Most people who have taken part in a pub quiz with a round on Australia will have tripped over a question put there to confound: which national capital is closest to Perth? Your pen scribbles down the word “Canberra” – because that has to be the answer, surely – only for the results to reveal that, by air, there are 1,919 miles (3,088km) between Australia’s chief city and its lone west-coast metropolis, but “only” 1,875 miles (3,018km) between Perth and Indonesia’s kingpin Jakarta. There goes your chance of winning. It is nuggets of trivia like this which demonstrate just how enormous a country Australia is. Here is a southern hemisphere giant where some of the globe’s most alluring cities knock elbows with some of its sparsest desert; a sunny oasis where soft beaches keep company with colossal coral reefs and stark stretches of dramatic shoreline. Here too is a place that, in terms of travel appeal, can be broken into seven vast … [Read more...] about 30 amazing ways to explore Australia
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668 people locked up in Greater Manchester in 2018
January The burglar who broke into a care home and sexually assaulted a woman in her 90s A man who sexually assaulted a woman in her 90s after breaking into a care home was jailed. Police said ‘shameless’ Jake Morris, 24, had ‘no place in society’ after he was caged for the shocking attack on the pensioner, who has dementia. He denied sexually assaulting her at the Leigh facility when interviewed by officers. During the court case Morris changed his plea and finally admitted his sickening crime. Morris, of no fixed abode, also pleaded guilty to burglary and assault and was jailed for six years and four months. The ‘dangerous predator’ who posed as taxi driver to rape woman on her way home from night out A ‘dangerous predator’ who posed as a taxi driver to rape a woman on her way home from a night out was jailed. Marius Dolhascanu targeted his 30-year-old victim in Wigan in 2016. After the terrifying ordeal Dolhascanu, of Hey Street, … [Read more...] about 668 people locked up in Greater Manchester in 2018
668 people who were put behind bars in Greater Manchester in 2018
January The burglar who broke into a care home and sexually assaulted a woman in her 90s A man who sexually assaulted a woman in her 90s after breaking into a care home was jailed. Police said ‘shameless’ Jake Morris, 24, had ‘no place in society’ after he was caged for the shocking attack on the pensioner, who has dementia. He denied sexually assaulting her at the Leigh facility when interviewed by officers. During the court case Morris changed his plea and finally admitted his sickening crime. Morris, of no fixed abode, also pleaded guilty to burglary and assault and was jailed for six years and four months. The ‘dangerous predator’ who posed as taxi driver to rape woman on her way home from night out A ‘dangerous predator’ who posed as a taxi driver to rape a woman on her way home from a night out was jailed. Marius Dolhascanu targeted his 30-year-old victim in Wigan in 2016. After the terrifying ordeal Dolhascanu, of Hey Street, … [Read more...] about 668 people who were put behind bars in Greater Manchester in 2018
Political dramas, heatwaves and heartbreak: a look back at 2018
January As the rest of London shakes its weary ham- and Brie-bloated self off the sofa and prepares to spend the new year working itself to the bone to fund that studio flat in Zone 4, it’s revealed that Donald Trump is to work a five-hour day, with breaks for ‘executive time’, otherwise known as ‘tweeting inane/incendiary nonsense’. The SAG Awards announces its first all-female roster of presenters, whom we assume will be paid the same as their male predecessors, unlike the women at the BBC, which announces that male presenters including John Humphrys, Jeremy Vine, Jon Sopel and Huw Edwards have agreed to take a pay cut. Hedi Slimane is announced as the new creative director of Celine: the internet loses its s*** because he decides to drop the storied label’s acute accent. London’s first vegan pub opens in (obviously) Homerton; a new US embassy opens in (less obviously) Nine Elms; and Battersea Power Station is sold for £1.6bn … [Read more...] about Political dramas, heatwaves and heartbreak: a look back at 2018
Political dramas, heatwaves and heartbreak: a look back at 2019
January As the rest of London shakes its weary ham- and Brie-bloated self off the sofa and prepares to spend the new year working itself to the bone to fund that studio flat in Zone 4, it’s revealed that Donald Trump is to work a five-hour day, with breaks for ‘executive time’, otherwise known as ‘tweeting inane/incendiary nonsense’. The SAG Awards announces its first all-female roster of presenters, whom we assume will be paid the same as their male predecessors, unlike the women at the BBC, which announces that male presenters including John Humphrys, Jeremy Vine, Jon Sopel and Huw Edwards have agreed to take a pay cut. Hedi Slimane is announced as the new creative director of Celine: the internet loses its s*** because he decides to drop the storied label’s acute accent. London’s first vegan pub opens in (obviously) Homerton; a new US embassy opens in (less obviously) Nine Elms; and Battersea Power Station is sold for £1.6bn … [Read more...] about Political dramas, heatwaves and heartbreak: a look back at 2019