Letter to the Indy 24.0108

Sir, your editorial (22nd Jan.08) rightly blasts the patio heater for gobbling energy, yet exonerates the 4x4, which it describes as 'at least fulfilling a genuine purpose'...which is 'traversing road-less fields and hills'.
What reason could possibly be less genuine than taking any car, let alone the gas-guzzling 4x4 over roadless fields and hills.
They're bad enough on roads!
Yours,
L. Stothard.

Met. Office sale 25.02.10.

The Labour Government is to sell off the Met. Office, as 'agreed' in Turkey and as 'accepted' by the World Meteorological Office. Not so much selling the family silver as selling vital organs.
The whole of world instrumental temperature recording, dating back to 1500 will be 're-analysed' to 'remove doubts about global warming'... We know why.To try and erase the facts and figures so greedy people can carry on killing of the planet. Exactly whose doubt will be removed and with what catastrophic effects for the human race, for Planet Earth?
By the way, this will take three years... that's three years we haven't got.

Climate warming warners
sold off. New panel will see
off solar panels.

Smashin' Tendulkar.

Sachin Tendulkar (arguably the most successful cricketer of all time) scored a double century for Pakistan against South Africa in the first One Day International series, taking his overall tally to unassailable heights with a series of Fours and Sixes all around the ground.

Cricket's golden guy
Smashin' Two-Ton-dulkar hits
top of the ODI.

A bridge too far. 20.12.09.

Mabey and Johnson, a bridge-building company (owned by one of Britain's richest families) paid bribes to unnamed officials in Ghana, Iraq and Jamaica to win the contracts to build the bridges, eight of which had to be repaired/rebuilt, the Guardian reports.

Mabey those bridging
loans were extorted, causing
eight bridges too far.

Match of the Day 2

Match of the Day 2.

Their little legs
are pumping
for dear life
or six million quid.

Divorce settlements 10.09.

17.10.09.News source: The Times.

The latest interest declared by hedge funding groups is investment in divorce settlements. Funding commercial and individual litigation in exchange for a stake in the final payout is the latest trend in an industry that is 'battling to recover the above-average returns it once offered to investors for hefty fees'.

Till do us part. Death
doesn't get a look-in when
divorces are Courted.