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[Tweed Heads forward Austin lost several teeth in the incident and also broke his jaw.]

From the BBC

An Australian rugby league player competed for more than four months with an opponent's tooth buried in his head.
Former NRL prop Ben Czislowski needed stitches above his left eye after clashing heads with a rival on 1 April.

But Czislowski later suffered an eye infection and shooting pains until a doctor discovered the cause last week.

"I can laugh about it now but the doctor told me it could have been serious," said the 24-year-old, who now keeps the tooth on his bedside table.

Czislowski, who was playing for Brisbane team Wynnum when he clashed heads with Matt Austin, said he was prepared to mail the tooth back to its rightful owner but was holding onto it until then as proof of his bizarre injury.

Tweed Heads forward Austin lost several teeth in the incident and also broke his jaw.

In 2004, Widnes hooker Shane Millard also had an opponent's tooth removed from his head.

Two years earlier, Wigan's Jamie Ainscough's arm became so badly infected there were fears it would be amputated before the source - an imbedded tooth - was discovered.

Must have one of a hard head!!!

Anyone into this?

Think its brilliant that it has introduced a lot of people to reading, and the hype surrounding the release of the new book is mounting, its costing over 10 million to guard the book prior to its release.

never actually read the books but they are all in the house, any devotees out there counting down the days until its release?

 contentious Orange Order parade in the Whiterock area of west Belfast has passed off without major incident.
A limited parade of up to 50 people was allowed onto the mainly nationalist Springfield Road via Workman Avenue.

However, community marshals who were not allowed along that route staged a protest, claiming the move breached the Parades Commission determination.

They also accused police of "bowing to republican pressure". Most of the march had to pass through a factory site.

In a statement, the police said their actions were based on clarification from the Parades Commission on the definition of a marshal and "specifically who this referred to".

When the security gate was opened for those allowed to go through, the local Whiterock lodge were met with the cheers from supporters and the jeers of nationalist protestors.


Police told community marshals they had taken advice
However, it was a far cry from 2005's parade, when police officers were attacked with petrol and blast bombs, as well as live rounds during trouble.

The cost of policing that Whiterock parade and subsequent rioting in a number of loyalist areas was estimated at £3m by the PSNI.

Saturday's march was the second year in a row that it had passed off peacefully, and Chief Superintendent Gary White praised "the work carried out on all sides" to ensure this.

The ruling on Saturday's march has been made by the Parades Commission, a government-appointed body set up in 1997 to make decisions on whether controversial parades should be restricted.


thats one down many more to go, I do hope that this season goes as peacefull as last year

I know that there are a few users of this on here, can anyone still get this as I have tried to get the tennis and get strange messages about protocal and all that stuff, ant ideas?

 

[His multimillion dollar calculations for damages included the 1,400 hours he says he spent preparing the case.]

Feck me, the American culture of sueing for anything has got even crazier

US man loses $54m trousers claim

Mr Pearson said his rights had been violated by the dry-cleaner's 
A US judge has lost a $54m (£27m) claim against a South Korean dry-cleaning firm which lost a pair of his trousers.
Roy Pearson, a judge of administrative law, claimed that Custom Cleaners had violated the Consumer Protection Act.

By refusing to pay him $1,000 (£500) after losing his trousers, they failed to honour a pledge to provide "Satisfaction Guaranteed", he argued.

But a Washington judge dismissed the case, which drew international attention, awarding the cleaners costs.

Legal groups have said the case, which has dragged on for two years and involved thousands of hours of legal investigative work, has damaged the image of the US judicial system.

'American nightmare'

The National Labor Relations Board has called for Mr Pearson to be debarred so that he can no longer serve as a judge.

His case began in 2005 when Mr Pearson took several suits to his local dry-cleaner's in Washington to have some alterations made.

When he returned two days later, a pair of trousers was missing.

The South Korean family running the dry-cleaner's, the Chungs, said they found the missing trousers a few days later and tried to return them but Mr Pearson insisted they were not his.

His multimillion dollar calculations for damages included the 1,400 hours he says he spent preparing the case.

