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Right now I'm sitting outside enjoying a beer in the sun and all of a sudden there is a kid running around in my neighbours garden kicking a ball with a Torres Chelsea shirt on. What do I do if he kicks the ball over in my garden?

At work in the Cunard building and I can hear the baying mobs 'protesting' outside the Law Courts Derby Square. It's that loud it sounds like it's outside our building (although the buildings at the Pier Head do create an echo). Anyone seen or heard anything? Sounds like a few football chants going down too so can we assume the EDL are well represented and making themselves heard ?

...child porn. An ex copper who's not going to have a very pleasant year or so ahead. Must admit I'm surprised he only got two and a half years. I'm not sure what's more striking here, the bloke's name or the fact that the Daily Mail went with the pony shagging headline: Former Great Yorkshire Show boss jailed for filming a man having sex with a pony Charles Littleboy also had nearly 4,000 indecent images of children By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 19:04, 8 May 2012 | UPDATED: 19:04, 8 May 2012 An ex-policeman and former director of the Great Yorkshire Show was jailed for two-and-a-half years today after he admitted filming a man having sex with a pony. Charles Littleboy, 55, made the video in his stables while the man was supposedly taking part in an animal breeding practical course, Teesside Crown Court heard. Police discovered the video along with a stash of images of horrific sexual abuse of young boys on two computers at Littleboy’s home in Howe, Thirsk, North Yorkshire. He pleaded guilty last month to 11 counts of making indecent images of children, four counts of distributing indecent images of children, five counts of possessing extreme pornographic images and one count of possessing 3,904 indecent photographs of children. Some of the extreme pornography related to bestiality - including the material he filmed consensually at his property, the court heard. Other images concerned sexual mutilation of men. The film with the male pony was made a number of years ago while the man stayed at his home, Shaun Dodds, prosecuting, said. Another film police found involved the same man having sex with a dog, the police said. Depraved: Littleboy, a former member of the British Potato Council, has been jailed for two-and-a-half years and put on the Sex Offenders' Register for life Simon Reevell, defending, said Littleboy did not coerce the man to have sex with the pony. 'Although it is a difficult and unpleasant thought, there was a willingness on the part of both of them,” he said. Over six years until 2010, Littleboy downloaded images of child abuse from the internet and engaged in depraved discussions with fellow paedophiles, the court heard. In one conversation read out by the prosecution, Littleboy discussed sexually abusing a baby with a writer known as Pervy Dwain. Sick: The court heard Littleboy had discussed with other paedophiles about sexually abusing a baby Littleboy had asked: 'Tell me what you would do to a young one and how sick you would like it to be.' The indecent images found on his computer included an image of a baby around three months old being abused. Other pictures involved boys aged as young as four, and clearly showed distress. One male child was gagged and bound, the court heard. Mr Reevell said his client was a shy and private man who now faced 'utter humiliation'. He passed a number of references up to Judge Peter Fox, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, saying: “They speak of a man wholly removed from these offences.' Mr Reevell said Littleboy cared for his parents, who are aged 84 and 79. Judge Fox accepted Littleboy’s reputation was ruined, but he added: 'What you fail at present to appreciate is the utter humiliation and degradation of the victims of your crimes, both human and animal.' He jailed Littleboy for two-and-a-half years, put him on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life and banned him from unsupervised contact with children. Littleboy is a former director of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, which organises the Great Yorkshire Show, and an ex-member of the British Potato Council. He was also a police officer with North Yorkshire Police in the 1980s. Read more: Former Great Yorkshire Show boss jailed for filming a man having sex with a pony | Mail Online

Teachers - lazy bastards who can't be arsed doing a full year's work or proud defenders of childhood? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17663896 BBC News - Union stands firm over shorter summer holiday BBC 10 April 2012 Teachers have said they will resist any attempt to shorten the six-week school summer holiday. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) said any move to cut the traditional summer break would harm children's learning and teachers' wellbeing. The union passed a resolution at its annual conference in Torquay. It comes after NUT members in Nottingham staged a one-day walkout over proposals by the city council to introduce a five-term school year. The move, which could be implemented in 2013, would see the summer holiday cut from six to four weeks. Nottingham City Council says the move will boost attainment and attendance. The council says having shorter breaks means pupils are more likely to remember what they have learnt. But NUT members are planning to stage two further one-day strikes later this month. 'Nonsense' Nottingham teacher Tom Unterrainer told delegates at the NUT annual conference: "We've looked for rigorous academic research which points to the fact that learning loss takes place. There is none. "But there's plenty of evidence, plenty of empirical evidence, real world evidence out there, around the world, to show that school holiday length and the lengths of teachers' holidays and the length of time that students and young people are out of school has no verifiable impact on their outcomes. It's a nonsense." Speaking during the debate, Sheena Wheatley said: "A five-term year represents a major attack on our conditions of service." "I don't think I need to describe the impact of shortening the summer break, not just for us and our families, but also for the young people that we work with. "The projected eight-week terms would have a major effect on our workload and ultimately our health, I believe." Fellow Nottingham teacher John Illingworth said that if the plans went ahead, the city would have "the shortest school summer break in the world, at just over four weeks". Mr Illingworth said: "We don't want Nottingham to become a laboratory for testing how far we can drive our young people." A six-week break was important for children and teachers, Mr Illingworth said. "This union has stood up over the years for the right for children to play. There's been an attack on play in our schools and we're attacking children's right to play outside school." A Department for Education spokesman said: "It's rightly down to schools and local authorities to decide their own term dates and holidays, not government. "In doing so, term times must be in the best interests of pupils." The call to resist changes to the school holidays was part of a wider motion at the NUT conference on teacher workload which claimed the amount of work teachers face was getting worse. It called for the union to campaign against the problem, including national ballots for strike and non-strike action. BBC 10 April 2012 ?

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Talk Sport Oh dear. The spanish inquisition will be in touch im sure, you blimpy idiot.