Vince Green

He got away with murder. Bang to rights he was guilt. Killed his wife and her lover but American justice and televised trials meant he got off. Biggest example of "Trial by TV" ever. He should have died in jail

Some 40 years ago I used to drive through Ashridge forest in Hertfordshire at 11pm on my way home when I was on shift work. In the winter it was not unusual to find ten or more deer just standing on the road and they only got out of your way reluctantly as you tried to drive through them. Looking at you as if to say "I was here first get lost" In the winter the black road absorbed more heat from the winter sun and the deer could sense this. Now down here in Cornwall we get Muntjac deer in our garden. They dig up all the bulbs in winter (not good) and eat the fallen apples in summer which is great for me as i dont have to pick them up. I like to see them, wouldn't want to harm them. My mate says why don't you shoot them but I prefer to watch them. Even if it means watching them dig up all my dafs

Uk arms sales to Israel are not very large. They are not likely to lose much sleep if we stopped

I don't know the answer to this from personal experience but my friend who runs a big shooting syndicate in the West Country has told me they can't sell their shot pheasants anymore because they don't have some sort of meat licence . The implication being its not worth the expense of getting one Perhaps someone with more experience with these matters can elaborate

This Netting over the pond is the only thing that works in my experience

Copper in cable is high purity but demand for copper generally is falling due to plastic replacing copper in plumbing applications World commodity price for copper this morning was 4.02 dollars US per pound. That works out close to your £7 grand a ton. But the thing about lead is how easily it can be turned into shot. People do it in their garage

The cost of the raw materials is miniscule in the overall cost of the end product. The only reason we are being pushed towards steel shot is because the industry that already makes steel ball bearings can produce steel shot in the quantities required by the cartridge industry. There is no industrial need for copper shot so unless someone wants to start a factory from scratch ( highly unlikely in the present economic climate) there is no source for the cartridge industry to get copper shot. Also although we will stop using lead shot I strongly suspect that most of the countries in Europe will simply ignore the ban. Like they do with most other legislation, and continue using lead shot.

I have wondered about that. It was going to be the obvious replacement but then suddenly it all went quiet and all you heard about was steel

Not only Labour's ghost votes they lost a large number of real live Labour voters too who simply dropped off the electoral register to avoid paying the tax. Basically you were paying hundreds of pounds a year for the right to vote. For many the choice was simple. No vote was not that big a deal. If they did it again they would have to find a better way of locking people in. There lies the problem Oh and by the way my brother in law has a house in Cyprus. His council tax is £220 A YEAR ! His bins get emptied every two days, there is street lighting and the roads are not bad. But, and it's a big but, that's all the council does. All the work that is done by Social services over here is done by the church. No rent free council houses etc

Yeah it was a toss up

I got a phone call yesterday saying I had won a competition blah blah blah. Just hang up

As a former Magistrate I believe that if you 'use' that phone by touching it, whether or not it's in a holder, it is an offence. The law is a blanket ban, it offers no exemptions for where it is or what it is being used for. Hands free means literally that hands free. Using it as a sat nav makes no difference its still a mobile phone. But you always have the right to argue the point in court if you get stopped. But I think they are missing a trick using a lorry. We live near a big junior school and the mums on the school runs are the world's worst for using their mobile phones while driving.

Yes anything that obstructs your forward vision. But like so many things it never seems to get enforced.

You are breaking the law if you touch the phone even if its in a holder. Also phones in holders cannot obstruct the windscreen. I think it's true to say the same applies to sat navs and dash cams

A lot of it is done by debt. They don't pay the traffickers they owe them for the rest of their lives. Like pay day loans

Too many employers only too willing to exploit the cheap labour

People who commit one crime are also much more likely to be committing others. Pulling people over for phone and seat belts is a very good starting point for a bit more investigation. These 'fishing trips' often turn up a lot more than just the offence they were originally stopped for. It makes good sense But policing is about numbers these days, 39 convictions in one day looks good on the performance tables.

The trouble is that no party can control the pressures that are causing things like inflation, fuel prices, food prices, immigration etc. These are global issues. Other countries in Europe are facing the same pressures and are equally unable to control them. Politicians across the world are now much more closely scrutinised by the media. For the most part, they are not coming out of it looking good. Virtually all of them are hopelessly incompetent

She didn't say HOW she was going to do it though. Vote for me and everything will be fine

There is no point in trying to prosecute the bulk of shop lifters. They are mostly from the "floating poor' with no permanent address, shared accommodation, cash in hand landlords, sofa surfers etc. They don't turn up in court, don't pay their fines and the courts don't have the time or resources to track them down. If they are asylum seekers they are virtually immune from prosecution anyway because they will already have been allocated an immigration solicitor and the CPS won't want to waste money pursuing a case this small against a solicitor they know will raise all sorts of expensive delaying tactics.

Professional pest controllers trap foxes on their clients ground and drive them a few miles up the road and release them. Reason being A) they have no legal way of killing them. B) they have no legal way (cost effective way);of disposing of the dead fox. Easiest way is just drive and dump

The poll tax addressed the rising tactic by Labour of registering non existent 'ghost' voters onto the electoral register and then using their registration to generate postal votes. It was rife, it still happens today. The voting fraud in Tower Hamlets in 2014 identified thousands of fake names on the electoral register. Labour couldn't afford to lose so many votes so the protests and riots resulted

It's already happened at Local Government level in many parts of the country

M&S have dramatically reduced their range of sizes in all their men's wear. They have cut out completely all the larger sizes keeping only to the middle of the size range which presumably sells the quickest. At one time, not that long ago, they did all the sizes up to very large but I suppose it makes sense from their point of view.

Chatleys do larger size suits of a good quality