Cricket is a marvellous game. It ignites passions, as this report from the CricInfo web site confirms: Nearly 400 people have been injured in a village in Bangladesh in a series of clashes over controversial umpiring decisions in a cricket match between two rural teams. At least one man is reported to have died while [...]
The Gorey ghost
I received this email last night: I live in the UK. 40 years ago we moved to a 400 year old farmhouse halfway up a Welsh mountain (we lived there with our three sons for a few years). It was on the site of a Roman cattle road. The house needed a lot of fixing. [...]
Peter Halloran released
The story of Peter Halloran disturbed me. I’m pleased to read that he’s now been released. From The Age: Senior Victorian police officer Peter Halloran was last night cleared by the Sierra Leone Court of Appeal of sexually assaulting a teenage girl while working as a war crimes investigator for the United Nations. Superintendent Halloran [...]
Being a suspect
It must be difficult being a clean suspect in a police investigation. Through no fault of your own, fate and circumstance could make you a person of interest. The Age today reported the sad story of a real estate agent being murdered in Melbourne. This triggered my interest earlier in the day when a breaking [...]
The bomber who wasn’t
I was a bit slow reading the Saturday papers this weekend. I didn’t get to them until Sunday. It was interesting therefore to read the headlines about a terrorist being shot by police in London. The Australian trumpeted: “Five police bullets end it for London bomber who tried again”. A day later, I knew while [...]
