Deepings darts ace Martin 'Wolfie' Adams steps up to the oche again tonight to throw for a place in the semi-finals of the BDO World Darts Championship.
As today's local papers reflect, England darts captain Wolfie needs to up his game to beat sixth-seed Gary Robson after his edge-of-the-seat (or should I say seat-of-the-pants) first and second round performances.
Unfortunately, winning the World Championship two years ago, none of our locals papers seem to know where Wolfie lives.
The Stamford Mercury,Bourne Local,and Peterborough Evening Telegraph all again inaccurately report today that Martin is from Market Deeping.
As I pointed out earlier this week, he actually lives round the corner, right here in Deeping St James...
Meanwhile, Wolfie's view of this year's tournament is regularly updated on the Daily Mail's exclusive Wolfie blog. There's also a cracking picture of 'Howling Wolfie'.
Friday, January 09, 2009
Lincoln surgeon loses 16 family members killed by Israelis...
Israel's war on the children in Gaza strikes home: A Lincoln surgeon loses 16 members of his family - including seven children and five women - who were killed by an Israeli artillery strike as they sheltered in a UN school.
An accident and emergency surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital, Hisham Al-Shwaikh knows it is pointless trying to get to his homeland to treat the injured. Israel is refusing to allow doctors in.
An accident and emergency surgeon at Lincoln County Hospital, Hisham Al-Shwaikh knows it is pointless trying to get to his homeland to treat the injured. Israel is refusing to allow doctors in.
UN SAYS ISRAELIS PUT PALESTINIANS IN 'SAFE' HOUSE...THEN BOMBED IT
THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS ISRAELI TROOPS EVACUATED MORE THAN 100 PALESTINIANS TO A HOUSE, WARNING THEM TO STAY INDOORS. THE HOUSE WAS LATER BOMBED BY THE ISRAELIS. 30 DEAD.
Just another day of carnage in the war of the children.
Just another day of carnage in the war of the children.
World outrage as almost one Israeli a day dies in Gaza conflict...
* The Times produces photographic evidence that the Israelis have been causing horrific injuries by raining white phosporous shells on civilians in Gaza - in breach of international laws, HEREand HERE...
* The United Nations suspends humanitarian operations in Gaza after two of their aid workers were killed in an Israeli rocket attack...
* The New York Times reports that the normally conservative International Red Cross issues a scathing condemnation of Israel for failing its obligations under international law to care for the wounded in a war-zone. Here's how the main ABC network in the United States reports the story, hopefully waking up the American public to the horror resulting in pressure on Condi Rice and George W. Bush to push Israel to make peace, rather than continue to give them the nod to bomb Gaza. (Israel has still not agreed to a ceasefire, but I expect they want at least another day of bombarding Gaza and in the face of mounting condemnation will agree to a ceasefire round late tomorrow or Saturday).
* The Canadian Government has the balls to blame Israel for the deaths of 40 - including many children - when they shelled a school being used by Gaza families trying to shelter from the Israeli attacks.
* UN figures reveal that 257 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli acrtion in the past fortnight and more than 1,000 children injured. Newsnight reports that 750 people have died in Gaza since Israel launched its offensive compared to just 11 Israelis.
Just another day of carnage in the war of the children in Gaza.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Claims that UFO mangled giant wind turbine in Lincs marshes...?
Claims that a UFO mangled the giant blade of a Lincolnshire wind turbine are running on BBC, Sky and ITN after one of my county councillor colleagues claims he saw mysterious bright lights in the sky.Robert Palmer is Conservative councillor for Louth Marshes division in the north of the county where he is a poultry farmer. He's also a member of Lincolnshire Police Authority and an East Lindsey district councillor.
Now he is calling for the windfarm to be closed down in case someone is chopped in half by a falling turbine blade.
What caused the damage to the massive turbine blade is a mystery and even the owners say they can't rule out UFOs.
