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I've been adding some links to more sites today .... a lot of political sites, but also to the Nome Nugget (my favourite online local newspaper - worth a look) and to a couple of sites dealing with space art and extrasolar planets. The illustrations here are from Nova Celestia. However the artwork - and the background information - at Extrasolar.net is also very good.

The East London Advertiser got it about right about last week's Council meeting, apart from that bit about Mayor Doros "Little Boy" Ullah. Doris could hardly be described as little, but to give him his due he has shed something of his girth since wearing a heavy chain round his neck. Still his eyes popped out of their sockets when I told him of the Mayor Weighing Ceremony that my mum underwent when she was Mayor of High Wycombe in 1998. I had invited new Tower Hamlets resident Francine Fernandes to the Council Meeting, warning her ...

The, er, forthright British Nationalists in Wales Watch thinks it knows who was behind the manhandling and expulsion from the hall of 103-year-old Walter Wolfgang at the Labour Conference: We've received reports, that David Taylor - Labour AM Leighton Andrews' researcher - was the Labour party official who instructed the stewards to remove 88 year old Walter Wolfgang from the British Nationalist Labour Party conference. Apparently Taylor was watching the speech live on Sky News outside the conference hall, and shouted in to his radio: "You can hear the f***ing heckling on Sky News. Shut them up, or take ...

This morning, after a minor false start, I started by collecting rubbish on Old Yardley Park with various local residents who are taking part in an annual clear-up. To me the big issue really is how we persuade people that parks are not rubbish bins. We are spending a lot of effort on clearing them up, but really we need people not to drop rubbish in the first instance. I turned up at my

Popped along to the Gourmet International Food Market down by the bullring markets at lunchtime. Bit of a cross between a farmers market & the bavarian xmas market with ostrich burgers on tap.I thought that much of the freshly cooked food was a little over priced (£4 for a small bowl of paella).But jumped at the chance to buy some baclava (mediterranean honey/filo pastry and nut sweet).Adam had a chance to bulk up on his carbs prior to Ramadam starting on Monday.

Cadbury's are just in the process of testing their evacuation alarm. Aparently it can be heard 5 miles away. I can say with certainty it can be heard 200m away...Quite why it has to be quite that loud is another matter. I didn't think making creme eggs was that dangerous!

I dropped theguardian a line yesterday and today I’m on the obituaries page! (The odd quotation marks in the first paragraph aren’t mine although the slightly garbled first sentence of the second paragraph is.) Tags: don+adams, inspector+gadget, obituaries, guardian © Will on No geek is an [...]

There was an interesting example in today's Western Mail of a homegrown politician getting caught up in her own momentum in the process of writing a letter and making nonsense claims that do not stand up to scrutiny.The antipathy between Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood and most Labour AMs is, of course, well known. It is no surprise therefore to find them slagging each other off in the letters pages of Wales' newspapers. In this morning's offering Leanne hits out at a claim, made by a Labour AM, 'that no one ever claimed that Communities First was the answer to poverty'. ...

I refer to a statement of such offensiveness and wrong-headedness that the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the person making it is a danger to society and should be removed from public life indefinitely for his and our safety. Rather worryingly the author of the remarks in question is a senior Republican, who has served at the highest levels of the US Government, as education secretary under Ronald Reagan and drugs czar under the first George Bush. William Bennett is quoted as saying that "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your ...

The Guardian this morning reports that the biggest union for headteachers is holding a conference sponsored by fast-food giants McDonald's, just days after the education secretary, Ruth Kelly, banned burgers, fizzy drinks and junk food from school canteens. At least NAHT general secretary, Mick Brooks, has the grace to admit that there has been some concern among his members about the sponsorship deal but then slips into spin mode in an attempt to justify the indefensible. "We have been considering our policy in relation to this, especially in the light of the focus on healthy school meals," said Mr ...

AS all good bloggers know, undoubtably the lasting memory of the Labour Party Conference was the manhandling and removal of the 82 year old heckler Walter Wolfgang, a Jewish refugee from nazi Germany. Not only that , but anti-terrorism laws were then invoked by the police to deal with him. It seemed to most people that this was an absurd over-reaction by the Labour Party and the Police and a