98th Entry Halton Apprentices

I understand it is to be a full moon for Halloween!

Here at ‘Apprentice Towers’, life has been disturbed from its former tranquil state to resemble Bedlam.  A new en-suite bathroom is being installed in an upstairs bedroom and a new kitchen is being installed on the ground floor. It is, in simple terms, chaotic. All this work has come on top of a new central [...]

I met this bloke with a didgeridoo and he was playing Dancing Queen on it. I thought, ‘That’s Aboriginal.’
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This lorry full of tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins. It was a turtle disaster.
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I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said ‘Tenpin?’ I said, ‘No, permanent.’
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I went into [...]

The cartoon in the Daily Mail yesterday is, for me, a classic. It epitomises everything that has gone wrong with policing in Britain - a copper running past thieves to nick an old lady who has wrongly parked. And it touches on a wider theme: it exposes why regard for the police has fallen in [...]

£3000 proposed tax on your new car to save the planet

£2000 car scrappage allowance to save the economy
Now that’s some serious joined-up government thinking.
 

Here is another take on the subject of devolution which is currently a hot topic in our comment columns. Brown talks about the Scottish, the Welsh and the Irish -rarely does he mention the English. Brown quote: “The purpose of devolution, whether it is to Scotland , or to Wales or to Northern Ireland or [...]

Do you buy the RAF News to keep in touch with todays mob? I have to confess I do not. I have never thought the RAF News a great read and so have never bothered with it much. I saw a copy the other day and flicked through it in a couple of minutes and I [...]

Right, I’ve finished cleaning the moat and trimming the helipad (I have to do my own, you know) so I thought I’d catch up on the news. Here is something that I missed  a couple of months back.
Equipment and staff shortages evidently led to the Sea King SAR service at RAF Boulmer being suspended. I [...]

Her hair was up in a pony tail,
Her favorite dress tied with a bow.
Today was Daddy’s Day at school,
And she couldn’t wait to go.But her mommy tried to tell her,
That she probably should stay home.
Why the kids might not understand,
If she went to school alone.
But she was not afraid;
She knew just what to say.
What to [...]