Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

Yes.  I was a little excited by that headline too but the story in the Argus turned out to have nothing to do with the singer from The Police and everything to do with the Sussex Police and Brighton & Hove council instead.

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I went down to the Sussex Police Authority's very well-attended public meeting a couple of weeks ago.  It was a strange sort of meeting with several failed attempts to hijack the evening and one very successful one.  I started writing about it and never finished.
First of all there were some presentations by the Police Authority […]

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I still find it hard to understand the thinking behind the Home Office's proposals to reduce the limts for drug possession, so that someone caught with as little as 5g of cannabis could be looking at prison for up to 14 years as a dealer.  Who writes these proposals? A special committee of Daily Mail […]

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This is from an e-mail I received from the Lancaster UAF. I get these updates because I set up a website and email address for the Crawley UAF in anticipation of it getting orgaised. In the end the organisation hasn’t really formed, but the website is still there.
It might be of interest to some people […]

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Although I am not instinctively in favour of everything in this new ‘respect agenda’, I could probably be persuaded if I thought it would prevent families getting to be like the Hudsons.
Its a perfect illustration of how abuse and violence is a cycle fed by deprivation. Quite how financial sanctions like […]

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After three days of jury service I have yet to see the inside of a court room - except for the orientation session on day one.
It is now a lot less like Big Brother and more like Beckett, and if Godot turns up for trial he will probably plead guilty so that a […]

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Today I successfully served my country by sitting around in a room reading a book for several hours and listening to my new xmas CDs on my iRiver.
All those hours of loafing in a confined space, striking up the odd inane conversation with others trapped in the same place… I thought I was in Big […]

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A few interesting bits from the leaflet produced by Sussex Police entitled Mini Motorcycles - advice and guidance
It covers ‘nuisance motorcycles’ - scooters, gopeds, trikes, quads and mini motos.

Dangers
There have been accidents involving the illegal use of these vehicles and parent and users need to be aware of the possible implications of using […]

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The media seemed to be terribly disappointed to not find examples of full-scale, booze-fuelled rioting Friday night. They were out there with camera crews waiting for the trouble, but the police said that it was quieter than normal.
Of course it was. Everyone was still in the pub! I was half-expecting to see crowds of bleary-eyed […]

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I see that the Tories failed in their attempt to get the 24-hour drinking act kicked out, and I realise that it probably has a much more boring name than “the 24-hour drinking act”.
What is up with the Tories these days? Aren’t they always talking about being the party of individual freedoms and choice? Aren’t […]

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