Police and family have been barred from opening Brady’s suitcase of secrets for decades … now new law gives them the key

Alan Bennett says a new Parliamentary Bill will help him finally find the body of his brother, murdered by monsters Ian Brady and Myra Hindley more than 60 years ago.

Brady, the madman who harvested and murdered children with his evil girlfriend Hindley, played a heart-breaking game of cat-and-mouse with the families of their victims, taunting and tantalising them from behind bars.

None more so than Alan Bennett, the brother Keith who was spirited away, abused, murdered and buried in a howling make-shift grave on the Moors above Manchester.

Last year Alan met with the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to discuss the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Part of it is designed to force people and organisations to reveal all relevant information to police.

He and many others have been battling for years to get Liverpool solicitor Robin Makin to open two briefcases entrusted to him by Moors murderer Ian Brady just before he died.

It is possible the briefcases, kept securely in storage, could contain clues to where Brady and his Hindley buried the body of Keith, who was 12 when he was snatched by the pair in Ashton-u-Lyne.

Alan said: “The law to allow police access to possible withheld information that may help in cases such Keith’s has passed through Parliament and will receive Royal assent. The clauses on human remains were agreed exactly as they were drafted.

”Great news for our family and for other families in the same horrendous, heart breaking and ridiculous position we found ourselves in.

“We now have real hope that the police will be able to overcome the obstacles to gaining access to information that had been placed in their way for far too long by certain uncaring, heartless, cold, cruel, insensitive and soulless people.

Thank you all for your support and care during this long battle for justice.

“Of course it is our never ending hope that something may be found that could give us the final piece of information needed to bring Keith home but it will also be a legacy from Keith that others in a situation such as our family will find some answers as well.”

However, responding to the passing of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s CEO, said: “This is dark day for civil liberties in the UK. This deeply-authoritarian Bill places profound and significant restrictions on the basic right to peacefully protest and will have a severely detrimental impact on the ability of ordinary people to make their concerns heard.”

The truth about what Brady and Hindley horrify did way back in the Sixties still horrifies the world.

And still today the families of victims are haunted by the secrets the evil pair of child killers have kept and the twisted games played from beyond the grave.

Not least of course is the continuing search for Keith Bennett’s body on the bleak moors above Manchester.

Surely, this must be Brady and Hindley’s most prolonged and agonising legacy?

But we must not forget the agonies of the family of Pauline Reade who was 16 when she disappeared on her way to a disco.

Think of it, she disappeared on July 12, 1963. And only now her family might be finding some kind of peace.

Let’s be honest, the true horror of having parts of your daughter’s body found in a dusty storage room at a university more than half a century after her murder is unimaginable.

Alan Bennett had this to say about Pauline. In so many ways it is a message of positivity.

Alan wrote: “On this day ( July 1st ) in 1987 the body of Pauline Reade was discovered and brought off Saddleworth Moor, 24 years after Pauline had been murdered and buried on the moor by Brady and Hindley.

“After being returned to her family Pauline’s mum, Joan, told us that ‘It was like a big dark cloud had been lifted off my shoulders.’ Joan found some small peace of mind eventually and the change in her life after Pauline was found was so very good to see.

“I met Pauline’s immediate family and I can honestly say that Pauline’s mum, Joan, who I met and got hugs from on quite a few occasions, was one of the nicest, gentle and sincere people I have ever met.”

The brother of ‘lost boy’ Keith Bennett had posed the question – how can police be denied access to secret documents about a murder case?

Alan Bennett said: “How can any information be seen as anything other than essential to an investigation?”

It is possible the briefcases, kept securely in storage, could contain clues to where Brady and his monstrous lover Myra Hindley buried the body of Keith, who was 12 when he was snatched by the pair in Ashton-u-Lyne,

Backing the move, Alan said: “I am really confident that the part of the Bill that is of specific interest to me – and will be to other victims and their families in the future – regarding the case of Keith will not be challenged.”

Relatives have demanded that the cases should be opened and access to the hidden papers given.

Police say they want access to the Samsonite briefcases which Brady kept locked in the bedroom at high security hospital Ashworth Prison in Maghull.

He spent most of his life locked up.

Solicitor Mr Makin rarely comments on the cases.

But a district judge sitting at Manchester Magistrates’ Court had refused a police appeal to access the cases because Brady and Hindley are dead so there is no chance of a prosecution.

I have an update after contacting the Home Office again today for answers as to what happens next after the Police, Crime, Sentencing And Courts Bill was passed after the second reading yesterday.

