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Posted: 13-05-2012 09:57 Post subject:

still reckon Pudsey is Esther Rantzen in disguise.

Posted: 13-05-2012 10:05 Post subject:

Posted: 14-05-2012 01:31 Post subject:

I'm waiting for Cowell to release Puddsey's first single.

Posted: 14-05-2012 02:09 Post subject:

Posted: 14-05-2012 22:14 Post subject:

Erm...

I'm missing the good news aspect.

There may be Fortean precedents, but a dancing dog???

Where's the talent in 'Britain's Got Talent' when a fluffing DOG wins???

Is it a talent for watching crap TV and spending money on it?

Where's they good news?

I think not Cool

Posted: 14-05-2012 22:50 Post subject:

Posted: 14-05-2012 22:55 Post subject:

All will be well as long as Cowell keeps his paws off of the dog.

Posted: 31-07-2012 08:44 Post subject:

An unusual Sat Nav story:

Police return stolen item before it is reported missing
8:00am Tuesday 31st July 2012 in Falmouth/Penryn

Determined policing led to a happy surprise for a Falmouth driver last week, when police returned his stolen SatNav without him having even reported it missing.

Design engineer Rafal Kmiec had parked up overnight in Woodlane about three weeks ago.
“I must’ve left the car open,” he said. “There was no sign of a break-in to the car and inside nothing was damaged - I actually didn't realise straight away but after two days, when I wanted to use it, the GPS [Global Positioning System, or SatNav] wasn’t there.”

Rafal thought of going to the police, but he didn’t because no damage had been done and he wasn’t sure of exactly when the crime took place.
He said: “I thought I would just cause hassle for them and the value was not that great - although it was quite a good model.
“So you could imagine how surprised I was when after a week a policeman came to my work and he had my GPS with him!”

PC David “Edd” Clarke had found the GPS after following three teenage boys on mopeds. They were acting suspiciously and riding erratically around Falmouth one night.
The errant riders eventually abandoned their vehicles in the Sainsbury’s car park at Ponsharden but when the police caught up with them and searched their mopeds they discovered Rafal’s GPS.

He said: “It was like a miracle, as I hadn’t reported it stolen so the police didn’t know whose GPS it was.
“So they interrogated the boys and they eventually admitted it wasn’t theirs but they only remembered that it was from a green Audi.
“The police then looked through the favourite addresses on my GPS and they found my work address - so they visited my work place and ask who owned a green Audi and that’s how my GPS was returned to me.
“It made my day. That was a very impressive police job.”

PC Clarke said: “When I went to the work address the SatNav stopped me on the main Helston road. Just on the off chance I went down a side road and happened to come across the company he worked for.
“It was like ‘bingo’ and the guy’s face lit up when I walked into the room because he certainly didn’t expect to see it again.”

Sergeant Dave O’Neill, from Falmouth Police Station, said: “Edd did some good work there.
“It all stems back to three youths stealing a motorbike, from that they found a car had been broken into and we had a GPS but no owner.”
PC Clarke inspected the GPS and “eventually tracked the owner down and returned the GPS – a TomTom – to him,” Sgt O’Neill said.
“It’s good work and it’s determined work as well. He kept following a single lead he had got, eventually finding the owner of the TomTom, who had not reported it to us.
“He was delighted and we were happy to have detected the crime.”

PC Clarke advised drivers to never leave valuables unattended in their car and to always remove the “suction cup” that holds a SatNav/GPS to the windscreen.

Rafal added: “My own piece of advice is it’s worth reporting stolen goods to the police, even if they are not of massive value because that actually might help them later on to investigate the case.”

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fpfalmouth/9835560.Police_return_stolen_item_before_it_is_reported_missing/

A case of not-so-dumb cops! Cool

Posted: 31-07-2012 11:42 Post subject:

It's just as well the police found it, because admitting he left the vehicle open would have invalidated his insurance. Confused

Posted: 31-07-2012 11:54 Post subject:

Posted: 15-08-2012 18:10 Post subject:

Not often you hear of hovercraft these days.

Posted: 03-01-2013 09:02 Post subject:

A new piece of public art - but definitely not Modern Art!

Bedford coffee shop boasts Michelangelo fresco recreation

A fresco painted on the side of a Bedford coffee house using an ancient artform may "last for a thousand years", the shop's owner claims.
Part of Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl has been recreated on the outside wall of Frescoes in Mill Street.

Artist Iain Carstairs used pigment paint on lime plaster, a technique dating back to about 1500BC.
Shop owner Kevin Kavanagh, said: "The building will fall down before it fades."
He said the piece, copied from a work currently on the ceiling of Rome's Sistine Chapel, took three months and approximately £12,000 to complete.

The fresco on the coffee shop measures approximately 34 sqm He added he was "delighted" with the result.
"Painting on lime with pigment paint gives it longevity, which is why you can see works of art around the world which have lasted for hundreds of years," he said.
"The lime plaster mix that you put on first, you could hit it with a sledgehammer and it wouldn't break."

The Frescoes' owner, who describes himself as a "bit of an art lover", regularly displays pieces from local artists in his shop.

Local people contributed to the cost but most of it came from Mr Kavanagh's own pocket.
He said it was his way of "adding to the culture of the town".
"It's had a tremendous impact locally and really taken off," said Mr Kavanagh.
"People have been amazed to see the incredible work that has gone into it and the final result certainly has the wow factor." Cool

Artist Mr Carstairs said: "I hadn't realised how tricky it would be but I am very happy with the result and want to do some more."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20888023

I hope he's right about the longevity of the fresco. Our often damp climate can encourage mould to grow, and with hardly any protection from eaves on the roof the fresco could also be at risk from bird droppings...

Posted: 03-01-2013 21:40 Post subject:

I may pop over to see it, as it's near me...

Posted: 03-01-2013 22:32 Post subject:

Let's hope the local chavs don't decide to improve on it with their spray cans.

Posted: 03-01-2013 22:41 Post subject: