Jade Goody,s Mother Jackiey visits her beloved daughters grave.

"JADE Goody's mum kisses the cross on her daughter's snow-covered grave yesterday as she faces her first Christmas without the bubbly, life-loving "baby girl" she adored. With the pain of her unbearable loss still etched across her face, Jackiey Budden braved the freezing...

Department store pyjamma party,as customers are snowed in.

Children playing in department stores after closing time is usually only seen in Christmas movies. But when more than 100 customers, staff and children were stranded by snow at John Lewis yesterday, there was nothing left to do but spend the night in the bed department. ...

X-Factor beating for Christmas Title by Rage Against The Machine

Rage Against The Machine [RATM] have beating the X-Factor to gain the Title of this year Christmas Number 1. RATM song Killing in the name is now the UK Christmas number 1 for 2009. This has happened because of a Facebook campaign ageinst the the show as it's members did not...

Eurostar Transports 500 Vulnerable Passengers to France

Eurostar appear to have given up on getting their trains running this side of Christmas, and have found other means of moving the backlog of passengers waiting to travel, in one direction at least. For those still stranded on the other side of the channel, and air passengesr...

In rape cases, 'no' means 'no' to everyone except the British...

This follows on from a piece I posted yesterday around the issue of evidence on alcohol use in rape cases. In short, Lady Stern is calling for an abolition of an argument often invoked in rape cases that drunk men who rape can be excused because they know no better. This...

Drunk men who demand sex should be 'treated as rapists

"Drunken men who demand sex from their wives or girlfriends should be treated as rapists and no longer allowed to claim their judgment was blurred by alcohol, according to the head of the government's review of the rape laws."Well now. This is what seems to be a progressive...

HEROIN mixed with ANTHRAX, WARNING

HEALTH chiefs last night issued an urgent warning to heroin addicts amid fears a batch of the drug is infected with deadly ANTHRAX. One user has died of the killer bug and another two are being treated in isolation after falling ill in Glasgow. All three were admitted...

British involvement in Iraq war blamed on Blair’s ‘sycophancy'

"British soldiers were sent to their deaths in Iraq because of Tony Blair’s “sycophancy” towards Washington and the failure of the governing class to speak the truth, a former prosecutions chief says today."This is the kind of thing we need to be hearing now: the truth....

Help teens have sex without pregnancy

"If we are to lower the abortion rate among young women, we must accept that teenagers will have sex and offer them advice." This humble NowPublic author has been saying this for years. Newsflash: teenagers have sex! Another newsflash: teenagers aren't great at using...

Kick the state out of our [gay and straight] bedrooms

In many respects, this has long been the issue for me with regard to gay marriage/ civil unions. It is the interference of the state, again, in the decisions that we (any of us) make about our private lives. The UK government interferes with every single aspect of our private...