I've heard they get up some some strange nocturnal activities in the Louth Marshes and I've no doubt Robert will be ribbed relentlessly by his colleagues over his claims to have seen mysterious bright lights late at night...
But as an ex-Army Regimental Sergeant Major who served numerous tours of Northern Ireland, I'm sure he'll take it in good heart.
UPDATE: Robert describes what he saw in an interview for Sky television which you can see at The Sun's website
Wolfie wins again...
Deepings darts ace Martin Wolfie Adams won a place through to the last eight of the World Championship on Wednesday night - but there was only a few seconds of coverage of the match on BBC2's broadcast from the Lakeside.
So I guess it couldn't have been such an entertaining and exciting match as his shaky opener on Monday!
UPDATE: Perhaps the reason Wolfie's win didn't feature big in tonight's coverage was a later match which saw reigning world champion Mark Webster sensationally knocked out by John 'Boy' Walton. It was Webster who took the crown last year from Wolfie...
So it's goodnight Mark Webster. And goodnight John Boy!
So I guess it couldn't have been such an entertaining and exciting match as his shaky opener on Monday!
UPDATE: Perhaps the reason Wolfie's win didn't feature big in tonight's coverage was a later match which saw reigning world champion Mark Webster sensationally knocked out by John 'Boy' Walton. It was Webster who took the crown last year from Wolfie...
So it's goodnight Mark Webster. And goodnight John Boy!
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Can young Cloughie return football glory to the East Midlands...?
The legendary Brian Clough would have been so proud to see his son Nigel installed as manager of Derby County tonight - the club Cloughie took to the top, over a quarter of a century ago.
News was confirmed that Nigel will take over the club as fans arrived at the Pride Park stadium in Derby to see the Rams take on Manchester United in a Carling Cup first-leg tie. Given the way Derby have been playing for far too long, few would have put money on a home win tonight against the most famous club in the world.
Even though the young Cloughie watched the match from the stands (he doesn't take over until tomorrow) his mere presence surely played a part in Derby's inspirational performance to beat Man U - despite being up against world class players like Christiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.
East Midlands clubs such as Derby, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City have been in the doldrums in recent years compared to Cloughie senior's day. Nigel, of course, learned his craft from the maestro of course. And as a young manager, he's taken non-league Burton Albion to the brink of a return to the Football League. So there's excitement that he might just repeat history...
By strange coincidence, in Brian Clough's last game as Derby manager in 1973, his side beat Man U - by the same scoreline as tonight.
I understand that Derby County are due to play Forest at the end of January - the second East Mids club that Cloughie took to European glory.
That day is likely to be even more emotional for the new Derby manager, as the A52 road which links the two clubs has been officially named 'Brian Clough Way'.
News was confirmed that Nigel will take over the club as fans arrived at the Pride Park stadium in Derby to see the Rams take on Manchester United in a Carling Cup first-leg tie. Given the way Derby have been playing for far too long, few would have put money on a home win tonight against the most famous club in the world.
Even though the young Cloughie watched the match from the stands (he doesn't take over until tomorrow) his mere presence surely played a part in Derby's inspirational performance to beat Man U - despite being up against world class players like Christiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney.
East Midlands clubs such as Derby, Nottingham Forest and Leicester City have been in the doldrums in recent years compared to Cloughie senior's day. Nigel, of course, learned his craft from the maestro of course. And as a young manager, he's taken non-league Burton Albion to the brink of a return to the Football League. So there's excitement that he might just repeat history...
By strange coincidence, in Brian Clough's last game as Derby manager in 1973, his side beat Man U - by the same scoreline as tonight.
I understand that Derby County are due to play Forest at the end of January - the second East Mids club that Cloughie took to European glory.
That day is likely to be even more emotional for the new Derby manager, as the A52 road which links the two clubs has been officially named 'Brian Clough Way'.
Our local world champ Wolfie goes for tops...
