No concessions, that's the secret. Not even to 45C in the desert. Fine work.

And PC Plod lives! According to the Shields Gazette ("the voice of South Tyneside"), unknown thieves last weekend broke into the locked compound of an engineering firm on Jarrow's Bede industrial estate and made off with 210 steel bars, each weighing a not insubstantial 200kg. "Whoever did this," a spokesman for South Tyneside police told the paper, "will have required transport." Brilliant

Steven Norris, the charismatic former transport minister, has given a "clear signal" that he will stand as the Tory candidate in London's mayoral election, the Telegraph reports. Oddly, only a few weeks ago Steve was confiding to the many devoted readers of his column in Property Week that the "unfortunate reality for whoever the Tories choose is that Ken Livingstone will know they are not the candidate the party leader actually wanted". Quite.

Apparently, however, Bedfordshire police have a spokesman called Des Lawless, and SPI Consultants a head of conflict resolution called Steve Sweetlove. Also, the managing director of Waitrose is Mark Price, and the chief exec of the Carbon Trust is, rather alarmingly, Tom Delay. Although why we should give a monkey's about any of this is, as ever, beyond us.

Alan Johnson, education secretary, is campaigning to be deputy leader of the Labour party under the slogan The People's Choice. The evil Mr Saxon, whose reign of terror as Doctor Who's next enemy draws ever nearer, became PM having fought his campaign under exactly the same banner . Scary.

Celebrity goss, now, and while it's certainly sad to see poor Paris Hilton back in jail, maybe it was a tad optimistic to think the dear girl would remember to wear a security device on her ankle when she has some difficulty remembering her underwear. And in unrelated but equally significant news, Lady Victoria Beckham has admitted to the Mirror that she found singing on the new Spice Girls reunion tracks "truly terrifying". Not half as terrifying as the rest of us are likely to find listening to the results, dear. Arf.

George Bush is a hero in Albania. So, apparently, is Norman Wisdom. Something tells us there's probably a joke in there somewhere.

Hats off, though, to local entrepreneurs Andrew Tinkler and Brian Scowcroft, whose unstinting efforts for the deserving kids of Carlisle include pledging half the £2m private sponsorship needed for an academy school. In a novel twist, the very readable Cumberland News reports the pair have also booked "pop superstars Westlife, X-Factor winner Shayne Ward and former Sugababe Mutya Buena" for a fundraising concert, allowing, we imagine, the same kids to come up with the remaining £1m themselves by buying tickets. Very neat.

Hats off, also, to English Heritage, which - despite expressing its concern at the loss of lottery funds to pay for the Olympics - spent nearly £40,000 looking for a new chairman, including £15,000 for the recruitment company that introduced it to Lord Bruce Lockhart. Good to see our nation's heritage is in such safe hands.

Finally, seven firemen, a fire engine and a turntable truck were mobilised in Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, last week in an attempt to rescue a squirrel stuck up a telegraph pole. This column asks: why

The Guardian (London) Gitta @ http://www.nishakimabry.de.vu/
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Sara
Thanks for posting Jo
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Mary
thanks for posting :)
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Jacqueline
Dankje Jo !
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