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Some ideas and views that interest me |
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East is Wild West. |
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The number of registered firearms in the East of England has increased by nearly 30% over the past six years, new police figures reveal. |
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An investigation by BBC Look East found that in 2005/6 more than 300,000 guns were legally owned in the region. |
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Anti-gun campaigners have called for a reduction in gun ownership and new laws to govern registration |
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Registered Guns in East: |
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Bedfordshire- 20,602. |
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Hertfordshire- 30,348. |
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Northamptonshire- 31,083. |
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Cambridgeshire- 40,144. |
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Suffolk- 50,851. |
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Essex- 61,185. |
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Norfolk- 67,526. |
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Hardware Update for Hornbill. |
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METAL MICKEY, a southern ground hornbill, is able to eat again now having had a steel bionic replacement fitted to his broken beak. |
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Named after the 1980's sit-com star, Mickey, from Birdland at Burton-on-the-Water. in the Cotswolds is one of only 12 of his kind in Britain and would have starved without the ingenious intervention. |
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Staff at Birdland replaced the broken section of the bird's lower beak with a four-inch piece made from stainless steel and attached by five small bolts. Epoxy-resin was used to seal the new bill. The 15-year-old is believed to be the first bird in Britain to have a steel jaw. |
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Details from the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, a family owned Warwickshire newspaper since it was first published in 1860. |
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Sterling Regains 19'th Century Crown of Currancies. |
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According to the Bank of International Settlements, Sterling deposits are now more than those held in Japanese Yen, Swiss franks, Australian and Canadian dollars, and the Scandinavian currancies combined and becoming a favoured store of value for the rising powers of Asia and the oil exporting bloc. |
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Britain must be doing something right again!. |