Alan said: “The Bill will move on for more detailed scrutiny and MP’s will be able to propose amendments and some may be voted on in later debates.

“It is hoped the Bill will receive Royal Assent by the end of the year.

“I have to admit that the timescale is longer than I expected/hoped for but at least things are in motion and moving in the right direction after years of arguing for justice for victims and families as opposed to the perpetrators and their representatives having more rights than the victims and families.”

Alan said: “Keith’s story will be known to many, but what may not be known is the struggle which our family has gone through to try and seek closure.

“I have fought long and hard on behalf of my brother to bring about the necessary changes and to ensure his case is not forgotten.

“I want to ensure a positive legacy for Keith, so I was pleased to meet with the Home Secretary and to hear about the work being done to support my endeavours.”

Priti Patel said: “I can only imagine the years of pain and turmoil that the Bennett family have faced following Keith’s tragic murder – no family should have to suffer the heartache of not knowing where their loved ones are buried.

“I am determined to give police the powers they need to access all available evidence and hopefully bring some closure to families in cases like these.”

We should never forget these names, names forever linked with true horror:

Pauline Reade

John Kilbride

Keith Bennett

Lesley Ann Downey

Edward Evans

#murdermostfoul #hindleyandbrady #myraian #saddleworthmoor #lostboy #keithbennett #moorsmurders #pritipatel #Pauline Reade #John Kilbride #Keith Bennett #Lesley Ann Downey #Edward Evans #ianbrady #myrahindley #moorsmurders #saddleworth

Bob loves Elvis, no doubt.

After all Elvis was the God of rock n roll, beautiful, handsome, sensual, wild, wiggly, outrageous and with a voice to sell your soul for.

And Bob was at the crossroads.

It was 1959 and Bob was in Fargo and was banging out ivory-clad bullets of rock for the Poor Boys and Bobby Vee and the Shadows. It didn’t last for long though … he was dumped by both bands.

The major problem was he’d sold himself to them as Elston Gunn, the imaginary owner of a state-of-the-art electric Wurlitzer-style keyboard.

Of course he wasn’t Elston and he’d never had a travelling Wurlitzer..

In an article in The Forum a decade ago, Bobby Vee’s brother, Bill, said: “We bought him a shirt that matched ours. When we picked him up, we were a little surprised he didn’t have a little electric piano with him. So, when we got to the gig, there was an old crusty piano there, and he played that.”

And, according to Bill, he wasn’t very good.

So, there Elston stood. Alone in Fargo, dumped by a hero for telling a lie.

It could have worked out so differently – so badly – for him and the rest of the world.

He could just have kicked up the dust outside this North Dakota town and left a scrawl at the crossroads bemoaning ‘Whatever happened to the Teenage Dream?’

But he still had Elvis.

And Woody too.

But Woody was old and tired and ill, a literary genius who could set an image on fire with two words, a political singer with power for the people. Elvis, on the other hand, was young and vital … and did Bob know it at the time? But he had the young and old elements for his alchemy right there and then at the crossroads … young and old which would keep him forever vital and youthful. And so the magic was mixed at the Fargo crossroads and Bob set off down the road armed only with his spell.

Elvis was one of Dylan’s key influences, after ‘Hound Dog’ there was no looking back. Bob said: “When I first heard Elvis Presley’s voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.”

But did the kid with an alias who got fobbed off in Fargo ultimately become greater than Elvis could ever be?

From Fargo Dylan went down to Dinkytown, second-hand clothes, Second-hand Roses, battered books, coffeehouses and cheap, cheap bars.

There bob met a man named Gray and moved in to his drugstore.

Bob wrote in his biog; “There were great catch-phrases and driving pulse rhythms (in rock), but the songs weren’t serious or didn’t reflect life in a realistic way. I knew that when I got into folk music, it was more of a serious type of thing. The songs are filled with more despair, more sadness, more triumph, more faith in the supernatural, and much deeper feelings.”

It was then that Bob decided to go gaunt and finger-pointing and became a hero of the bearded ones who cupped their ears and called it a conch-ience.

But rock n roll had been around since the 1950s, heavy beats, black rhythms, white country, twelve-bars and fat old-lady basses and Animal drums.

When The King passed away dramatically in 1977, it was said the death hit Dylan harder than most and was unable to speak for a week.

Not only did Bob become a star but Elvis recorded Dylan’s ‘Tomorrow Is A Long Time’.

