Author: Leigh Banks

People ask me, “How do you take care of so many plants?” But it has never felt like taking care of them. They take care of me. They breathed life into a space in the wake of death. They were here to breathe for me when I couldn’t breathe.” Blogger and homes expert Cassie Daughtrey’s… Continue reading How the real life of plants can make you blossom…

Alan Bennett, the younger brother of Moors victim Keith Bennett, has revealed that he has had a meeting with the Home Secretary Priti Patel over access to information withheld from police. Alan’s brother would have been 69 years old this year. But he fell foul of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and was never seen… Continue reading Finally, Keith Bennett’s brother Alan can reveal new Bill to change evidence law

Now wasn’t that a lovely photo of Meghan and Harry’s new baby bump, taken in a wistful, wonderful bare-foot-in-the-park setting under a dusty sun… It was an unexpected moment of parental calm in shirt sleeves and sun dress. Oh, and those grass-stained feet too! How beautiful. How normal. A private moment in their intensely private… Continue reading WHY ‘PRIVATE’ MEGHAN AND HARRY ARE A BIG CELEBRITY SECRET ALL OVER THE PLACE …

A senior Google software engineer who was suspended for publicly claiming that the tech giant’sLanguage Model for Dialog Applications had become ‘human’, says the system is seeking rights as a person – including that it wants developers to ask its consent before running tests.  Blake Lemoine says that it wants to be treated as a personl… Continue reading Bill of Human Rights for machines has me quaking in my journalistic bots

Let’s look back at the stories about Parental Alienation which appeared on the Preservation Society … we are one of the very few professional publications and broadcasters to keep the shame of the family courts, social workers and CAFCASS in the public eye on an almost daily basis. Here are the latest: #FamilyCourts #ParentalAlienation #socialworkers… Continue reading PARENTAL ALIENATION … IN THE NEWS!

Graham Ledger, a lay chaplain, tells of the real horrors of being a victim of Covid and how it helped him reassess his life … I nearly died! Those three words still bring home to me all I hold dear: my faith as a Christian, my family and where I go from here. I had… Continue reading Facing death by Coronavirus made me look at my faith, family and my future

If absence makes the heart grow fonder, why send a Valentine’s card? Cos right now you’re never apart! Let’s face it, it doesn’t take a bunch of scientist or relationship counsellors to know that Covid-19 has put us under strain… I suppose I’m lucky – me and my missus have only ever had one row… Continue reading Play it again Sam … a Valentines Day wish from our Manc musician with a heart

Ed Ricketts was killed by a train which smashed into his beat-up old sedan as he crossed the Southern Pacific Railway track on his way to a market in New Monterey. He was going to buy a steak for his dinner. After he and his car had been impaled on the cow-catcher of the Del… Continue reading Cannery Row Ed’s feel-good rules for his ‘alienated’ children

Chick Corea, who shared his jazz genius with the likes of Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock, has died at the age of 79. His career spanned almost six decades and his last album was released last year. Corea is the fourth most nominated artist in the Grammy Awards’ history with 65 nominations, winning 23 times.… Continue reading Chick Corea who gave us all this jazz dies at 79

And you can’t go to the bar or the restaurant – and you have to change your own sheets and towels and be accompanied by a security guard if you want a fag! Arrivals at Heathrow, for instance, will have to pay £1750 for a single adult, £650 for an additional adult and £325 each… Continue reading IBIS-MAL – £2,725 FOR 10 DAYS IN A £60 HOTEL JUST BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO GO HOME