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Samantha Lwthwaite - Did Our Security Services Fail?

April 2012 // Conservative MP Patrick Mercer has written to Home Secretary Theresa May to ask for a full explanation of why Samantha Lewthwaite has been able to disappear without the knowledge of...

anotheoldgit

Ban On Smoking In Prisons

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2426471/Smoking-ban-introduced-British-prisons-sparking-fears-inmates-riot-longer-light-up.html Is it better to risk riots or pay out huge amounts of...

piggynose

A Calculation For You

7+7/7+7 x 7 - 7 / is the division sign is the answer A : 00, B : 08, C : 50, D : 56...

Kromovaracun

Nigel Farage Was A "fascist" Teenager.... Apparently...

http://www.channel4.com/news/nigel-farage-ukip-letter-school-concerns-racism-fascism So Channel 4 News (which is usually relatively sensible compared to the other networks) has pounced on this letter...

modeller

Abuse Of Nhs By Foreigners.

Has UKIP got an answer ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24149457...

ToraToraTora

The Monty Hall Dilemma........goats And Caddys!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24045598 I have come across this before and like most initially I always thought that switching or not made no difference but once the penny dropped I saw it. I have...

anotheoldgit

These Cases Get Even More Horrific.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424335/Mummified-corpse-boy-4-mother-s-bedroom-TWO-YEARS-starved-death.html It is reported that this person is to be charged with manslaughter, why is this not...

emmie

Drunk Tanks For

revellers, good idea perhaps ? http://news.sky.com/story/1143123/police-back-private-drunk-tanks-for-revellers...

New Judge

What Crisis? (Part Two)

Earlier in the year I queried why a local authority took it upon itself to feed the children in its area free of charge: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1205273.html But now it seems that...

society

Attention Believers In God!

Why do you believe in God?...

Eve

Washington Shootings

http://news.sky.com/story/1142428/washington-navy-yard-shooting-several-dead Awful and still ongoing. These shootings just seem to becoming more and more common, thought one shooter dead and possibly...

mikey4444

A Sensible Ruling From The Judge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24112067 Its seems that the Judge has reached a sensible ruling in this case. She can be shielded from the public when giving evidence, but must be seen, veil-less...

Ric.ror

Niqab Lady Anonymity

Has a reason been given why this lady has not been named yet and will she be named after the trial Also would she have had 'mug' shots taken? If so with or without the niqab on...

ToraToraTora

Is It Time Life Meant Life?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/429842/Government-need-to-explain-why-FIVE-lifers-were-free-to-kill-again-demands-Tory-MP...

youngmafbog

Is This Actually Worth The Bother ?

http://news.sky.com/story/1142192/benefit-cheats-face-up-to-10-years-in-jail All sounds good, benefit fraud is no different to any other fraud and costs all of us who pay taxes a lot of money. But how...

anneasquith

We Wont Be Getting A Nanny For George ?

7 weeks old, oh yes you will :)

hawksley

Osborne

Is it true , Osborne is in charge of the slowest financial recovery for one hundred years. ??? I know a certain answer bank member, is going to reply saying it is the fault of the previous government,...

ck1

House Prices

How can growth be capped at 5% increase?

kloofnek

Road Tax When Buying A New Car.

We have had to change our car...failed MOT and not worth the expense of repair. So we are picking up a car on Sat,but our present car cannot be used after Friday,when MOT runs out. Now what happens...

B00

Now That's Just Mean!

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/12/blobfish-world-ugliest-animal Poor ol' Barry :-(...

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