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'Due to heavy traffic, a porche collided with a van further down the road'

http://www.nottinghampost.com/Radcliffe-Road-closed-cyclist-hit-car/story-26372882-detail/story.html

Due. to. heavy. traffic.. Breathtaking.

This dog has taken matters into his own paws: ^^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-32411621

My favourite thing about this story is this picture:

Typical uninsured driver - jumps into passenger seat when the cops arrive...

I'm looking forward to the film: Lassie On A Massey.

The Hatton Garden heist:

If you had to protect and secure something very precious in a vault, shitty hand-made No Smoking signs don't instill confidence.

Might aswell have fitted a vault catflap leaving them bars bent out like that.

My favourite bit is the: "there were no serious injuries... treated for serious leg injuries" contradiction.

the flash crash trader story is quite a wierd one, i don't know which side i fall on, yes he may well have manipulated the markets but there are massive firms ( algo trading and high frequency trading ) doing this kind of manipulation on a daily basis, in fact the US FED itself is one of the worst manipulators out there, providing support for any kind of downward trending market and ensuring a rising market for the last 6 years

there is a nic leeson quote that is quite funny "It's just very, very difficult to see how somebody so small has done something so big."

£1bn losses nic and you were a small back office clerk, quite an ironic quote

it's a shame the US regulators don't look a bit closer at their own problems before attacking a small fish, but then how else would they send out a message to the people

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11557755/Flash-crash-trader-Navinder-Singh-Sarao-sat-on-27m-fortune-while-his-mother-worked-two-jobs.html

Tower hamlets has a chance at proper representative democracy again!
Rahman has been kicked out of the Mayor's seat and banned from seeking office again.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/23/tower-hamlets-mayor-lutfur-rahman-found-guilty-of-electoral

It would be nice if the directly-elected mayor post was henceforth abolished and we could go back to having the council make decisions.

Welcome to Britain. Enjoy your stay.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/yarls-wood-hunger-strike-at-immigration-removal-centre-for-release-of-widow-10196889.html

After a month the pair offered to return to India, but Bhavisha says they were told they would be detained until their case had been processed.

Seeing as there is a private company making dosh off the Patel's staying longer, there clearly is a profit motive here somewhere... I am presuming it was a civil servant of some sort who decieded lock them up and keep them here? If so, the system is rigged in favour of corruption, if Serco themselves made the decision you know what's up.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/comedy-phallus-crusader-gets-potholes-9105592

You're not familiar with @pooface and his #poogate Insty campaign then?

David Petraeus, a retired US four-star general and former CIA director, has been put on probation and fined for leaking material to his mistress.

Mr Petraeus resigned from his post at the CIA in 2012, after it emerged he was having an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

He could have faced a year in prison, after his guilty plea two months ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32436936

However he continues as an adviser to the White House. Mean while Bradley Manning Edward Snowden, apologies, facing life in prison if he ever goes back to the US.

Chelsea Manning is already in jail, doing a 35 yr stretch.

well i guess my error goes to further my point

So apparently even neutral service drivers use the "I'm a good driver, mate" excuse when making bad judgement calls

“We are assured that, aside from a split-second error of judgement, all protocols were followed, both to mitigate the chance of an accident and how to respond after an accident.”

http://cyclingtips.com.au/2015/04/with-investigations-concluded-shimano-issues-apologies-for-tour-of-flanders-neutral-service-car-incidents/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/25/migrant-boat-crisis-the-sergeant-who-did-his-duty-towards-people-struggling-for-their-lives

Things are pretty shitty when this passes as good news.

Yes, exactly. If he'd made everyone loadsamoney working at a bank nobody would have complained about how he was doing it. But he made himself lots of money, on his own, at the expense of some Americans, so they're just pissed he lost them lots of money and that someone so small managed to exert so much power.

Why is Edward Snowden held up as a hero by so many? As far as I understand it, he's a small-state libertarian Republican who is big on guns etc, the only reason he did what he did was his opposition to 'the government'. He's basically a Tea Party type isn't he?

He uncovered systemic illegal activity perpetrated by his government, and other governments, when nobody else that was involved thought to say - hang on, all this shit that you're doing is blatantly against the law that you pretend to uphold.

His political leanings and attitude to gun control are probably irrelevant, whatever they may be.

And this is what an avalanche on Everest feels like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JC_wIWUC2U

here you go lfgss time to try your skills out there in the real world

http://metro.co.uk/2015/04/28/the-competition-where-all-the-puns-are-crap-5170355/#mv-b

Conservatives decide to make the economy the key to their final days campaigning.

Today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32493745

And happy Ed Balls day.