https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sanctioned-trustee-removed-and-charity-closed-down-following-investigation

Boy found

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1845624/british-boy-Alex-Batty-found-france/amp

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/gang-attack-scots-motorbike-garage-31667303

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/government-scraps-dedicated-minister-for-disabled-people-13030214

Now loaded onto a junior minister alongside their other roles.

Have you got a favourite Christmas song or carol?

Have to admit I hadn’t even heard of ‘I’m a little star’

https://youtu.be/vxRhhvo-nCU?si=j1m7bne0raaRihcO

You don’t have to chose one from the ones on the link - unless you a few hours to spare 😳

After intervening in an attack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67701507.amp

Interesting that another paper gave the impression he was on his own

Leading to money being given for Conservation cut by 15%

🤨 interesting

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/15/inflation-pay-deals-scottish-ministers-budget-black-hole

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/geminid-meteor-shower-uk-dates-how-to-see

But then they give a ‘three year grace period’

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-ban-eating-dogs-2023-11-17/#:~:text=Eating%20dog%20meat%20has%20been,the%20prospect%20of%20a%20ban.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jimmy-tarbuck-house-hit-and-run-b2462981.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67656220.amp

Reports coming in

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67710494

Anyone who has a Nectar card will know that from time to time at the Sainsburys checkout you will get a printed voucher offering extra points if you buy the product advertised. Also about 50% of the time the advertised product is not on sale in the shop. At least that's the case in Orpington.
Up to now, if its not been in the Orpington shop, I have always found it in the larger Locksbottom shop. But now I have a voucher for something they don't sell in either Orpington or Locksbottom.
The voucher is for 200 nectar points if I buy 180g pack of Arla Bob mature cheddar cheese.
So the search is on. Tomorrow I'm going to my next nearest Sainsbury's in Chislehurst. I have an Oyster card so there is no travelling cost.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/great-yarmouth-hippodrome-circus-acrobat-31670324.amp

Let’s hope he is ok 😢

https://news.sky.com/story/man-who-raped-woman-in-front-of-other-passengers-on-london-underground-jailed-13028524?dicbo=v2-srngyRZ

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-12-12/calls-for-police-probe-into-biggest-deaths-crisis-in-nhs-history

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/russian-presidential-hopeful-vows-champion-peace-women-humane-105541931

Wouldn't the world be a better place if all future leaders had these values?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/latest-weather-map-shows-huge-chunks-of-uk-covered-in-snow-on-christmas-day/ar-AA1loTzQ?ocid=weather-verthp-feeds&cvid=f7d27435b2264b56965ee7ebf01d2e22&ei=49

After he soaks homeless man’s sleeping bag

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67674981

Why don’t we take a look at shrinkflation


https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20231213000100

After knocking a nurse down

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/american-driver-secret-service-uk-crash-b2461897.html

https://sundayguardianlive.com/news/mysterious-white-lung-syndrome-cases-reported-worldwide

It’s taken a while to get to court
Due to all the backlogs

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/west-country-mum-ex-partner-8944974?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=organic

One constant ahead - in three weeks time the days start getting longer.

Are you counting?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67687565 On TV tonight. I'm feeling it might be too depressing to watch, though!

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-jailed-after-6-minute-video-emerges-beating/story?id=105416522

Will they act soon or say when it happens “we will learn from our mistakes” !!!!




https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67654008

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67674987

What a shock, those gorgeous little boys. Abandonment and manslaughter

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-sky-news-blog-12541713

And a safeguarding review after a vulnerable adult killed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67497063

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67666072

Have just seen a post on Nextdoor about the cost of visiting some Santa's Grottos locally.
£30 at Ruxley Manor , £40 at Bewl Water were quoted. So I decided to google where was the most expensive. Depending how you view it,
Harrods grotto is only £20, but only after you have spent £2,000 in store.
Hamleys grotto is in The Ritz hotel. Entry is £250 or a family of 3. Extra children can be added for £75.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boris-johnson-grimsby-town-hat-b2461256.html

One of my many grandchildren has recently told me that people have to be careful what colours they wear together as it can give an impression of their gender/sexuality dependent on the flags of those choices/lifestyles

Pink, blue and white - Trans !!

Did everyone else know this . Am I so behind the times?

https://outrightinternational.org/insights/flags-lgbtiq-community

Went to the Post Office today to send a calendar to a friend in the USA. Postage cost more than the calendar. I was using the self service machine and the screen said to fill in a Customs Declaration Form. There were none there and no staff except for one person at the counter with a queue of at least 10 customers. I waited around for some time, but in the end I just posted the calendar without the CDF.
Will this make any difference to how soon it reaches it's destination?

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/650300

Doesn’t seem like justice

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/08/six-teenagers-convicted-france-samuel-paty-teacher-beheading-2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-67654360

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67662158

Listen to the accent guy

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe8kNJ5o/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12839273/amp/Hugh-Grant-wife-Anna-donate-20-000-Britains-kindest-plumber-says-generous-Christmas-gift-wonderful.html?ico=amp_articleRelated_with_images

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12839509/amp/Elf-safety-21-million-Brits-injure-preparing-Christmas-research-suggests.html

Have you had an accident at Christmas?

Just posting this as some of us (including me) may feel as if we've been trudging about in winter weather a bit too much. The owners of these shoes really would have done a lot of trudging, probably all their lives. https://www.instagram.com/p/C0f0BpLuC84/ It's such a beautiful and apparently simple painting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67622511

https://news.sky.com/story/tourists-flip-venice-gondola-after-refusing-to-stop-taking-selfies-13024789