The Locker Room

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31121160

You can usually find a few idiot drivers on mornings like this.

Fifty years ago today, Britain saw the end of an era with the laying to rest of Sir Winston Churchill. I recall the day well - I was undergoing glider pilot training at an RAF station just outside Manchester. There was no flying that morning; we had a short parade where the CO of the school emphasised Churchill's wartime role (we didn't really need telling but the CO had been a wartime flyer; so his views counted for a lot with us) and then we crowded into the crew-room to watch the funeral on TV. Black & white picture, of course, but the atmosphere along the route of the funeral procession was very clearly communicated - an almost total sense of grief amongst ordinar…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31069070 With anyone earning over 50k and claiming child allowance, having to have their self assessment tax return in by midnight, please make sure you do so. You could probably live with the £100 fine, it's the visit from DPS I'd be more worried about.

All the best for you 65th birthday bouncer, have a drink on me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-30913269 With the recent collapse in world energy prices, and local planning authorities around the UK unlikely to ever authorise planning permission for fracking, is this the death of the shale industry in the UK before it has even started?

I thought that the BBC news coverage was very moving today. Lets just hope that when the remaining survivors have all gone, the youngsters of today (and others too) do not forget what exactly happened at the concentration camp/s, and that the memory of those atrocities is never allowed to dwindle.

...in these dark days to put a smile on your face. http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/this-footage-of-a-policeman-dancing-to-shake-it-off-is-ridiculously-cheering--x1tB5Ndeog Scroll down to the You Tube video, crank up the speakers and enjoy :)