According to the Washington Post, he also added the cost of hiring a car every weekend to enable him to drive to an alternative dry-cleaner's for the next 10 years.
The Chungs' lawyer, Chris Manning, said that the protracted case had transformed the family's American dream into "the American nightmare", according to the AP.

He said the family, who own three dry-cleaner's in the Washington area, were considering returning to South Korea.

Former Northern Ireland and Wolves forward Derek Dougan has died, aged 69.
Nicknamed the Doog, he will be remembered as one the great characters of the game, as well as being a very effective centre-forward.

Dougan scored over 120 goals for Wolverhampton Wanderers and was in their victorious 1974 League Cup side.

He won 43 international caps and before joining Wolves played for Portsmouth, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa, Peterborough United and Leicester City.

Dougan was also an outspoken chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association.

Born in Belfast in January 1938, he played for Irish League club Distillery before joining Portsmouth.


Derek Dougan played in the 1974 League Cup final at Wembley

He remained at Fratton Park until March 1959 when he transferred to Blackburn Rovers for £15,000.

He spent two-and-a-half years at Ewood Park before signing for Aston Villa in July 1961. Two years later Dougan was off again, this time to Peterborough United.

In the summer of 1966, he switched to another club, Leicester City, before securing his place with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1967.

In just over eight seasons at the Molineux, Derek made 320 first team appearances for Wolves netting over 120 goals.

He helped the club regain get back to the First Division status in 1967 and played when they beat Manchester City in the 1974 League Cup final.

Dougan made his Northern Ireland debut against Czechoslovakia during the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and his latest international appearance was in 1973.

During his time with Northern Ireland, he struck up a partnership with George Best.

In December 2005, Dougan joined other former Northern Ireland team-mates in carrying the coffin at Best's funeral.

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I live on the Ormeau road and all the children from the local primary school came home with a note

The note stated that a man in a car tried to entice a 10 year old into a car on the way to school, I think all the schools in the vacinity have been warned. I know there are a few on this board from around here so just to let you all know.

do the Quiz to see if you ar intolerant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/stateofminds/test_take.shtml

You scored between 25 and 45. Your attitudes can therefore be described as "intolerant". In comparison to the rest of Northern Ireland this places you among that quarter of the population with the most negative attitude

Police have smashed a global child abuse network which was co-ordinated through a UK-based internet site.
Global agencies, led by UK investigators, examined more than 700 suspects, including 200 in the UK.

The ring was run by Timothy Cox, 28, of Buxhall, Suffolk, who admitted nine offences and has been handed a sentence which could mean he dies in jail.

A judge at Ipswich Crown Court told Cox: "You are obsessed with images of children being sexually abused."

Chatroom infiltration

Cox ran a website called "Kids the Light of Our Lives" which let users exchange abuse images, the court heard.

Judge Peter Thompson told Cox: "These are shocking images which involve very young children - in the worst cases being subjected to sadistic, painful abuse which you, for some distorted reason, appear to take enjoyment from."

  Anybody who thinks they can carry out such horrific activities undetected is in for a rude awakening

Jim Gamble
CEOP

More than 75,000 indecent and explicit images were found on Cox's computer and there was evidence that he had supplied more than 11,000 images to other site users.

Cox pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing indecent images of children at an earlier hearing and was handed an indeterminate sentence.

Cox posed "significant risks", the judge said, and had to be imprisoned for "for public protection".

Under the terms of his sentence, he must satisfy the authorities that he is fit for release and does not pose any threat to the community before he can ever be set free.

Ian Robertson, of the UK-based Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre (CEOP), told BBC News 24 that the ages of the children whose images were exchanged on the site ranged from babies to teenagers.

After he was arrested in September 2006, undercover officers spent 10 days infiltrating the chatroom, assuming his identity to collect evidence about other users.

When Cox was arrested, undercover officers placed a message online saying he had gone for his tea and would be back in half an hour to avoid raising suspicions.

As many as 70 online paedophiles were waiting to download images of abuse.

Investigators from the Australian Federal Police, the US Department of Homeland Security and Toronto Police took part in the online surveillance operation.

In total, 31 children were saved as a result of the investigation, CEOP said.

