Home Office must account for 9 killers who escaped in Suffolk

Posted by on Dec 12, 2006 in Uncategorized | 4 comments With fear at fever pitch in Ipswich as numbers of missing and murdered prostitutes increase, people should be aware that nine killers have escaped from two nearby Suffolk jails in the past six years – and three of them are still at large, including one who has been on the run for four years. Could the latest killer be one of them? Richard Spring,...
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My interesting day

Posted by on Dec 11, 2006 in updates | 11 comments I am wearing my Headway Cambridgeshire hat today where I am a trustee. We are interviewing candidates to be the centre’s new manager. Headway is a national organisation and provides rehabilitation for adults with brain injury, just ordinary people whose lives were shattered following an accident or fall – it could so easily happen to any of us at any time. Then later I am looking...
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Third prostitute’s body found, yet they continue to walk the streets

Posted by on Dec 11, 2006 in updates | 10 comments The body of a third prostitute has been found in woods near Ipswich sparking fears that a serial killer is on the loose. Yet amazingly, some of these women are still continuing to work because they need the money. This is complete madness. Simon Aalders, who is coordinator of the Suffolk Drug Action Team and works with prostitutes in Ipswich, said women continued to walk the streets in the town...
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My Christmas book list

Posted by on Dec 10, 2006 in updates | 23 comments I’ve hardly had a chance to think about Christmas, but, as you can see from my new photo gallery at the top of my site, I’m beginning to get into the festive mood. I’ve compiled a list of books for my Christmas wish list, biographies are always a favourite as fact is stranger than fiction and I’m always fascinated by people’s lives, so here goes: Sovereign Ladies:...
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Govt accused of using "big brother" data tactics

Posted by on Dec 9, 2006 in Uncategorized | 3 comments The government has been accused of using “big brother” tactics by paying for data to increase council tax bills. Rightmoves.co.uk has sold information to the government about the 800,000 properties on its online database, including floor plans and sales prices. This info is being used by the Valuation Office Agency to revalue properties for council tax...
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Prostitutes plead for police amnesty after second death

Posted by on Dec 8, 2006 in updates | 28 comments The body of second missing Ipswich prostitute Tania Nicol (left) is believed to have been discovered by police in a pond today. The naked body of her friend Gemma Adams (right) was found last Saturday in a stream The English Collective of Prostitutes believe other prostitutes have also gone missing from the area over recent years. They fear there will be a repeat of the Yorkshire Ripper horror...
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Will Sheikh Mohammed be a great ruler of Liverpool FC?

Posted by on Dec 8, 2006 in updates | 9 comments Reports that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum wants to buy Liverpool FC came as no big surprise to me. I follow the news about his Godolphin horse racing empire in Newmarket and am a keen follower of this sport. I can quite understand why the Crown Prince of Dubai wants to challenge Roman Abramovich, a little bird told me during a recent visit to Newmarket’s horse sales that the...
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Would you report being raped?

Posted by on Dec 7, 2006 in updates | 25 comments So women who are raped while drunk are unlikely to see their attacker convicted, according to this report. A third of people believe it’s the woman’s fault if she gets raped while she was drunk. And, shockingly, fewer than 6 per cent of rape allegations result in a conviction. Juries are reluctant to convict in these cases, giving the benefit of the doubt to the man, believing that a...
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My message to President Putin

Posted by on Dec 7, 2006 in Blog | 34 comments I have been brushing up on my Russian since the sinister death of Alexander Litvinenko, who is being buried at a private ceremony in London today, and have composed a message to President Putin urging him to help bring the killers to justice. What will be repercussions be if the Russians fail to co-operate? Putin needs to prove his hands are clean. I’m hoping our police won’t give up...
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Why aren’t more businesses blogging?

Posted by on Dec 6, 2006 in updates | 16 comments An international survey has discovered that PR pros in the U.S. and U.K. recognise the importance of blogs, but very few are actually blogging, or even monitoring them. The survey was carried out among more than 1,100 public relations executives from agencies and corporations in the U.S. and U.K by Peppercom Strategic Communications and the Daily ‘Dog, an online PR review. The results were...
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Now Xmas tinsel is banned for religious reasons

Posted by on Dec 5, 2006 in Uncategorized | 23 comments Businesses afraid of upsetting other faiths have banned Christmas decorations in the workplace. Two out of three bosses questioned felt they could not take the risk. Does this also mean they will not be sending out Christmas cards to staff and associates? Will bosses also ban staff from sending cards to each other? These bosses are obviously terrified of putting a foot wrong...
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Government to be quizzed over journalist’s phone records

Posted by on Dec 4, 2006 in Uncategorized | 15 comments The country was quite rightly up in arms over the News of the World’s devious phone tapping exploits. And now a local newspaper is equally indignant after discovering that Suffolk’s most senior detective obtained the private mobile phone records of a journalist without his consent in a bid to discover who he had been speaking to. Journalists are fiercely protective of...
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Renewed call to legalise brothels following death of prostitute

Posted by on Dec 4, 2006 in updates | 57 comments A month ago I highlighted this very subject and asked whether we should legalise brothels. That very same message is now being endorsed by a local newspaper following the death of a prostitute from Ipswich, a young woman of 25, and the disappearance of a second prostitute from the town, aged 19. A murder investigation has been launched by Suffolk police following the discovery of the naked body...
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A blog free weekend

Posted by on Dec 2, 2006 in updates | 12 comments I have a serious academic assignment to complete for my CIPR diploma and need to have a blog free weekend. The CIPR has recently published a consultation document on social media guidelines and is inviting comments, anyone interested can check it out here....
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How seriously do you take ethical eating?

Posted by on Dec 1, 2006 in updates | 27 comments Many of us will be tucking into our prawn cocktails over the festive season, but how would you feel if you knew those prawns had travelled 12,000 miles before ending up on your plate? Ethical eating is going to be big business as carbon footprinting takes off, more companies like Young’s could find themselves named and shamed for shipping prawns off to Thailand from their UK base simply to...
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Should UK taxpayers pay towards the Olympics?

Posted by on Dec 1, 2006 in Uncategorized | 18 comments Is it fair that London taxpayers should bear the full brunt of the astonomical costs for the 2012 Olympics, a national event that will benefit other parts of the country too? This was one of the questions posed to a panel at yesterday’s inspirational Conservative Women’s Organisation’s conference. Their feeling was that the whole country should pay towards it. Dame Pauline...
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