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Mike Irving »
Misleading newsbreak kills off Cressroads' town hack
Posted on 10:02am Friday 15th October 2010
RIP Mr Blogsbody - town hack at large in self-styled watercress capital of the world - but listen or read carefully. He has sluffed, not snuffed it at the town's dysfunctional Lower House of Windsor. And not necessarily to everyone's relief ...
Mike Irving »
Blogsbody handed free 'scrip to Cressroads' swank fitness suite
Posted on 8:27am Monday 11th October 2010
"Too many birthdays," diagnoses Alresford Surgery - and writes the town hack a prescription to workout at the swank fitness suite in the watercress capital of the world.
Stuart Appleby »
Inspiring Advice from FOI Expert
Posted on 12:34am Wednesday 6th October 2010
News Journalism is relentless, unforgiving and indefinitely demanding, but after just starting my stint as Investigative Reporter for our University based local news website, an unsuspecting source of news has emerged as a worthwhile tool in my armoury.
Jeremy Hann »
Pomegranates and power cuts as the Taliban pushed back
Posted on 5:34pm Friday 1st October 2010
We now find ourselves at the halfway point of our ‘angry camping sojourn’ in the district of Panjwa’i. Life is getting busier as what was once our own little outpost is now co-habited with a variety of others, both Coalition forces and Afghans. Do not confuse this with an uplift in convenience and quality of life, although I do tell all that their tolerance for others will make for a culturally enriched life. Sometimes I mean it.
Jeremy Hann »
A moonlit shower with the locals
Posted on 10:49am Thursday 23rd September 2010
Luckily for the discerning reader, I have been unable to access any means of communicating with you for the last two weeks, but as they say; ‘every silver lining has a cloud…..’ My band of merry men and I are now to be found in a district called Panjwa’i, some fifteen miles south-west of Kandahar city. Our small camp is nestled between two mountain ridgelines of Pyrenean (not to be confused with perineum) aspect, and about three hundred metres from the green zone that sprouts around the nearby Arghandab River. There is a degree of notoriety afforded Panjwa’i as a result of being the place from which Mullah Omar fronted the Taleban in 1994, and as you would expect local sympathies are wildly divided between insurgents and both international and Afghan security forces. We are currently a very tiny cog in an operation to provide security and freedom for the locals by diminishing the insurgent hold on the area.
Stuart Appleby »
Being 21, Investigative Journalism and Motivation
Posted on 11:15pm Thursday 16th September 2010
So tomorrow I turn 21 years of age. It’s all come round so quickly! But asides from that 2010-2011is a big, big year for me, but I’m more motivated than ever.
Author Unknown »
End Of The Road Festival 2010
Posted on 11:19am Wednesday 15th September 2010
The Back To Nature vibe of End Of The Road clearly extended this year to the booking policy. Artists included Plants And Animals, Deer Tick, Mountain Goats, Woodpigeon, Wolf Parade, Freelance Whales, Three Trapped Tigers, Modest Mouse – and that’s just the tip of the Menagerie.
Stuart Appleby »
Winchester lad done good
Posted on 10:44pm Sunday 12th September 2010
Today I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Winchester born Hampshire cricketer Jimmy Adams.
Stuart Appleby »
Could Gurkha regiment cutbacks affect Winchester?
Posted on 10:04am Wednesday 8th September 2010
When I read news concerning a Gurkha regiment Government spending cutback last week in a selection of national newspapers, it did not take long to see how there could be wider affects of the cost-cutting.
Author Unknown »
Taliban target women politicians
Posted on 10:02am Monday 6th September 2010
With all the grim predictability that the White Star Line employees must have had regarding the jewel in their nautical crown about one hundred years ago, as that ever-so-tedious iceberg hoved into view, and that the fact that the ship didn’t quite have the turning circle of a polo pony, it is my duty to report that the situation has got worse. Having callously crowed that the amount of violence reducing and that a true enemy of soldiers deployed on operations was boredom, it was perhaps inevitable that the last couple of weeks have been anything but.
Stuart Appleby »
Cricketing conmen ruining gentlemanly game
Posted on 12:14pm Monday 30th August 2010
Cricket, arguably sports most gentlemanly and lovable game, this weekend has been attacked by the menaces of undercover betting cons.
Jeremy Hann »
Needless purchases and lizards
Posted on 11:09am Friday 27th August 2010
IT was 33 summers ago that The Minstrel, underneath Mr. Piggott won the Derby, that Elvis left the building and that I arrived in the world to much celebration and ward-wide plaudits, except from my darling mother who complained to the doctor that ‘he cannot be mine, he is far too ugly’.
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