Cox lived with his parents, sister and 26-year-old girlfriend in a large farmhouse and worked at the family's micro-brewery. The website was operated from his bedroom.

CEOP said Cox hosted the website using the pseudonym "Son of God" - a reference to "G.O.D", the online identity of the owner of another paedophile site shut down by police last year.

The court heard Cox spotted a "gap in the market" after the other site was closed.

Simon Spence, prosecuting, told the court: "For what must have been hours at a time he was online either viewing these images of children, arranging the chat room or communicating with other paedophiles."

'Horrific activities'


Canadian police passed intelligence about the site to UK investigators

Jim Gamble of CEOP said his capture "sends a powerful warning to those using the internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of children".

He added: "From the apparent 'safety' of his home, Cox spent hours each day planning, promoting and encouraging the abuse and exploitation of children.

"In doing so he provided a service to hundreds of like-minded individuals, enabling those with a sexual interest in children to share indecent images and discuss further plans for abuse.

"Anybody who thinks they can carry out such horrific activities undetected is in for a rude awakening."

Cox had been identified after intelligence connecting the site to the UK was passed to CEOP by Canadian investigators.

Detective Constable Stefan Jochan said: "He doesn't fit any kind of traditional image of paedophile. He had a veneer of respectability."

The investigation uncovered another member of the same ring, Gordon Mackintosh from Hertfordshire, who attempted to keep the website going after Cox was arrested.

Mackintosh, 33, used the names "silentblackheart" and "lust4skoolgurls". More than 5,000 images were found on his computer as well as 392 indecent movie files.

He pleaded guilty to 27 charges of making, possessing and distributing the material and is due to be sentenced on June 29.



Everyone of these sick bastards should be made to die a slow and painful death, a prison sentence is too good, feck it shoot the fecking lot of them

Right, people have been accused for ages of having moe than one account, only the Mods may know the truth via IP addresses, so go on, vote correctly and we will all see the results

Did anyone see thepictures od GWB's walk about in Albania? one minute he was wearing a watch and shaking hands, and the next, no watch, some ballox has taken it off his wrist as if by magic, class

The home of Bernard 'Barney' Hughes, philantropist and creator of the famous Belfast bap, is to be marked by a blue plaque.


Mr Hughes, a self-made businessman, is remembered in his adopted city as an enlightened employer and benefactor of the poor.

Now his former home at College Square North in the city centre is to be marked with a blue plaque by the Ulster History Circle.

Barney Hughes arrived in Belfast from County Armagh in 1826, aged 18, to begin working as a labourer.

Proving to be a shrewd businessman, he was, by the 1870s, the owner of the largest bakery and milling concern in Ireland.

During the famine years in the 1840s he created a standardised bread bap which he sold at a reasonable price.

The small loaf, which survives today under the name of ''the Belfast bap," became so popular that it was, and remains the subject of a children's street song.

Philanthropist

Mr Hughes was the city's first Catholic municipal representative and was renowned for his good works.

A prominent philanthropist, he donated the land on which St Peter's Cathedral was built.

He also donated money towards the erection of a statue of the fiery orator, Dr Henry Cooke.

The statue, known colloquially as the 'Black Man, still stands in front of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution in Wellington Place.

A stained-glass triple window in St Peter's was dedicated to Barney Hughes's first wife.

The window and a side altar in the cathedral are also dedicated to one of his daughters.

Barney Hughes is remembered in Belfast as a courageous opponent of sectarianism, an industrial reformer and a man who sought justice and equality for all citizens.

The little loaf he created remains a top seller.

Lisa McGinney, assistant manager of Belfast's Windsor Bakery, said: "The bap was as popular now as it had ever been.

"We sell hundreds every day, to a mix of generations, they come in and buy them or get them split and filled with chicken and salad."



well, what do you do with yours?

cup of strong, stewed tea, three or four bits, buttered and strewberry jam, yummy

  Wheres the Wellies?

web-based computer game inspired by the activities of Northern Ireland's paramilitary groups has outraged victims organisations.
The Hooded Gunman, a virtual game where players register as republicans or loyalists, is attracting thousands of hits a day from as far afield as Australia and America.

