Barry Howard, star of Hi-de-Hi (he was one half of the dance instructors) and other things, including panto, dies aged 78

Television star best known for playing Barry Stuart-Hargreaves has died of blood cancer

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/28/barry-howard-star-of-hi-de-hi-dies-aged-78

More tragedy from the land of the gun for all.

A two-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his mother in the US city of Milwaukee after finding a gun in the back of their car.
The woman, Patrice Price, had been driving a car owned by her security guard boyfriend who had left his gun in the car, her father Andre said.
Milwaukee police said she was shot once in the back while driving on a local highway on Tuesday morning.
Also in the car were Price’s mother and her other son aged one.
Mr Price said she also had an older daughter, and described Patrice as “hardworking”.
“Now I don’t have her no more. My chest has been hurting,” Mr Price told Milwaukee station WISN.
“I have a knot in my chest. They won’t even let me see my daughter. I wanted to hold my daughter for one last time.”
Last month, a four-year-old boy in Florida shot his mother, Jamie Gilt, in similar circumstances.
A gun had slid from underneath the front seat of the car to the back and he unbuckled himself to get it. Ms Gilt survived the shooting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36152462

What was the name of that film, the one where the law was suspended one day a year…? Maybe that needs to be taken up by the US government as a way for the populace to let off steam and play with their guns, although it might need to be once a week…

Re 13

Yes, the Aussies have got somethings right. They do not as yet have an uncontrolled mass invasion.

And if they put that money into helping those people in their own countries rather than paying criminals to screw those people over again…do you think that might help?

Joined up thinking, Johnny boy, is not your forte…

Rii As some one who has an ex Australian immigration friend it is not whitefellas that get an easy ride any more than the Asians who turn up with no skills and a pack of lies about coming for a holiday.This is in response to a discussion prompted by an Australian Programme called “Nothing to Declare”
It would also be nice if you knock off derogatory remarks. I assume you are not white and would not like to be called a brown fella or Abbo
As for John Green I agree with him and just wish the UK did the same!

So you don’t agree that if these people were white then they wouldn’t be turned away? As with Trump’s proposal for a southern border wall, it is all about being the wrong sort of refugee. Like nearly every other country in the first world there is a need for an increase in the working population (or a big decrease in the retired, pensioner classes) and you aren’t going to get that increase in the immediate sort term the traditional way.

And can you see John employing British chavs to wait hand and foot on him, day in, day out, rather than ex Hungarian brain surgeons or former Somali commodities brokers?

So you don’t want newly qualified or junior staff; you don’t want them to be inexperienced or worn out when working, yet when they try to dispute the implementation of a contract which would stretch those problems further you slag them off rather than the ministerial chump who would delight in expanding the working experience of the junior doctors without exponentially expanding the staff numbers or funding.
Maybe if there was some sort of tacho card issued to junior doctors with the same remit that HGV drivers must follow…

Your life in their hands – their hands being attached to a body that works a minimum of a 48 hour week, and more in A&E.
And they are juniors – they will still be in the learning stage. Learning how to work without sleep, maybe?

The contract is being imposed, without consultation. Maybe you would decide that you know someone else’s job better than they do and are happy to tell them how to do their job without providing the resources to do that job? There were suggestions that the contract be tried out at a few hospitals, but since it was a Labour suggestion you can guess how Hunt responded.

Paul, may I please practice retrophrenology upon your skull? It might help you in the long run…

Before even reading your rant I am delighted to point out that they are doctors, unless you are referring to people who work on the docks, unloading and loading ships, etc…

And John wouldn’t differentiate with a petition raised by the Daily Mirror, or even the Morning Star, oh no.

Actually, when the pricing changed from gallons to litres was when the difference went seemingly unnoticed…
I can remember my father moaning about the price going up by a penny a gallon, rather than some fraction of a penny, yet when the price goes up by a penny or four then that equates to a helluva lot more since there are more than 4.5 litres (4.54609, in fact) to the old gallon!