Enough with the cynicism already...
This post has a vague public service feel to it. I don’t know why, it just happened that way.
DEFENDING a 39 year old computer engineer charged with possessing child porn, a lawyer compared the offence to “trainspotting”.
Marc Dickson claimed his client had developed “a mechanism of storing information in file structure” because of his job, and that it had become habitual behaviour:
“It is almost akin to trainspotting,” he said.
Jan MacClory, Assistant Director of charity Children1st, condemned the comparison as “shocking, ridiculous and unforgivable”.
The defendant was jailed for two years and ordered to be placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
http://www.children1st.org.uk/
http://www.news.scotsman.com/
A REPORT published in the British Medical Journal last week concluded that Goths were more prone to pathological self-harming than other youth tribes.
The findings, however, were dismissed by Craig Steadman, one of a group of Goths interviewed by Sarah Robertson in Newcastle for the Sunday Sun newspaper.
Proudly displaying a badly scarred arm for the Sunday Sun photographer, Craig, 19, said:
“I put my hand through a glass window because I was p****d off and I’ve put cigarettes out on me because I like the pain.”
Thus far, though, he has drawn the line at suicide:
“I’ve never tried to take my own life.”
Not so a 16 year old fellow Goth who attempted suicide when he was 12 and who now routinely cuts himself “as a way of blocking out the pain”.
“I don’t think it’s fair to stigmatise people for the music they listen to or what they wear,” he said.
“You get some people with bandages on their wrists but they’re just attention seekers and they’d do it whether they were Goths or not. It’s not a requirement to hurt yourself to become a Goth.”
But it helps, huh?
http://www.childline.org.uk/
http://www.samaritans.org.uk/
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
HOW do you turn a paper clip into a hifi?
Easy. Darren Boyce has done just that in only two months.
Out with some friends for a drink one night, Gavin was challenged to follow the lead of an American who eventually traded a paper clip for a house.
Gavin set up a website for people to get involved and it saw 1500 hits in the first month.
The chain so far has been linked by a sandwich voucher, a bottle of wine and a bottle of aftershave, and Gavin has set himself a 12 month deadline to trade the paper clip up to property worth £1m.
Even if he doesn’t reach that he’s confident that “at the very least I could end up with a car to sell for the charity".
The organisation earmarked for the donation is Surrey-based children’s charity the Rainbow trust.
Visit http://www.swap2amillion.com/ to get involved.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/
DEFENDING a 39 year old computer engineer charged with possessing child porn, a lawyer compared the offence to “trainspotting”.
Marc Dickson claimed his client had developed “a mechanism of storing information in file structure” because of his job, and that it had become habitual behaviour:
“It is almost akin to trainspotting,” he said.
Jan MacClory, Assistant Director of charity Children1st, condemned the comparison as “shocking, ridiculous and unforgivable”.
The defendant was jailed for two years and ordered to be placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely.
http://www.children1st.org.uk/
http://www.news.scotsman.com/
A REPORT published in the British Medical Journal last week concluded that Goths were more prone to pathological self-harming than other youth tribes.
The findings, however, were dismissed by Craig Steadman, one of a group of Goths interviewed by Sarah Robertson in Newcastle for the Sunday Sun newspaper.
Proudly displaying a badly scarred arm for the Sunday Sun photographer, Craig, 19, said:
“I put my hand through a glass window because I was p****d off and I’ve put cigarettes out on me because I like the pain.”
Thus far, though, he has drawn the line at suicide:
“I’ve never tried to take my own life.”
Not so a 16 year old fellow Goth who attempted suicide when he was 12 and who now routinely cuts himself “as a way of blocking out the pain”.
“I don’t think it’s fair to stigmatise people for the music they listen to or what they wear,” he said.
“You get some people with bandages on their wrists but they’re just attention seekers and they’d do it whether they were Goths or not. It’s not a requirement to hurt yourself to become a Goth.”
But it helps, huh?
http://www.childline.org.uk/
http://www.samaritans.org.uk/
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
HOW do you turn a paper clip into a hifi?
Easy. Darren Boyce has done just that in only two months.
Out with some friends for a drink one night, Gavin was challenged to follow the lead of an American who eventually traded a paper clip for a house.
Gavin set up a website for people to get involved and it saw 1500 hits in the first month.
The chain so far has been linked by a sandwich voucher, a bottle of wine and a bottle of aftershave, and Gavin has set himself a 12 month deadline to trade the paper clip up to property worth £1m.
Even if he doesn’t reach that he’s confident that “at the very least I could end up with a car to sell for the charity".
The organisation earmarked for the donation is Surrey-based children’s charity the Rainbow trust.
Visit http://www.swap2amillion.com/ to get involved.
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/
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