Stratford Johns's Charlie Barlow was the most famous detective on British television from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, appearing successively in Z-Cars; Softly, Softly; Softly; Softly: Task Force; and Barlow at Large. His most interesting spin-off, however, was Jack the Ripper, in which Johns and his perennial sidekick, Frank Windsor's John Watt, investigated, in character, the notorious East End murders of 1888. The series ran to six parts and included reconstructions of the inquests of the murder victims so the viewer could hear the contemporary evidence being given as well as Barlow and Watts's assessment of it. What ...
Liberal Democrat Newswire #174 looks at how the Prime Minister is continuing to blunder and the increasingly positive prospects for the Lib Dems.
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Commons intelligence committee questions Danny Alexander's role with the Asian Infrastructure Invest...
Embed from Getty ImagesFrom this morning's Guardian: David Cameron's appointment as vice-chair of the £1bn China-UK investment fund and Sir Danny Alexander's appointment as vice-president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank [AIIB] were in part engineered by the Chinese state, parliament's intelligence and security committee found. Their appointment was to lend credibility to Chinese investment as well as the broader Chinese brand, according to confidential evidence given to the intelligence watchdog. The report goes on to quote the evidence to the committee of Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong: "I think they [China] probably think we are not ...
The Scottish Government is holding a workshop in Dundee on Wednesday 19th July to allow residents share views responding to the climate emergency. It will cover things like how we travel to how we make our homes more energy efficient. If you are interested in taking part, please scan the QR code on the poster or go to www.tickettailor.com/events/scottishgovernment All participants will receive a £50 voucher as a gift of thanks for attending and participating in the session.