But for some reason Bob snubbed Elvis. There were talks of a collaboration in 1972 when Elvis invited Bob and George Harrison in the studio. Inexplicably Bob and George didn’t bother turning up!

He was in Minnesota with his children and their art teacher, Faridi McFree, and he wrote: “I went over my whole life. I went over my whole childhood. I didn’t talk to anyone for a week after Elvis died. If it wasn’t for Elvis and Hank Williams, I couldn’t be doing what I do today.”

Elvis, Woody, Hank, Tom … all of them are gone now, but Bob is still on that road. And as you watch his eccentric, idiosyncratic, brilliant shows, every so often you see the flash of a memory, Bob will craft moments in his performances and for a split second you catch a glimpse of his heroes.

Like the Indians danced in the dark with Jim Morrison, our Bob dad-dances for each and every one of us along with his heroes.

#ritamay #bobdylan #elvis #dinkytown #amannamedgray #wenttoseethegypsy #gerrylee

Lagos, the city of mysteries. Ghosts of slaves in the marketplace – visions of a saint next to the golden church.
When I arrived, one of the mysteries to me was why its pronounced with a ssshhh … Lago-ssshhh.
Well, after a few days here, I can tell you: Somebody in a bar described Lagos as the Algarve’s land of lushness. And they were right. If you want to be a lush, I can’t think of a better place.
A bar at every corner of every ancient cobbled street.
You can start with a gentle Maderia at a harbour bar as soon as the first gull wafts across the face of the sun. Or, you could sip champagne on a million-pound yacht in the marina and watch this beautiful city wake up.
Old fishermen fix nets on the harbour – young girls in Porsches head for the office.
By lunch time you say involuntarily: “I love Lago-ssshhh.”
And I do love it and all its mysteries.
The harbour and the bay are beautiful. Yet it has an ancient shame, the first slave market in Europe. But it hasn‘t been turned into a museum. The streets have remained narrow and if a taxi stops at a bar or restaurant in these cobbled back streets, the city comes to a standstill.
And nobody seems to mind.
You see, in this part of the world men spend hours up to their waists in the rivers catching shellfish – or showing their backs to the sun as they tend their bees.
That’s story of this part of Portugal, the erosion of time, not the decimation of it.
You don’t have to go far, just to the village of Burgau with its rocky outcrop, or Sagres with its white stone fort and its cliffs or the little fishing village of Praia da Luz – or to Salema with its Roman ruins.
And in the evening, as the sun goes down there are a hundred places to eat. Try No Patio, for instance.
Well, there’s another mystery. It’s name, No Patio.
The Scandinavian owners Bjarne and Jitte introduced me to Levellers, port and brandy and cinnamon. The night cooled the patio. Lanterns flickered in the gentle breeze.
We got there about nine and by one Bjarne was juggling ashtrays and telling bad Scandinavian jokes. We had another Leveller on the house.
The sky was so clear I swear you could see clear through infinity and the city was so quiet all you could hear was the rush of the sea.
So we made that soft ssshhh-ooo shuffle all the way back to our hotel.

#lagos #portugal #travel #holidays #europe

The 54-year-old tennis star was declared bankrupt in 2017, owing creditors almost £50m, over an unpaid loan of more than £3m on his estate in Mallorca, Spain.

Now he has been found guilty of transferring hundreds of thousands from his business account and failing to declare a property in his hometown of Leimen in Germany.

Becker was also convicted of hiding an €825,000 (almost £700,000) bank loan and 75,000 shares in a tech firm.

Regular Society contributor Andrew Brel, an LA writer and musician, argues that Becker got caught in a judicial system designed to destroy lives…

ANDREW WRITES: The jailing of Boris Becker shows Britain’s judiciary remains irretrievably flawed. Nothing new there.

The standard of judges in the courts service remains appalling.

Making up a list of 100 most disgusting judgments that are not serving the spirit of fairness in law while abusing basic human rights would take anyone familiar with the British Court service mere moments.

Disgusting rights abusing judgments by entitled idiots remain the norm, not the exception. Protecting the establishments conservative interests at any cost.

The reason, in case you are unfamiliar with the British judiciary, is an inherently corrupt establishment process for grooming, recruiting, retaining and rewarding judges. “Laws made for and by the rich.”

No jury of peers to take a view here. Just judges drawn from a very specific social background. Entitled and empowered to manifest their specific prejudices without fear of consequences.

