However, most parents of “child sex offenders” feel too intimidated to question the criminal label assigned to their children.Like many of our contemporary obsessions, this one first emerged in the US. In the late Eighties, many experts began to inflate the definition of sexual abuse and turned their attention to child sex crime. Widespread anxiety [...]
I agree that displacing patients from NHS lists to allow private work to be done is iniquitous, but if the two can be kept separate, NHS patients, private patients and health providers can all benefit
LAWRENCE JOHN ROBERTS
Winterton, Lincolnshire. KATHY MARKS’s report of the Australian referendum plumbs Murdochian depths of bias. We’re told that [...]
The old tired hackneyed leaders, epitomised by Paisley, refuse to accept that the traumatic path the Republicans have traversed since ceasefire is at all important.Yet David Trimble knows that when such political risk is taken it must be met by a reciprocal approach. He wants to do exactly that, by affording full legitimacy to Sinn [...]
“It does not seem right that these boys have got off scot-free, without even being identified, while this teacher, innocent of all charges, has had her name dragged through the mud,” he said last week. Contrast that with the experience of Rowena Jones, a student at Exeter University who appeared in court last month after [...]
The lightweight Nicola Fairbrother is still convinced she can improve on the Olympic silver she gained in 1992, and will have to face the youthful challenge of Jenny Brien, from Camberley, while London’s Winston Graham puts in his middleweight bid for recognition against the more experienced Ryan Birch, from Manchester.And what of wayward Danny Kingston? [...]
Severn Trent intends to build turnover from the two divisions to just over pounds 1bn by 2005, by when it estimates that non-regulated businesses will account for just over half its revenues, a quarter of operating profits and 60 per cent of total staffing.The company plans an aggressive campaign to win industrial and business customers [...]
The Hawks’ coach is Mark Aston, the former Sheffield Eagles captain, who is trying to set up a new professional club in the city following the Eagles’ merger with Huddersfield.The St Helens forward, Vila Matautia, became the sixth player from the Super League Grand Final winners to undergo close-season surgery. At amateur level, at least, [...]
The refugees were attacked even though a woman carrying a white flag was walking in front of the convoy. The killings, near the village of Goity, eight miles from the Chechen capital, Grozny, took place as the fighting increased. It was reported that 250 Russian soldiers had been killed in an attack by Chechen fighters.
Aisa [...]
Now when they leave after three months and a day, you have to start paying them holiday,” Mr Fuller said.His comments came as Fuller unveiled an 8.2 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to pounds 7.1m in the half year to 25 September, in line with analysts’ estimates. Turnover rose by 16 per cent to [...]
The striker’s clu,b Internazionale, had previously been told that Ronaldo would need a maximum of three months to recover, but the club’s chairman, Massimo Moratti, has now said he would not be rushed back into action.
“As soon as I speak to him I will tell him not to hurry things and just to concentrate on [...]
The vibe is laid-back; it’s like a mini Glastonbury Festival, and a real find for backpackers in Central America.”Where: Ferry Jetty, San Pedro, Guatemala (contact Deano at Sparrow101 hotmail ).How much: free.10 De Melkweg, AmsterdamDe Melkweg (“Milky Way”) has been messing with the mainstream since opening on an Amsterdam dairy site way back in 1970. [...]
To avoid the feeling that this kind of history is one damn thing after another, he interrupts his mellifluous flow with chapters on individuals, though significantly more patrons than artists: William of Wykeham, Cardinal Wolsey, the Earl of Arundel, Horace Walpole, Prince Albert (who in an inappropriate slip into demotic he calls a “dynastic stud”).Strong’s [...]
Perhaps it’s something in the water, but Bristolians seem to have something of a fixation with objects flying over their heads. The Ashton Court estate in Bristol is the venue for an annual ballooning regatta and this weekend the same venue hosts a weekend of kite flying. The festival begins with a demonstration by the [...]
Here are the Piranesi drawings that Soane displays so ingeniously on pull-out rods in his picture gallery at home, and a huge canvas painted by his fishing partner, JW Turner, that Soane commissioned for his house but sent back as he didn’t like it, now on loan from the Tate. Like any capricious impresario of [...]
Trench warfare is like a long series of drawn five-day Test matches laid end to end. “Writing a history of the Great War was very like writing a history of cricket. During a lull in play I asked him if, as a historian, he had considered writing a history of cricket.”In a sense, I already [...]
But most of all they will be there to cheer on the peace process. Two years ago they went on a swing through England that included stop-offs at Lord’s and Hambledon as well as an appointment for tea with Prince Edward at Buckingham Palace.And now they are preparing for a follow-up tour, a 19-day trip [...]
Nowadays, junkies’ syringes lie underfoot and its columns are daubed with graffiti.Although sanatoriums were found across the country, the Black Sea was considered a prize destination, reserved for party bigwigs. Today, the Odessa Sanatorium has passed into the hands of the Ukrainian Secret ServiceFrom neo-classical to concrete, Black Sea sanatoriumsNeo-classical architecture found favour with the [...]
Mark sent me the music from America which I listened to and then I sent him the design, which was made into a backdrop, and then he choreographed using the music and the backdrop. The first time I ever saw a theatre design I’d done, for Covent Garden, I just couldn’t believe the scale, a [...]
“I feel at home working here.”Philip Livingstone50s, game show producerResident for three yearsPhilip’s daughter is happy to visit his one-bed flat overlooking the car park in the rear courtyard. I bought the chandelier in France – isn’t it just right? But my girlfriend refuses to come here.”Alan Bayne50s, architectWorked in this studio for two yearsAlan [...]
It’s not the glittery thing of having a concept.” About her reportage, which she admits is not often easy on the eye, she once said: “I don’t take pictures to put in a box. It was part of a story commissioned by Life magazine but, in the end, it never ran. “I went in,” she [...]