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These were sadly lacking in Hampshire as the County had decided to amalgamate VE and VJ celebrations - as per Government wisdom. It was a different matter in Southampton and yesterday there was a special service (held outside the Civic Centre) in honour of VJ day and to award the Freedom of the City to Burma Star Association and the Normandy Veterans. The service was graced by the presence of

I finally asked Dennis to view the site. He made this response to the thread: I'll take this in the spirit it's intended Chris. I don't do publicity though for Lib Dem opponent websites I'm afraid - that's politics (hence, last post deleted). Your site is amusing though, there seems a string of obsessive characters out there by the sounds of it. I might need to call in the fuzz!! Not safe at night anymore! I presume your colleagues are Liberal Democrats (though thats not an allegation, in case you have a ropey libel case in mind!). ...

The saga about Leanne Wood's memo to Party bosses continues to trundle on with an article in the Western Mail this morning questioning whether the use of casework records to identify potential voters is legal or not:Last month Labour released details of an internal Plaid Cymru report written by South Wales Central AM Leanne Wood in which she questioned the value of constituency case work because it didn't necessarily translate into votes for the party. She proposed that regional AMs should spend less time on casework and only attend functions if that would help Plaid.Plaid denied that Ms Wood's suggestions ...

I've been Consecutive Number Plate Spotting now for 1 year, and have found 260 plates, so a quick bit of maths say another 3 years to go!

Yeseterday’s Observer sudoku took me 2 mins 51 secs to complete - possibly my fastest time for any sudoku. It’s been going for three weeks now - time to make it a little harder, I think. The Independent’s Super Sudoku on Saturday (try saying that without your teeth in) took 110 minutes - pretty good, I [...]

Treo 650 owners like myself will at least sympathise with this: It’s obvious that Palm 5 is the “swan song” for this once mighty and ubiquitous handheld operating system. I confidently predict that there will never be another Palm OS 5 based smartphone from Palm, nor will any manufacturer including Palm build any hardware based [...]

Hazel Blears' idea of a rebranding of ethnic categories shows the dangers of government by press release. Anyone who has any knowledge of the history of Ireland and the battles to stop the Irish being British would know that gestures such as describing all Irish people in Great Britain as Irish British would cause untold stress. Luckily the government have given up on that. Ethnic categories

Call me old-fashioned, but the current craze for iPods and other MP3 players leaves me cold. I could provide a number of rational reasons why I won't buy one (and will do so shortly), but Stephen Fry expressed the emotional case well in an unusually good This much I know column in Sunday's Observer Magazine. Much of what has evolved for man to use - a pen, a piano - is beautiful to touch, to look

Well, it's been a whole weekend of "Liberty Demagogues" and Dennis Paul. Here's the final Sunday night update. Firstly, on Saturday, I browsed his site, and found a post on his forum that accused Lib Dems of flood-posting or "spamming" as he inaccurately called it. When I commented in a response to that post that he could be done for libel unless he could prove that it were Lib Dems that were doing it, he responded with this: The webmaster was of course referring to 'Liberty Demagogues' a term I use to describe people who clog up ...