Judges who are commonly lawyers with provocatively challenged developmental qualities, recruited to a position providing them with enormous power to commit any manner of human rights abuse in the name of a law that is, well, rotten now as it was when this same judiciary ruled the slave trade was good for Britain-first, and carried on reinforcing that ruling for hundreds of years.

The judge who ruled on Julian Assange? Jailing someone so cruelly for so long for a web page?

The judge who ruled Johnny Depp is a wife beater from his experience as a British toff?

The judge who ruled the Chinese should be bombed for refusing to buy our profit generating opium?

And today’s great Judgment from another celebrated member of the Inner Temple, Deborah Taylor who ruled Boris Becker should spend two and a half years in jail from the same legal system that sent Sir Jimmy Savile to jail for how long?

British law, as unjust today as it was when the first Inner Temple judge ruled the slave trade was all good.

The process for appointing Judges, many of whom I have found to be nasty narcissists serving no higher purpose than their own vanity, must be changed or British law will remain the archaic relic of its historical reliance on an entitled goon past to do what they will in the name of British Justice.

If it was up to me, Deborah Taylor would face two and a half years in jail for this abuse of office. How exactly does jailing a Wimbledon Champion whose crime appears to be being born without a high IQ, benefit the British tax payer or appropriately measure against similar terms for other prison worthy offences.

Surely Johnson and friends offences warrant far longer in jail if measured by the same tariff metric.

If the judiciary represents the will of the people, as it should, then how many British people not from entrenched conservative grooming support this individuals judgment made through the lens of her British law entitlement that comes with qualified immunity, as representing the popular version of justice.

She jails him because she is offended by his inadequate remorse and humility?

“There can be no harmony in a lawless society” is widely agreed by British establishment.

Rotten law in the name of law is lawlessness.

The authors of disharmony in Britain’s relationship with human rights have a new star today.

#boris #becker #bankrupt #jail #savile #assange #courts #uk

Eric Lastick is a strange man. He looks lived in, like an old rooming house knocked out and loaded from the inside.

He’s spent his life inside this badly-built walk-on-stilts high-rise of rooms called things like Hope, Aspiration, Dream…

… and still, today, he stares from his rain-melting ancient windows into glistening streets and memories.

Eric Lastick was born in Zurich but never became a gnome… instead he went looking for a place to stay in Pennsylvania, a city built on handmade pretzels, whoopie pies and cheesesteaks

Personally, I’ve never been to Pennsylvania. And doubt I ever will, I have more of a New York state of mind, an Elvis poster across the grey-ness of the days, Minnesota moan and an Iron Range resolve.

But Eric is living in Pennsylvania in his rooming-house mind.

And he is writing in there all the time.

It’s as if there comes a knock at the door, the rent man and Eric’s jailer are standing in the rain. an old railway sign in their hand.

Eric drops a poem into a cup…

Here Eric Lastick writes three short pieces on Dylan, analysing the ways of life that made little Bob Zimmerman what he is today.

Thank you for sharing Eric.

A NOD & A WINK OVER TO MR. BOB DYLAN…by a rather natty and half-off his nut old folksier—who falls and trips—-square off his observatory; and oddly in his presumes—picks the exact

Righten tilt go wrong—the harmonica…southern Louisiana marching & bourbon strung guitar; yet in a flagrant style cool…and party night out, like a Zoot suit trombone Charlie…rye and bated a halfcocked and drunkard path, in natty fedora whims…whom falls and trips over a primitive place of the biblical reems of casting out the sinner…and the those of the stone throwers; as Dylan lays down the tracks of the stoned…Rock ‘n’ roll dashers old folk scene lovers. All in the ambush and its ambushers—go all wobbly and get high—and dance at will too the oncoming stones. Watching as they all come in! The smoke and bourbon air is as if a bouncing effect to the nature of a higher star. A higher calling…and just roll with it, say the offenders. The procurers as everyone must get stoned.

NATTY DAY, NUTTY SMILE sits the observer…and overseer wingspan sky. He squawks and squall too —6 there envied a larger-than-life traditional folk festival …grouped in hundreds… thousands more to come. Observer to the Dylan second set—straight out of intermission came ‘’an electric wave!’’ New discovers reach of festers knee deep in an electric shock trove, as old folky wet down and waterlog. Mud on your shoe. Holes in one’s souls! What one does know is out forefather styled Pete Seager sheath a pun an unplug. Harsh head rhythm’s …ringing 0f his own pained brain—like a fire on a broom stick! Nightmare winds of a sudden backdraft, oft the walls and barriers of the antithesis of all music collides in the aftershock of an entire folk movement—while seeing and abruptly hearing their very own breve folk hero turn and sway as the troubadour of this new-fangled, run straight off the ridge in a circus and carnival ride too rock ‘n ‘roll. Dylan’s whimsical organ player equipped with his dancing keys of flighty flaps … and a strange on the rise strolls of presumed electric mayhem. Yet somehow Dylan pulled it off. There really was a fine beauty too it!

