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Hedgehoppers in search of good news
Roger Crutchley, Published on 01/02/2026
» Being the very first day of February it would have been nice if there was some good news worth celebrating, but unfortunately nothing immediately springs to mind. Cheerful news is an increasingly rare commodity these days. It all seems to be gloom and doom and hardly portends a joyful 2026. It can get a bit wearying grappling with news reports featuring contradictions, cover-ups and cock-ups, often accompanied by half-truths, prevarications and porky pies. But this is the world we now live in.
UK police probe mass train stabbing that wounded 10
AFP, Published on 02/11/2025
» HUNTINGDON (UNITED KINGDOM) - British police were investigating Sunday a mass stabbing on a London-bound train that left 10 people wounded, including nine critically, with two people arrested.
UK police arrest two after 'multiple people' stabbed on train
AFP, Published on 02/11/2025
» HUNTINGDON (UNITED KINGDOM) - UK police arrested two suspects after a multiple stabbing on a London-bound train late Saturday, with "a number of people" taken to hospital triggering a "large-scale" emergency response.
The amazing paddy fields of England
Roger Crutchley, Published on 05/10/2025
» Important news from Blighty. Rice has been grown for the first time in Britain in the Fens of Cambridgeshire. Apparently this is a result of an unusually hot summer. For a project that had once been dismissed as a joke it's quite an achievement. Let's hope the notoriously fickle English weather doesn't spoil it all. It will probably start snowing tomorrow.
Is Bangkok in danger of getting greener?
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 19/06/2022
» There is a decent-sized tree just over the wall at the back of my house in Bangkok which provides welcome shade. So I was a bit concerned the other day when workers from the local administration rolled up armed with a chainsaw, explaining the tree was threatening overhead electricity cables.
All the news that's fit to print
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/08/2020
» The news hasn't been particularly uplifting recently, has it? Open the paper, or switch on the television news any morning and there is a good chance you will feel like going straight back to bed and starting the day all over again.
Terror checks intensify as London attack enters election fray
AFP, Published on 02/12/2019
» LONDON - Britain's Boris Johnson said Sunday the security services were stepping up monitoring of convicted terrorists released early from prison, as the London Bridge attack became embroiled in the election campaign.
Offsetting culinary karma
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 28/09/2018
» From being chef-proprietor of the Jolly Abbot, Cambridgeshire, the UK, to personal chef to Mick Jagger, to general manager at the Aleenta Hua Hin Resort & Spa in Pran Buri, James Noble's culinary career is vast. Now, the founder of The Boutique Farmers can be found at his organic farm in Hua Hin, sowing, growing and harvesting crops that are highly sought after by some of the finest kitchens in Thailand.