By Quentin Letts Last updated at 9:54 PM on 30th January 2012 Another day, another two outsiders’ reputations fed through the shredder. Gosh, it’s gory here at the carnivore Commons. The first of yesterday’s victims – sorry, witnesses – was Hector Sants, a banker who since the middle of 2007 has been chief executive of […]
Archive for January, 2012
It was phone book down the back of the trousers time!
Sisters aged 3 and 5 deserted in Brooklyn by mother with just a few extra diapers
Mother allegedly heard shouting at kids: “I’ll punch you in the f***ing face’ Also heard shouting ‘I’m gonna get you out of here’ hours before they were abandoned Charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a minor By Rachel Quigley Last updated at 10:43 PM on 30th January 2012 A mother has been […]
Show-off quad bike rider killed his passenger girlfriend while ‘trying to impress her’ after taking drugs
Jailed for six years after riding whilst under the influence of drugs By David Gerges Last updated at 10:49 PM on 30th January 2012 A quad bike enthusiast who killed his girlfriend while trying to ‘impress’ her during a ride has been jailed for six years. James Perkins had been showing off a series of […]
And the rest, as they say, is infuriating
By Craig Brown Last updated at 11:50 PM on 30th January 2012 ‘And the rest, as they say…’: Peter Bowles and Penelope Kieth in sitcom To The Manor Born There is no avoiding it. It is a phrase you hear spoken every hour of every day: ‘. . . and the rest, as they say, is history.’ Every […]
Premier Inn survey: Money worries keep a third of us awake at night
By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:29 AM on 31st January 2012 Restless: More than a third of us are being kept awake at night by financial worries, according to a new poll Money worries are keeping more than a third of us awake at night, according to a poll. Financial woes are more […]
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: It¿s up to shareholders to rein in the bankers
By Daily Mail Comment Last updated at 12:39 AM on 31st January 2012 Example: RBS Chief Executive Stephen Hester was right to hand back his million-pound bonus The Mail warmly congratulates Stephen Hester on giving up his £1million bonus. True, he had to be humiliated into doing the right thing. But how many of us […]
Crowded House Britain: Third of us don’t have enough space but can’t afford to move
By Becky Barrow Last updated at 12:47 AM on 31st January 2012 If homework is strewn across the kitchen table and toys are piling up around the sofa, you probably wish there was a bit more space. You are not alone. Nearly a third of parents say they feel squeezed into their homes but cannot […]
Lauren Platts bought fake vodka that made her lose her eyesight
By Chris Brooke Last updated at 3:41 AM on 31st January 2012 Devastating effects: Lauren Platts was left vomiting and suffering from damaged vision after drinking the cheap ‘vodka’ When Lauren Platts bought a cheap bottle of vodka from an off-licence, the shopkeeper warned her: ‘This stuff will make you blind.’ She dismissed it as […]
Parents who neglected basic duties are accused of causing London riots
By Laura Clark Last updated at 7:29 AM on 31st January 2012 Parents who neglect basic duties such as preparing meals and enforcing bedtimes are breeding a feckless ‘underclass’ who cause mayhem on the nation’s streets, it was claimed yesterday. Charlie Taylor, the Government’s behaviour tsar, criticised homes with ‘little conversation’ where children as young […]
Hitting a child harder will not stop riots, Mr. Lammy, but it may cause them
By Sonia Poulton Last updated at 7:51 AM on 31st January 2012 On August 7, 2011 as swathes of North London resembled a war-ravaged ghetto and the landscape lay broken and smouldering, Tottenham MP David Lammy made the first of a long line of sweeping and, frankly, idiotic pronouncements concerning the community he is paid […]
Sex in the movies? It’s about as romantic as a wrestling match
By Ray Connolly Last updated at 8:05 AM on 31st January 2012 We’ve been watching quite a lot of frantic sex in our house over the past few weeks. It happens every year at this time, when BAFTA — the film and TV society for us professionals — begins counting the votes for its annual […]
U.S. Air Force colonel’s son, 13, dies in UK hospital after shooting himself following ‘row with his father’
By Richard Hartley-parkinson and Tom Kelly Last updated at 8:18 AM on 31st January 2012 A teenage son of a U.S. Air Force colonel living in Britain died yesterday after apparently shooting himself in the head at his family home. The 13-year-old, who has not been named, is believed to have been hit in the […]
Stephen Lawrence case: David Norris and Gary Dobson to appeal against convictions
By Stephen Wright Last updated at 8:21 AM on 31st January 2012 THE two race-hate thugs jailed for murdering Stephen Lawrence are to appeal against their convictions, it emerged last night. David Norris, 35, and Gary Dobson, 36, will claim that their six-week trial, which resulted in unanimous guilty verdicts, was unfair. Their move, which […]
BBC Director General: Quentin Letts throws his hat into the ring for top job
By Quentin Letts Last updated at 8:25 AM on 31st January 2012 The first and the greatest: Lord Reith, who pioneered the BBC’s tradition of independent public service broadcasting When the young John Reith applied to become the general manager of the British Broadcasting Company in 1922, there was a refreshing amateurishness to his candidacy. […]
Jimmy Storie dead: SAS ‘Originals’ last surviving founding member dies at 92
By Sarah Bruce Last updated at 8:27 AM on 31st January 2012 He was in the Special Air Service before it was even called the SAS: a member of the formidable L Detachment who carried out stealth raids and daring missions throughout World War Two. Jimmy Storie, the last surviving veteran of ‘The Originals’ who […]
RBS: How to make a pig’s ear out of a dog’s breakfast
By Richard Littlejohn Last updated at 8:47 AM on 31st January 2012 Pursuit: Stephen Hester must regret the photos of him in full hunting regalia We’ve all got pictures which come back to haunt us. In Stephen Hester’s case it was that photograph of him in full fox-hunting rig. Now he knows how the fox […]
Crime victim payouts axed: Thousands hurt in violent assaults no longer merit compensation
15,000 a year will lose out under Justice Secretary Ken Clarke’s changes Burns victims with permanent scarring will also be refused payment Compensation for anyone with a criminal record will be scrapped Motorists face a 66% increase in on-the-spot fines to support victims By Jack Doyle Last updated at 8:51 AM on 31st January 2012 […]
Richard Branson offers cheap holidays to the police
By Chris Greenwood Last updated at 8:52 AM on 31st January 2012 Scotland Yard faced fresh questions over its apparently cosy links with Sir Richard Branson last night as it emerged that police qualify for cheap holidays with his Virgin empire. The Metropolitan force’s employees can save hundreds of pounds each thanks to discounts on […]
Boy, 3, has body of parasitic sibling growing inside his stomach
Surgeons planning to remove partially formed foetus from Peruvian toddler By Simon Tomlinson Last updated at 8:52 AM on 31st January 2012 Surgeons were today preparing to operate on a three-year-old boy to remove the body of a ‘parasitic twin’ growing inside his stomach. Isbac Pacunda was left with the rare condition after absorbing his […]
Iran unveils new laser-guided missiles and warns response to any hostile action will be ‘regretful but destructive’
Iran claims its missiles can hit moving targets with a ‘high degree of precision’ By Emily Allen Last updated at 8:54 AM on 31st January 2012 Iran has issued a stark warning to the West vowing that response to any hostile action will be ‘regretful but destructive’. As tensions over its disputed nuclear programme continue […]