‘’FOR THOSE WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE’’ Dylan of seems on that day as if the taking of the turns of ‘’a wrath folk grape’’ A faze of the tunnel winds. Twists of the weathervane—right too a sour’s end in one powerful and dazzling rock session of sorts! There can be know turning back of this ‘’lightening in the bottle ‘Just all the further responds of one’s desires for all the world too see…with a headfirst slide —-right into the times of the swinging 60’s…which melds ‘everyone must get stoned’’ A natty and half off his s nut observer of ‘’the rainy-day lady’’ take a ticket…have she tag #1235.

#bobdylan #livd

Wanna buy this Sputnik? It fell off the back of a spaceship…

As mad bad Putin threatens again to launch a speed-of-lightning nuclear attack on the world, just how do we survive?

Do we take off our internal doors and make a ‘wooden tent’ out of them in our lounge so that we can be with our families for a few weeks, as Maggie Thatcher told us to do in the early Eighties?

Protect and Survive it was called. Believe me, if the UK had been attacked her civil defence plan wouldn’t have protected us and we would not have survived.

Lying under your car for a couple of weeks ‘til the nuclear fall-out halves its life wouldn’t have worked and setting up home in a ditch was just plain daft!

So, the survivalists of this world with their garages full of plastic bottled water and baked beans are saying we should look at escaping to Mars again.

There’s not, of course, a scrap of evidence that it would work. There is however a lot of evidence of scrap up there! It’s like the Harold Steptoe Space Agency …

You can hear Harold’s dulcet tones; “You wanna buy this Sputnik, it fell off the back of a spaceship!”

Isn’t it funny – and so very human of us – that we can’t really afford to turn the red planet into stellar real estate – but we have already turned it in to a scrapyard!

Look at these beautiful evocative pictures of a planet that everybody on earth from the UK to Moscow have coveted. And what do we see?

The wreckage of our space dreams, that’s what!

At least 35,000 pieces of space junk are being tracked by the Department of Deference’s global Space Surveillance Network all the time. Much more debris — too small to be tracked, but large enough to threaten spaceflight – exists in the near-Earth space environment‘

The European Space Agency says Earth is surrounded by more than 3,000 abandoned satellites, 35,000 objects bigger than four inches, and millions of small fragments travelling fast enough to cause damage to spacecraft.

At least one telecoms satellite has been killed off in a crash, and experts fear a series of catastrophic failures as thousands more satellites are launched in the 2020s.

In another incident astronomers Cliff Johnson and Clarae Martinez-Vazquez were working on an international survey at an observatory in Chile when they became aware of something bright obstructing their view. Martinez-Vazquez said a train of 19 Starlink satellites owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company interrupted their research for six minutes.

So, we might as well dump some other technical detritus on Mars too!

The Ingenuity helicopter captured these images, including ones of the gear that helped land the Perseverance rover on Mars.

During its one-year anniversary flight on April 19, the little chopper took photos of the striped parachute used during Perseverance’s landing — often referred to as “7 minutes of terror” because it happens faster than radio signals can reach Earth from Mars — on February 18, 2021. It also spotted the cone-shaped backshell that helped protect the rover and Ingenuity on the trip from Earth to Mars and during its fiery, plunging descent to the Martian surface.

The engineers working on the Mars Sample Return program, an ambitious and multimission process to return Martian samples collected by Perseverance to Earth by the 2030s, asked if Ingenuity could gather these images during its 26th flight.

As an afterthought, we have already managed to dump 400,000 pounds of trash on the Moon.

After the Earth, Mars is the most habitable planet in our solar system due to it’s soil contains water, it isn’t too cold or too hot, there is enough sunlight for solar panels and gravity is 38pc of that on Earth.

So, it makes sense doesn’t it – litter infinity with all this high-tech trash and leave a little pile on the planets too.

Nice pics though!

