Elliott - Instablogs
Jun 16 2009
Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms. In the latest case, four Russians told their victim that he would die within 24 hours if he did...
Jun 5 2009
It was only in the months that followed, when Sonnex’s name was run through the criminal justice system, that panic set in which reaching the top levels of Government at the horrifying revelation: he should not have been on the streets in the...
Jun 1 2009
The invaders came at 11pm. Fifteen of them — singing, chanting and crashing metal objects together by our windows. “Out, out,” they shouted as they surrounded our farm — they certainly wanted us out. They broke into the house and dragged burning...
May 30 2009
The Muslim community turned on extremists in their midst yesterday, telling them they were ’sick and tired’ of their behaviour. The angry confrontation came in Luton, where anti-Islamist protesters brandished England flags last Sunday,...
May 29 2009
Last month, London cab driver John Worboys was convicted of 19 charges of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women in his taxi. Last year, the trial of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who hid his daughter in a cellar and raped her over a period of years,...
May 29 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy today set out to charm extreme-right voters with a draconian crime crackdown, announcing children’s bags would be searched for knives at the school gates and troubled high-rise ghettoes would be flooded with police. The hardline...
May 28 2009
A private hospital chain apparently charges patients hundreds of pounds extra simply because they are insured. Bills may be inflated by as much as 50 per cent, it was revealed. In one case, a bill for a scan at a hospital which was part of the...
May 20 2009
Every so often, parliamentary history is made that subsequently shapes the centuries ahead. The signing of Magna Carta still has implications for our democracy. The events surrounding Charles I and the Civil War live on today as the monarchy bows to the...
May 1 2009
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive. The question of how much of her face...
Oct 21 2008
Probably one of the most frequently asked questions about dog’s vision is whether dogs see colors. The simple answer-namely that dogs are colorblind-has been misinterpreted by people as meaning that dogs see no color, but only shades of gray. This...