The website says it is the only online game about NI Troubles

The aim of the game is to collect as much money as possible by creating a paramilitary empire built on drug dealing, prostitution, counterfeiting and killing your enemies.

Players also have to avoid police officers who can offer them bonuses for becoming informers.

The game's introduction states: "We created this game to make people laugh and have fun and hopefully unite in our differences in our online community, after all, in Northern Ireland we have such beautiful cultural diversities."

However, Alan McBride who lost his wife and father-in-law in an IRA bomb in 1993 is furious.

"It does attempt to glorify it (violence) in some senses and it is absolutely appalling," he said.

"Given all the good things that have happened recently in Northern Ireland, and we were moving away from that, I think this game is just silly."


Its creator says it does not glorify paramilitaries

The game offers players the chance to "get rid of all your frustrations in this online game about Northern Ireland terrorism".

One recent winner bagged £1,000 in the game and there is also the opportunity to buy accessories, such as hoodies, beanies, keyrings or mugs.

Ulster Unionist Derek Hussey said it was "tasteless and insensitive".

"There is nothing glamorous or playful about paramilitarism in Northern Ireland," he said.

"At a time when many victims are coming to terms with the new dispensation and politicians are trying to draw a line under the past, this type of nonsense does not help."

But the game's creator, Newtownabbey-born Warren Dowey, said the intention was to bring about awareness of the plight of people in Northern Ireland, but never to cause offence.

'Lost lives'

"I was developing a game for a company in France and during my research, I realised there were loads of games about the Mafia but none about the Troubles," he said.

"I don't want to take away from the fact that many people lost their lives to violence but I just wanted to highlight what I felt was the ridiculousness of it.


"The game does not glorify the paramilitaries by any sense, in fact it portrays them as drug dealers, and peddlers of alcohol and prostitution.

"There are no civilians within the game."

He said a recent study into terror victims pointed out that re-living their plight was very effective in combating post traumatic stress.

But Mr McBride, who works at the Wave trauma centre, said: "I actually work with victims... helping victims to talk about their experiences, but I can't see at all how this game can attempt to do that in any way.

"I think it is much more therapeutic for people to be involved in story-telling projects or other ways of actually dealing with the past."


Anyone played this, or even heard of it before?

from the BBC

A Brazilian brewery has been ordered to pay $49,000 (£24,570) to an alcoholic beer taster who claims the company failed to prevent his condition.
The man, who has not been named, said the company, Ambev, did not provide him with adequate health care to stop him from developing alcoholism.

He said that for more than a decade he drank around one and a half litres of beer each day.

But Ambev says that the employee was an alcoholic before he took the job.

The employee says he drank between 16 and 25 small glasses of beer during each eight hour shift at the company, and was also given a bottle of beer at the end of each shift.

An initial ruling favoured Ambev, which claimed the man was already an alcoholic.

But Judge Jose Felipe Ledur said the company was still negligent because an alcoholic should have never been employed as a beer taster.

He added that the man's alcohol dependency had worsened in recent years, and that he felt like drinking the same amount on holiday as he drank at work.

The company still has the right to appeal against the ruling, and decisions are often overturned in Brazilian courts.

love the bit that the company said he was an alcoholic before he took the job, not a type to trust to be a taster

Here are 12 of the finest (unintentional) double-entendres ever aired on British TV and radio
1. Pat Glenn, weightlifting commentator - "And this is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing! "

2. New Zealand Rugby Commentator - "Andrew Mehrtens loves it when Daryl Gibson comes inside of him."

3. Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator - "This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother. "

4. Harry Carpenter at the Oxford-Cambridge boat race 1977 - " Ah, isn't that nice. The wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew. "

5. US PGA Commentator - "One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them ..... Oh my god!! What have I just said?? "

6. Carenza Lewis about finding food in the Middle Ages on 'Time Team Live' said: "You'd eat beaver if you could get it."

7. A female news anchor who, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn't, turned to the weatherman and asked, " So Bob, where's that eight inches you promised me last night? " Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too, because they were laughing so hard!

8. Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: "Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday."

9. Clair Frisby talking about a jumbo hot dog on Look North said: "There's nothing like a big hot sausage inside you on a cold night like this."