#space #debris #sputnik #steptoe #mars #earth #nasa #agency #musk #branson #dump #pollution #putin #war #ukraine

Russia is mobilising marine mammals to protect a key Black Sea naval base, according to war experts.

Satellite images are said to show what military experts believe are two dolphin pens floating off the mouth of its key navy base in Sevastopol harbor off Crimea.

Military analyst H.I. Sutton first broke the news in the USNI military outlet after analyzing current and archival satellite imagery which he says show that the pens were put there in February to coincide with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russia keeps some of its most important military hardware at the base and the dolphins are likely trained for operations that would counter enemy divers or retrieve explosives to protect the port.

Russia first used militarized dolphins and whales during the Cold War. In 2019, a giant Beluga whale wearing a curious Russian harness with a camera attached was spotted off the coast of Norway.

The Naval Information Warfare Center says marine mammals can be trained to do everything from attach recovery cords to lost equipment to attacking and even apprehending divers or swimmers who breach security areas. They can also identify and mark locations for underwater mines.

The dolphins at the mouth of the Crimea port are probably used to deter underwater sabotage attempts. Russia kept its dolphin training base in Crimea after its annexation in 2014. The Moscow Times said Russia was training the dolphins to plant explosives on ships.

The U.S. has used highly trained dolphins and sea lions for similar activities since the 1960s.

THE HUMAN STORIES BEHIND PUTIN’S INHUMAN WAR ON UKRAINE

#WHALES #EALIONS #DOLPHINS #UKRAINE #WAR #PUTIN

The Society welcomes the fact that Durham police are to re-examining Sir Keir Starmer‘s beer and pizza ‘party’ at a constituency stop-off while on the campaign trail at the height of Covid fears in the UK.

To the Labour leader, Boris’s own party-time, for which he was fined by the Met Police, has taken up more of his discussion time than looking in what to do about Putin and the Ukraine.

Yet the simple truth is, everything he regularly accuses Mr Johnson of, he did himself in front of a window during the ban on indoor socialising.

The allegations from this ‘little window on his world’ were swiftly dropped. But rules are rules and laws are laws and you’re not supposed to break them – so if Durham police were right to ignore Keir’s beer time, then the Met must be wrong to fine other politicians.

A misinterpretation of the law often becomes a miscarriage – and many people actually feel that what happened to Boris and his band of party people is scandalous and unacceptable. Why is there a 100pc difference in the way things are being treated?

Angela’s bashes … should her legs be such a big deal?

IT’S ALL PANTS AS BORIS LEFT BLUE AND ANGELA SEES RED OVER THIGH-IN-THE-SKY COMMONS BATTLE

Starmer supports simpering Tony as 600,000 say ‘belt him in the garter!’

#starmer #keir #labour #boris #johnson #tory #covid19 #covidparties #police #durham

@AngelaRayner has the moves to be #DeputyLeader leading from the front.

She’s been a true ally to the 🏳️‍🌈 community. #Angela4Deputy #AngelaForDeputy #AngelaRayner pic.twitter.com/iWs3MH0CX5

— Mark Lewis (@charliebach) January 7, 2020

Angela Rayner is quite rightly proud of her legs! What gal wouldn’t be?

But does the stories about the deputy Labour leader and her jokey flirtations with Boris really matter?

We at The Society say they do … and here’s why.

IT’S ALL PANTS AS BORIS LEFT BLUE AND ANGELA SEES RED OVER THIGH-IN-THE-SKY COMMONS BATTLE

Bonehead, the Oasis guitarist from North Manchester, has revealed he has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer.

The musician – real name Paul Arthurs – broke the news on social media, saying he will be “taking a break from playing” while having treatment.

“Just to let you all know I’m going to be taking a break from playing for a while,” he wrote.

“I’ve been diagnosed with tonsil cancer, but the good news is it’s treatable and I’ll be starting a course of treatment soon.”

The 56-year-old, who was born in Prestwich, said: “I’ll keep you posted how it’s going, I’m gutted I’m missing the gigs with Liam and the band. Have the best summer and enjoy the gigs if you’re going, I’ll see you soon xxx.”

He was scheduled to play with Liam Gallagher at a number of concerts this summer.

Gallagher tweeted his support for Bonehead: “Sending BIG love to the 1 n only Bonehead and his family wishing you a speedy recovery we’re all thinking of you rasta you’ll be back on stage before you can say r we doing Colombia LG x.”

Bonehead was a founding member of the Manchester band.

#bonehead #oasis #gallagher #liam #noel #manchester