Yorkshire Bitter

Just got home from work to see the aftermath of yet another crash on the dreadful A63/A19 junction between Barlby and Osgodby.
I have no idea at this moment how many vehicles were involved and whether anyone was hurt, but I think there were at least two police vans and an ambulance. I caught a glimpse […]

Why, oh why, does the bin lorry in Barlby have to come round at 7am on a Monday morning?
Somebody at an office in Portholme Road must really, really hate Barlby - or maybe is some ex-military type who thinks we should all be awake at 7am and put our wheelie bins out on Sunday […]

What is it with the “Religion of Peace”? Once again we find baying mobs in the streets, this time burning effigies of the Pope in the name of Islam.
In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted the 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II, who said: “Show me just what Mohammed […]

The Association of Chief Police Officers is getting a bee under its flat hat about motorists who have the temerity to hire a lawyer to defend themselves in prosecutions:
Reckless drivers who use legal loopholes to avoid conviction are being targeted in a new police initiative.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) is training police […]

I did say I had got bored of the whole ‘chav’ thing, especially once it became an excuse for snobs to look down on poor and underprivileged people.
But to me chavdom was never so much about what people wore or where they bought their food, it was about a certain type of anti-social behaviour. And […]

Everyone who was around in the 1960s says they can remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard JFK had been shot. Likewise, most of us born a little later can remember where we were when some airhead clothes horse called Diana died in a car accident.
But the great epoch-defining event […]

Sunflowers 008
Here’s a sunflower field growing not too far from my doorstep. If you go to Flickr to view the full set, you can just see Drax in the background. Now how many of these fields would it take to create enough biofuel to power a station the size of Drax?
Mind you, I must admit […]

Two women who were charged with aggravated trespass at the Drax protest have appeared at York magistrates’ court and been granted unconditional bail until 23 October.
Marcia Tubbs, 35, of London Road, Brighton, and Ellie Lucas, 23, of Burns Street, Nottingham were arrested at Drax in North Yorkshire last week.
They appeared before York magistrates on Wednesday […]