Author: Leigh Banks

By ANDREW JOHN TEAGUE This Easter weekend brought Sadness and heartbreak. Three lives lost, one father and two mothers. These, of course, are the only ones we know of … but the devastating  affects resonate amongst family, friends and sadly their children. During Easter my Facebook memories appeared, highlighting suicide. People always ask for the… Continue reading Court in a family trap … why should parents die fighting to see their children?

Grave robbing has never gone away – there is still a lucrative and macabre market for stolen headstones and markers. Graveyards in the UK are regularly plundered by thieves who steal tombstones‚ vases‚ and sculptures and sell them as garden ornaments. And in some parts of the world undertakers place orders for stones on the… Continue reading Moston’s tombstone blues … plea to reunite family with their ‘stolen’ statue of memory

Greg Abbott has banned publicly-funded agencies from forcing people to provide proof of a Covid-19 vaccine if they need their services. In other words Abbott has gone a long way down the line to ban the ubiquitous Covid passport. He did this as the so-called passports are being developed across the world as a method… Continue reading Do covid passports matter when US and UK people are among ‘most-watched’ countries in the world?

In 1964, Bob Dylan’s Another Side was released much to the discomfort of people who had already claimed the youngsinger as their new god of traditional folk. Little did they know how he was about to really rock their their staid beardy banjo-ey world twelve months later. They just stuck their fingers in their ears… Continue reading Another side of Bob’s rough and rowdy ways … how 50 year old photo told the right tale

The Preservation Society and the Standard Gazette have agreed to join forces when the news demands it and expose corrupt politicians, cheating fat cats and lying conmen … we will also look at the news BEHIND the news! We start with the story of the awful killing of Reggae superstar Lucky Dube … CLICK BELOW… Continue reading Reggae source … Let the sheriff shoot himself. We’re after the real bad guys!

By Ehi E Ekhator, editor at The Standard Gazette, and Leigh G Banks… Thokozani Dube was 21-year-old when his dad, legendary reggae singer Lucky Dube, was murdered for his new car in Johannesburg. Lucky had dropped-off Thokozani and his sister Nkulee at their uncle’s house in the poor suburb of Rosettenville where ANC president Oliver Tambo, Archbishop… Continue reading Murderers thought Reggae star was Nigerian, so they shot him for his limo

Almost two decades ago the British media was awash with anti-migrant stories because Romanians, Bulgarians, Slovaks and Poles were using their European freedom to build new lives in the UK. Or to send money back to their families in their poverty-ridden homelands. And the Brits, with their under-the-radar alternative lives in Spain, Portugal and France,… Continue reading I PITY THE POOR IMMIGRANT…

Well, hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and anybody else who’s reading and listening (yes you can do both on here!) … welcome to Leigh’s New World. It may be a world of chaos and disorder but it is also a world of campaigns and fights, a world of news and shining lights in… Continue reading Goodbye cruel world … welcome to the Self Preservation Society

PETER DAVIES, from NAAP and D.A.D.s, writes … beware of tricksters, blustering obfuscation and egos like bloated cadavers… Recently, it has been necessary to take time out from swimming in the noxious cesspool of the ‘UK PA’ world. I made the decision for me to focus on things close to home and prioritise them over… Continue reading OUT OF THE SHADOWS …

Reading Between The Lines is a new section where readers can share memories of their hometowns… here Dorothy Banks shares a poem about Moston, a small suburb of Manchester. Dorothy says: “I was born in Bute Street and lived in Moston for the rest of a very long life.   Moston and Manchester are in my… Continue reading Reading between the lines