Deepings darts star Martin Wolfie Adams is back on stage tonight in the next round of his attempt to win back his World Darts Champion title.
He got off to a shaky start on Monday night in an edge of the seat early rounds battle that literally went right down to the wire when he kept missing the doubles.
Wolfie is the oldest player on the world darts circuit and as world champion a couple of years ago, has been around long enough for our local media at least to know where he lives.
But the Peterborough Evening Telegraph the
Stamford Mercury and even the Bourne Local - all insist he's from Market Deeping!
He's not. And whether they haven't checked their facts, or think it's ok to describe DSJ as part of MD, its sloppy journalism.
The truth is that Martin lives right here in the village of Deeping St James, which as residents will tell you, is not part of the town of Market Deeping. Fortunately, we've moved on from the days of 'territorial' punch-ups on the border between rival teenagers from the two parishes.
But local papers should be well aware that while the town of MD is our friendly neighbour, DSJ is a community proud of its own identity. And we have a bigger population than MD to boot!
Here endeth the whinge (for now).
Tonight's BBC2 coverage starts after Newsnight at 11.20.
Good Luck Wolfie.
If you missed Monday night's thriller, you can see highlights HERE, and the post-match interview where a relieved Wolfie praises his opponent HERE
both courtesy of BBC2.
He got off to a shaky start on Monday night in an edge of the seat early rounds battle that literally went right down to the wire when he kept missing the doubles.
Wolfie is the oldest player on the world darts circuit and as world champion a couple of years ago, has been around long enough for our local media at least to know where he lives.
But the Peterborough Evening Telegraph the
Stamford Mercury and even the Bourne Local - all insist he's from Market Deeping!
He's not. And whether they haven't checked their facts, or think it's ok to describe DSJ as part of MD, its sloppy journalism.
The truth is that Martin lives right here in the village of Deeping St James, which as residents will tell you, is not part of the town of Market Deeping. Fortunately, we've moved on from the days of 'territorial' punch-ups on the border between rival teenagers from the two parishes.
But local papers should be well aware that while the town of MD is our friendly neighbour, DSJ is a community proud of its own identity. And we have a bigger population than MD to boot!
Here endeth the whinge (for now).
Tonight's BBC2 coverage starts after Newsnight at 11.20.
Good Luck Wolfie.
If you missed Monday night's thriller, you can see highlights HERE, and the post-match interview where a relieved Wolfie praises his opponent HERE
both courtesy of BBC2.
George Dubya makes his dad look less bad...
Quote of the Day:...George W. Bush has done his father a great service by making him look like a greater President than he probably was.Jon Snow, Channel 4 News, commenting on today's historic power lunch at the White House, the first such gathering of all living Presidents of the United States for a generation. It was the idea of President-Elect Barack Obama, hosted by Dubya and also attended by President George Bush senior, President Bill Clinton and President Jimmy Carter.
Four white men. One black man. No women.
Israel's smug response after bombing THREE schools...
Yesterday, I asked how many more innocents would have to die in the Gaza conflict that has become the war of the children.
Today, Israeli forces provide the answer: many more. In the face of growing world condemnation, Israel attempted to justify bombing not one, but THREE Gaza schools in one day.
In the most horrific carnage, more than 30 people died when they attacked a UNITED NATIONS school.
The school was being used by Gazans trying to shelter from the rockets and shells raining in from land, sea and air onto one of the most densely populated patches on earth.
Many of the victims were children, as you might expect in the shelling of a school.
The Israelis claimed mortars were fired from the school and that totally justified their actions. The UN say they have no evidence that mortars were fired from the school.
I thought the Israeli PM's spokesman Mark Regey make an astonishing admission when questioned by the media.
He said Israeli forces were not to know that there might be 'civilians' inside the school.
Unbelievable.
But worse was to come from Israeli Internal Security Minister Meir Shitreet.
