Doncaster Rovers sack Donny Dog after underwear photograph

If you owned a football club, and the woman who dressed up as your mascot posed in saucy underwear – for charity – in a national Sunday newspaper (okay, the Sport), what would you do?

Yes, that’s it, you’d sack her, so that it got lots more media attention than you want.

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E-HMS – or HEMS, the London Air Ambulance

Whenever I hear a helicopter in the sky, I look up to see what it is, and this little beauty always makes me smile. The London Air Ambulance is an amazingly small craft that can land in the most awkward of places, including Oxford Circus.

Yesterday I noticed it land in Central London and tracked [...]

Nick Clegg, Porn and Light

Yes, it’s time to look at the news from today…

Clegg defiant against the voters

An odd day to read the news, Nick Clegg says people should not “write off” the Lib Dems, despite them slumping to sixth place in the Barnsley Central by-election.

“”In truth it was a no contest for any non-Labour candidate,” [...]

Alan Johnson lost his Nutt

Home Secretary Alan Johnson certainly lost his cool when being interviewed on Sky yesterday. Finger pointing and everything! I would assume that the Home Secretary thought he was being clever, and pointing at the interviewer in an ‘oh, I’ll teach you a lesson’ kind of way.

He’s exacerbated, it’s been a long weekend for him. [...]

You’re mocking me!

These are the few seconds of television which put Frankie Boyle onto the naughty seat.

I’m a bit confused, though. The BBC Trust took its time as usual to decide that this joke went too far. It decided that Adlington had not ‘courted publicity or celebrity status’, adding that there was no editorial reason [...]

Who runs this country?

Yesterday Gordon Brown gave the ‘speech of his life’, and today The Sun newspaper has decided that it will back the Conservative party at the next General Election, whenever that may be.

Gordon Brown interviewed on BBC Breakfast

The Sun’s actions, and their timing of their actions, show a bloody good reason why the [...]

Ian Kerr only fined £5,000

The man who ran a Trade Unionist blacklist within the construction industry was fined a mere £5,000 by Knutsford Crown Court.

Ian Kerr worked for the right-wing Economic League until 1993, when he continued to operate the blacklist for the construction companies.

He’s been paid £600,000 over the last five years alone by these companies, [...]