Lance Corporal Gyanendra Rai served more than 13 years with the 7th Gurkha Rifles and was seriously wounded in the Falklands conflict. Today, lawyers for L/Cpl Rai and other Gurkhas will again be in the High Court challenging the refusal of the British Government to let them settle automatically in this country. In some cases, …

What can you say about Paul Newman that has not already been said over the past few days? Amongst the stories of celebrities falling out of taxis drunk, or flashing their bits to the press it seems that the defenition of the words ‘icon’ or ‘legend’ have all but been lost yet Paul Newman was …

Sometimes you wonder if we are trapped in our solitary isolation because of who were are. Is it a generic hereditary reason that we are who we are or do we make our own existence? Sometimes when I was a child I would often feel isolated because I did not belong. Not because of any …

Last night, as it was not raining, I decided to go for a quiet drink with a friend. It will probably the last time that I get to sit in a beer garden. Enjoying a good conversation with a nice cold beer is something that I savour as one of the small pleasures of life. …

I have spent the best part of a week back where my parents live and also the small town where I grew up. The town is nothing special, in fact it is slightly famous for being a depressive place to live. Not much to do in the way of entertainment if you are young, several …

In the past I have often wondered how far a loving subject would go if a mother knew that her child had comitted a hideous crime? Today I read of a woman who has been harassed by her local comunity for telling the police of her two children who had been bullying the local community …

Sometimes when life has battered you into near submission you need to escape and draw breath. Go to a place that feels as part of you as the land. Remove yourself from society so you find out who you are again and focus on your goals in life. I am heading to ‘that’ place in …

It is not every so often that journalists exhaust the dictionary with their praise of human achievement but in the last week this has been the case. ‘Brilliant’, ‘Sensational’, ‘Superb’ are just many of the accolades that have been praised upon US swimmer Michael Phelps and his achievements in Beijing. During my life I have …

I have always been fascinated by mythical or mysterious creatures that have spawned legendary tales for decades. One of which is Bigfoot. So my ears somewhat pricked up when I read that two American ‘Bigfoot’ hunters had not only seen one but caught it and have put the corpse in a freezer (picture above, I …

These are taken from a book I am reading about some bizzare ways people have died In 1993, Sipho Mdletshe was declared dead after being in a road traffic accident in South Africa and then spent two days in a metal box in a mortuary before his cries alerted staff. Afterwards his fiancee refused to …