news Fifi style

After the very sad news  today of a Police helicopter crashing, or falling out from the sky in Scotland, I feel for the families who are now grieving as there are at least eight known to be dead. At about ten thirty in the evening, the copter fell from the sky into a Public house, whilst people were enjoying their evening and listening to the music from the band that was playing at the time.

You would not expect such a tragedy to occur!

Again, my heart goes out to those hurt by this incident.

Other news from the UK and around the world that I found of interest is

BRITAIN is to vote on whether to pull out of the EU after a bill was given the green light by MPs.   It’s been voted to approve a referendum bill on EU membership set for 2017. The bill must now also pass the House of Lords, and will then become law. There is a lot of interesting commentary surrounding the bill, with one party calling this a buck-passing move since the next general election will be in 2015, and a future government could revoke the referendum bill if it passed. 

“Well I for one, hope it goes through and I shall be voting for sure.

 

The coalition government has outlined its proposals to reduce energy bills in the wake of rising costs. Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, said their plans would cut bills by an average of £50, in an article in the Sun on Sunday.

“What they are not telling us is, the drop of £50, will take until 2020 before we receive our money back. Well, wouldn’t surprise me.

 

Women who want to get to the top shouldn't have a baby, an  MP has suggested. Speaking in a debate in the European Parliament Mr Agnew, who represents the Eastern region, said that poor childcare and sexism were hindering women from climbing the ladder.

“Well, I think if women want to have children, and they also want to pass their children onto others to bring them up, they have that right, though I don’t agree, unless that person is the child’s Father. What I don’t agree with for women wanting to climb the ladder and having children is, they get high up in the workplace have a child, off for so many months, leaving the place of work having to sometimes retrain other staff members, or even doing without that placement for some time, then the Mother comes back to work, then is off with baby being ill, having to go to the Doctors, having first teething problems, then Nursery, then calls as their baby is sick and needs to be at home, then the child is too ill to go to school/nursery so more time off work for the Mother.

My Husband now is without a Pa as his lovely lady he had left to have a baby, his one who took over the job had to leave as was offered a full time job elsewhere knowing the old Pa would return soon. But not soon enough as there is a gap now.

Another friend of mine is working full time as is the Father. They have a nanny full time so who is bringing up the child?

Why have a child if at least one parent is not going to look after that baby?

 

Police are hunting a gang of "hoodies" after a man was stabbed to death outside a pub. Christopher Foster was attacked while having a cigarette with a male friend in an alleyway outside St Christopher's Inn in Borough High Street, Southwark, and central London.

“Gosh, how fortunate that other man was, for him not to get stabbed? Odd?

 

Banning the stimulant drug, khat, spelt with the letter h in it for screen readers, will "drive a wedge" between police and Yemeni and Somali communities, an MP has warned. The Home Affairs Committee has urged ministers to reverse plans to re-grade the plant as a class-C drug.

“The fact is, it’s a bloody drug. This class system we have is ridiculous. They should all be band A.

Those Somali’s want to take those drugs, then leave Britain. Respect our laws and don’t expect to change them.

 

Chris Huhne, the former Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister, has said his party and Labour could form a "historic radical coalition" after the 2015 general election.

“Well, if I was Labour, I would tell Chris Huhne to go to hell.

After what they did to Labour in the last election, two faced with a capital T.

Licking the backsides of Gordon Brown and his party, then in the end sniffing up to the Conservatives, to form a coalition.

 

The 'world's oldest public toilet' has been discovered in Argentina - and scientists claim dinosaurs used enormous piles of faeces to scare away predators.

“Well, I  know what to do now. I shall start to disconnect our alarm and get our three beasty girls to help me out. I will start to collect tomorrow. Burglar Bill, watch out!

You may find yourself in deep ****

 

More than a quarter of patients taken to hospital for heart failure now have diabetes, a report reveals today. Experts warn that rates of the illness are reaching 'epidemic' levels largely due to rising rates of obesity.

“Dam, that put me right off my bar of chocolate.

 

NASA has announced plans to grow plants on the moon by 2015 in a project designed to further humanity's chances of successfully colonising space.

“And why? I shall tell you, because someone somewhere, knows more than Jo public about where poor earth will be in some years soon.

And where will Jo public go?

 Not space, but to dust.

The rich will enjoy their plants in their new world, as the one they left will have blown up.

 

A simple urine test could distinguish between aggressive and less aggressive bladder cancers according to a new Cancer Research UK study published in the British Journal of Cancer.

“This is fantastic news, if then there is treatment for the cancer.

 

One of our TV presenters, Esther Rantzon aged 71, has launched a wonderful telephone line, for all those elderly who are lonely. I think this is wonderful, but should be for all ages.

That’s the news from the Fifi news room. X