The former Labour Rochdale town councillor and later Liberal MP for Rochdale, Sir Cyril Smith, has been accused of persistent child abuse at public authority run children’s homes in the town. The accusations are made by the current MP in Rochdale Simon Danczukin a new bookwhich has been serialised in The Daily Mail.
A very unusual British killing at a school in Leeds. Despite the horror of this particular knife crime administered by a 15 year old child (in the eyes of the law) there is an immediate media panic about a tide of violence in our schools. In fact, as the statistics from the Department for Education show, happily violence inside schools has been in steep decline for some years. My hat tipped to amp33d from the Mirror for rescuing the evidence to show so.
The image above was originally made in 2007 when things were not-so-good.
The popular London landmark St Mary Axe aka the Gherkin is in financial strife. It’s owners lack, apparently, a currency hedge. Read all about it in the FT (£) or The Guardian.
It also featured in this cover image for a magazine about dying industries.
The Monty Python revival shows due this summer might benefit from the efforts of the Conservative party and the Times Newspaper to destroy Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP over his expenses as an MEP.
New inquests into the death of 96 people killed at the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 15th April 1989 have opened in Warrington on Merseyside. This follows the quashing of the verdicts from the original inquests in 2012.
After one quarter of a century and the many horrible revelations about the behaviour of the South Yorkshire Police force, the local MP and HMG the story still has the power to shock. The repeated process is expected to take one year.
The cartoon owes something to the iconography of the advertising hoardings which became makeshift stretchers as people died.