His smiled smugly throughout his Newsnight interview with Mark Urban.
When the horror of the school attack was put to him, the apparently uncaring Mr Shitreet responded with two words:
'So what?'
Is that totally sickening or what?
Today, Israeli forces provide the answer: many more. In the face of growing world condemnation, Israel attempted to justify bombing not one, but THREE Gaza schools in one day.
In the most horrific carnage, more than 30 people died when they attacked a UNITED NATIONS school.
The school was being used by Gazans trying to shelter from the rockets and shells raining in from land, sea and air onto one of the most densely populated patches on earth.
Many of the victims were children, as you might expect in the shelling of a school.
The Israelis claimed mortars were fired from the school and that totally justified their actions. The UN say they have no evidence that mortars were fired from the school.
I thought the Israeli PM's spokesman Mark Regey make an astonishing admission when questioned by the media.
He said Israeli forces were not to know that there might be 'civilians' inside the school.
Unbelievable.
But worse was to come from Israeli Internal Security Minister Meir Shitreet.
His smiled smugly throughout his Newsnight interview with Mark Urban.
When the horror of the school attack was put to him, the apparently uncaring Mr Shitreet responded with two words:
'So what?'
Is that totally sickening or what?
Paxo's one word weather forecast...
'Parky'
- Jeremy Paxman, BBC2 Newsnight presenter, didn't need a map or more than one word to summarise some of the coldest weather to sweep Britain in a decade.
- Jeremy Paxman, BBC2 Newsnight presenter, didn't need a map or more than one word to summarise some of the coldest weather to sweep Britain in a decade.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Peterborough Station - where inflation runs at a staggering 59%
Why have greedy rail bosses more than doubled parking charges at Peterborough Station in just two years?
Rail users were stung badly enough yesterday with New Year rail fare increases way above inflation - my National Express Peterborough-Kings Cross return ticket cost a whopping £87 - an extra £7 on the pre-Christmas fare.
Without any notice, arrogant National Express also hiked parking charges with more eye-watering increases.
As the Peterborough Evening Telegraph points out, yesterday's shock 20-per-cent rise in parking fees means that in just two years, they have imposed rises of a staggering 118 per cent.
Rail users were stung badly enough yesterday with New Year rail fare increases way above inflation - my National Express Peterborough-Kings Cross return ticket cost a whopping £87 - an extra £7 on the pre-Christmas fare.
Without any notice, arrogant National Express also hiked parking charges with more eye-watering increases.
As the Peterborough Evening Telegraph points out, yesterday's shock 20-per-cent rise in parking fees means that in just two years, they have imposed rises of a staggering 118 per cent.
War of the children as Israel kills more...
Israel killed at least 14 more children in Gaza yesterday.
Three children and their mother died after a tank shell destroyed their house in the eastern part of Gaza City.
Two more children were killed in artillery salvos from the Israel's Navy.
Among the other deaths yesterday were seven members of the same family killed when Israeli forces attacked a Palestinian refugee camp.
No surprise then that Unicef confirmed yesterday that children in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the conflict.
Gaza's hospitals are said to be overwhelmed with hundreds of casualties.
Meanwhile, the Geneva based International Committee of the Red Cross warned last night that people in Gaza are dying because Israeli shelling is preventing ambulances reaching the wounded.
The Red Cross said two Gaza hospitals had run out of fuel for their generators, and 45 wells across Gaza were out of action after they were hit in Israeli air-strikes - threatening water supplies to a third of the population.
Aid agencies warned that hospitals had been damaged and that Gaza desperately needs food to feed its people - and body bags to bury its dead.
Reuters reports the Palestinian Red Crescent saying amid the fighting, a pregnant woman had to be taken to hospital on a donkey cart but didn't make it in time. The baby was still born and the woman suffered a ruptured uterus.
But perhaps the most depressing news of the day was that the United States blocked a call at the United Nations for a cease-fire.
