Yorkshire Bitter

York nuclear bunker operations room
I’ve just spent a couple of hours in a nuclear bunker.
This bunker, just a few miles out from York city centre, was operational from 1961 to 1991. English Heritage took over what was mostly an empty shell and have been refurbishing it over the past few years, so it looks pretty […]

Yorkshire cricket legend Fred Trueman has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing 15 weeks of treatment in a West Yorkshire hospital.
I may have been born in the Red Rose county (yes, I’m working “behind enemy lines” ;)) but it goes without saying that I hope Fred sees this illness off as quickly as a […]

A woman in Luton has been fined £75 for throwing a single Cheesy Wotsit out of her car window. One of her children had thrown it into her lap and she instinctively threw it out of the window as she was driving and needed to concentrate on the road. Hardly crime of the century.
I never […]

It’s hard to see how Home Secretary Charles Clarke can survive in office, now that it’s emerged one of Bradford policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky’s alleged killers was considered for deportation a couple of months beforehand but slipped through the system.
If it had been any other murderer or rapist, there would have been the usual outrage and […]

I’ve been asked by a few people why the Chavopedia went offline and when it‘ll be back.
For those who weren’t familiar with it, it was exactly like Wikipedia, the free online encylopedia, only about chavs (especially the local variety). It seemed like a great idea at the time, made all the funnier by the large […]