10 Mike Hallett discussing missed snooker shots on Sky Sports: "Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis's misses every chance he gets."

11. Michael Buerk on watching Phillipa Forrester cuddle up to a male astronomer for warmth during BBC1's UK eclipse coverage remarked: "They seem cold out there, they're rubbing each other and he's only come in his shorts."

12. Ken Brown commentating on golfer Nick Faldo and his caddie Fanny Sunneson lining-up shots at the Scottish Open: "Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself."



and no mention of

The batsman Holding, the bowlers Willie

[Paul Smye-Rumsby, who lives in Dover, said: "It was about 08.15 when suddenly the bed shook violently. "I thought my wife had got cramp or something but then I saw the curtains were moving and the whole house was shaking. It lasted about 1.5 seconds.]

 

The tremor has registered a magnitude of 4.7
An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 4.3 has shaken parts of Kent, damaging buildings and disrupting electricity supplies.
Emergency services have received reports of structural damage such as cracked walls and fallen chimneys.

The earthquake was felt as far afield as Essex, East Sussex and Suffolk.

The British Geological Survey said the tremor, which occurred at 0818 BST, was the largest British earthquake since one in Dudley, West Midlands, in 2002.

  All our street shook...the seagulls went crazy

Karol Steele


Witnesses' accounts 

EDF Energy said it had managed to restore electricity to most of the several thousand homes left without power in the Folkestone and Dover area.

Scottish and Southern Energy, which supplies gas to the area, said it was investigating 300 "possible gas escapes".

"Obviously there is a smell about and people have been reporting it and we have to attend every single report," a spokesman.

"But at the moment we are not sure if it is natural gas brought up by the earthquake, which can happen, or leaks from pipes."

Significant tremor

David Booth of the British Geological Survey said the tremor, which lasted a few seconds, was of a sizeable magnitude.

"It's certainly the largest in the UK since an earthquake in Dudley in the West Midlands in 2002 and that also caused damage. So this is a very significant tremor."

Dr Brian Baptie, also of the British Geological Survey, told BBC News 24 that the epicentre was seven miles (12km) south of Dover, out in the English Channel.

 

Randy Baldwin from the US Geological Survey, which monitors earthquakes, said the tremor had a preliminary magnitude of 4.7.

Kent Fire and Rescue Service said it had received more than a 100 emergency calls and was having to deal with "several incidents".

Most of these were reports of structural damage, but a fire engine had also been sent to Folkestone to investigate a "smell of gas".

A Eurostar spokesman said everything was running normally in the Channel Tunnel.

Violent shaking

Sharon Hayles, from Stanford near the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone, said her house slid from side to side for about 10 to 15 seconds.

Another Folkestone man told BBC Five Live Breakfast that his whole house "shook quite violently".

Eyewitness Lorraine Muir said: "We've been evacuated by the Sally Army; we've got no gas or electricity."

Paul Smye-Rumsby, who lives in Dover, said: "It was about 08.15 when suddenly the bed shook violently.

"I thought my wife had got cramp or something but then I saw the curtains were moving and the whole house was shaking. It lasted about 1.5 seconds.
"All the power is off and we have got the portable radio on. People are standing outside talking to each other about it."



cramp my arse

[The man has since been released from hospital.]

what are you lot at down there


Morgue staff find life in patient 

Morgue staff realised the man was alive
A hospital in the Republic of Ireland has set up an inquiry to investigate how a man pronounced dead was later found to be alive by morgue staff.
The disabled patient, in his 30s, was being treated in Dublin's Mater Hospital on Easter Sunday when ward staff mistakenly certified his death.

By the time the error was spotted his family had already been informed and were grieving for their loss.

The man has since been released from hospital.

A spokesman for the Mater said management have set up an inquiry.


I would like to think so.

Its a bit late but did anyone besidse me watch any of it?

with the date of the ban fast approaching how do people feel about this? will it be implemented correctly? what are different bars/clubs doing to embrace this? my local will be allowing smokers into the keg store out the back, hope it pisses down on them. I cant wait for it to start, no more smelly clothes and hair, wonder what the bar will smell like after a few weeks without the stentch of smoke?