Meanwhile, Hamas continues to chuck rockets into Israel. But the casualty figures still highlight Israel's horrifically disproportiate response.
Accurate casualty figures are difficult in any war, but in this one, Israel has managed to prevent the world's media from witnessing what they are doing in Gaza.
The number of Israelis to die since they excalated the conflict has yet to reach double figures - ie, under ten, including three of their soldiers reported killed last night.
But it is clear that more than 500 Palestinians have died since Israel escalated the conflict, including many children and other civilians - as well as some Hamas fighters.
It is the innocents who are paying the biggest price.
How many more babies and children will have to be killed or maimed for life before this carnage is stopped...?
Gaza is fast becoming the war of the children.
Three children and their mother died after a tank shell destroyed their house in the eastern part of Gaza City.
Two more children were killed in artillery salvos from the Israel's Navy.
Among the other deaths yesterday were seven members of the same family killed when Israeli forces attacked a Palestinian refugee camp.
No surprise then that Unicef confirmed yesterday that children in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the conflict.
Gaza's hospitals are said to be overwhelmed with hundreds of casualties.
Meanwhile, the Geneva based International Committee of the Red Cross warned last night that people in Gaza are dying because Israeli shelling is preventing ambulances reaching the wounded.
The Red Cross said two Gaza hospitals had run out of fuel for their generators, and 45 wells across Gaza were out of action after they were hit in Israeli air-strikes - threatening water supplies to a third of the population.
Aid agencies warned that hospitals had been damaged and that Gaza desperately needs food to feed its people - and body bags to bury its dead.
Reuters reports the Palestinian Red Crescent saying amid the fighting, a pregnant woman had to be taken to hospital on a donkey cart but didn't make it in time. The baby was still born and the woman suffered a ruptured uterus.
But perhaps the most depressing news of the day was that the United States blocked a call at the United Nations for a cease-fire.
Meanwhile, Hamas continues to chuck rockets into Israel. But the casualty figures still highlight Israel's horrifically disproportiate response.
Accurate casualty figures are difficult in any war, but in this one, Israel has managed to prevent the world's media from witnessing what they are doing in Gaza.
The number of Israelis to die since they excalated the conflict has yet to reach double figures - ie, under ten, including three of their soldiers reported killed last night.
But it is clear that more than 500 Palestinians have died since Israel escalated the conflict, including many children and other civilians - as well as some Hamas fighters.
It is the innocents who are paying the biggest price.
How many more babies and children will have to be killed or maimed for life before this carnage is stopped...?
Gaza is fast becoming the war of the children.
What's wrong with the youth of today...
The rather bizarre British tradition of Morris Dancing is apparently dying on its feet. Chief Bagman (I kid you not) of the Morris Ring which represents 200 troupes of mainly male dancers warns that today's youngsters find it too embarrassing to dress up in white stockings and funny hats and prance around public car parks with jingly bells strapped to their legs and waving hankies and sticks at each other...
Can anyone really be surprised...
And I wonder what will find to replace Morris Dancing...Any suggestions?
Monday, January 05, 2009
Quote of the Day: who's the man who walks behind the horse...?
"You're like the man who walks behind the horse with a bucket..."
Jeremy Paxman to Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, suggesting that after getting egg on his face following his holiday ride on a Russian oligarch's big boat, his boss David Cameron was not letting him make economic speeches any more.
Paxo noted (on tonight's Newsnight) that since the Osborne's disastrous own goal after his holiday yacht trip, Cameron had made nine economic speeches against wee Georgie's just one!
Jeremy Paxman to Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, suggesting that after getting egg on his face following his holiday ride on a Russian oligarch's big boat, his boss David Cameron was not letting him make economic speeches any more.
Paxo noted (on tonight's Newsnight) that since the Osborne's disastrous own goal after his holiday yacht trip, Cameron had made nine economic speeches against wee Georgie's just one!
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