Whole Truth Coalition

Coastguards have been banned from using flares in rescue missions after they were ruled to be a risk to health and safety.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency says the devices, which are used to illuminate large areas of land and sea during night-time searches, could cause ‘considerable injury’.

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(The fact that no-one has been injured in the last 40 years in the Coastguard service by flares has nothing to do with it I guess !)

There will be something missing from Oxford’s Christmas lights display this year - any mention of Christmas.

Traditional themes are also being dumped in favour of a 25-metre high mobile of lanterns in the shape of the solar system.

Organisers say the new two-month WinterLight festival will include events marking the Hindu Diwali and Jewish Hannukah festivals as well as Christmas. It also coincides with the start of International Year of Astronomy 2009.

But religious leaders in the city condemned the change.

Sabir Hussain Mirza, chairman of the Muslim Council of Oxford, said: ‘I’m really upset. Christians, Muslims and other religions all look forward to Christmas.’

Rabbi Eli Bracknell of the Jewish Educational Centre said: ‘ Anything that waters down traditional culture and Christianity is not positive for the British identity. WinterLight includes all festivals but it also conceals them.’

Reverend James Grote, of the John Bunyan Baptist Church, said: ‘People are not offended by hearing each other’s faiths.’

But Ed Turner, deputy leader of Oxford council, said: ‘We are not Christmas killers. There’s no desire to downgrade its importance or prominence - there’s still going to be a Christmas tree.’

Daily Mail

( Apparantly this has been organised by the “Oxford Inspire” charity which is the cultural arm of Oxford Council and sounds like a Common Purpose ‘Inspired’ sort of organisation  and we all know how much Oxford has been infiltrated by Common purpose and it’s Cohorts)

It’s a simple pleasure that brings a little extra joy to these pensioners’ lives.
Once a day the seven friends meet up for a cup of tea and a chat on the benches outside the sheltered accommodation where they live.

But their get-togethers could soon be banned - because of claims they are an anti-social nuisance.

The housing association which owns their homes says it has received several complaints over the past two years about noise from the group, the oldest of whom is aged 96.
It is warning them that the four benches they sit on could be removed unless the friends keep it down.

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A schoolboy was held as a terrorist suspect by police support officers - for taking photographs of a railway station on a geography field trip.

Fabian Sabbara, 15, was dressed in his school uniform when he was stopped by three police community support officers for taking photos of a station on his mobile phone.

He explained he was taking pictures, as well as pedestrian counts and a traffic survey, as part of a GCSE project.

But PCSO Barry Reeve told Fabian, from Cheam in South London, to sign forms under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which allows police to stop and search at random anyone they suspect of terrorism.

The pupil from Rutlish High School, Merton, was forced to comply or face arrest after he was stopped at nearby Wimbledon railway station.

After the incident, his mother Clare and father Felix contacted police to remove any record of the incident against their son’s name - but were told it had to remain in place for six years.

Scotland Yard have since wiped the record from their database, but Mr Sabbara, 48, an audio-visual installer, said the incident could have affected Fabian’s future employment chances.

He said the matter had also sparked fear at Fabian’s school, where trips had been banned over concerns that pupils could be stopped by police for taking pictures.

Mr Sabbara said: ‘Fabian was just a 15-year-old boy trying to do his school work. He had done nothing wrong.

‘The point is, if this incident had remained on file it could affect him in years to come when he applies for jobs such as the RAF.

‘Also if there was a terrorist attack at Wimbledon station he would be a suspect. It’s just ludicrous.

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( I suggest everyone withing striking distance of Wimbledon Railway Station gets down there with their cameras en mass and start snapping away!!!)

There is a long tradition of the military suppressing news that it considers detrimental to national security by slapping a D-notice on it.

But when the D-notice committee decided that the time was ripe to publish its own official history, nobody imagined that it would fall victim to its own system.

 The history of the D-notice committee has, in effect, had a D-notice slapped on it by the D-notice committee

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GPs are to be paid cash bonuses in return for not sending patients to hospital, raising concerns that financial gain will be put before patients’ needs.

Doctors’ practices stand to earn thousands of pounds extra under the initiative, already said to have been adopted by health authorities across the country.

In a variety of schemes, which differ from region to region, GPs are said to have been offered unprecedented cash incentives for deciding not to refer a patient for specialist treatment. Surgeries are given a target of how many patients they should refer to hospital each year and will receive a windfall payment if they meet the quota.

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What a scam!! How to reduce hospital waiting lists in one fell swoop!

GP’s are on ridiculous wages as it is and  they are already on hge kick backs from the Pharmaceutical companies.This can only be detrimental to both the NHS and the health of the public by a massive increase of drug prescriptions being issued.  But of course it’s designed to be exactly this way!

Dumb down the population!

Tradesmen working for local authorities are to be asked to report signs of child abuse and neglect as they visit the homes of council tenants.

The plumbers, electricians and carpenters will be issued with a checklist of signs to look out for, including ‘unexplained bruising’ and ‘scalds’. Training will last just half a day.

But critics believe the use of workers untrained in such a highly complex field could backfire. They say that children who are at real risk could be overlooked because social workers with already bulging caseloads could be bombarded with baseless complaints.

One of the first councils to pilot the scheme will be Lincoln, which later this month is expected to approve the policy under which about 200 ‘front-line’ staff will be given four hours’ training on child abuse, with 600 backroom or office workers attending even shorter ‘awareness briefings’.

The front-liners include any employee who visits homes as part of his or her job, including rent officers. Council-employed sports coaches and leisure-centre staff, who come into daily contact with children, will also be trained.

Signs of physical abuse they are asked to look out for include ‘aggressive behaviour/severe temper outbursts, flinching when approached or touched and reluctance to get changed, eg, wearing long sleeves in hot weather’.

Signs of sexual abuse include ‘discomfort when walking or sitting down’ and ‘pregnancy’.

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