Author: Leigh Banks

In reality, is Thatcher’s tattered survival book all we are left with if nuclear bombs fly? Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Putin – we’ll just hide under our kitchen tables if you Nuke us! A simulation shows how a nuclear attack from Russia could trigger a war that kills 34 million people in just… Continue reading 34 million of us will die in Putin’s madness, says nuclear war scenario

Putin on the agony, Putin on the vile … Vladimir Putin has said there is no need for more massive strikes on Ukraine. He’d just carried out the heaviest bombardment of the country since his bloody war began. Then he claimed most designated targets had been hit, and that it was not his aim to… Continue reading MAD VLAD – I DON’T WANT TO DESTROY THE UKRAINE

By Erik Lastick Stay here at Vaudevillian ancestry… folklore i adore… these mega miles, smiles, yet from a sun— and a pasty pie wood-stove’s wood-bury— with hoards and restocks… and be of that of weird old America… it’s yodelling, knows of Bobby pins…papers and writ—twists. Earn him like a causeway of one’s whole generational long.… Continue reading A FRONT ROW INVITATION TO THE DYLAN TREASURES

Who is the self-styled super-sleuth who sparked the latest hunt for Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett on Saddleworth? Russell Stephen Edwards describes himself as a businessman originally from Birkenhead. He ran Yorkshire Ripper Tours for a while. But Edwards, aged 48, who has been published by Penguin Classics and was on-sale in Waterstones = he… Continue reading Ripper sleuth challenged by Alan Bennett over new Moors hunt for Keith

Who is the self-styled super-sleuth who sparked the latest hunt for Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett on Saddleworth? Russell Stephen Edwards describes himself as a businessman originally from Birkenhead. He ran Yorkshire Ripper Tours for a while. But Edwards, aged 48, who has been published by Penguin Classics and was on-sale in Waterstones also publishes… Continue reading Ripper sleuth challenged by Alan Bennett over new Moors hunt for Keith

The legendary Town Hall in New York is the venue of another tribute by T Bone Burnett to Bob Dylan. The Oscar and Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, was presenting a concert at the hall to mark the 60 years since Bob first appeared there. Burnett’s relationship with Dylan doesn’t go back that far, only to the… Continue reading Precious memories as T Bone marks Bob’s 60s NY town hall concert

Alienation campaigners shame world’s blood-on-their-hands courts Ponder these figures for a moment… you are quite likely to be a number in the equation. I certainly am… According to a new report by a group of psychiatrists, parental alienation is present in upto 15 per cent of divorce cases. And 25pc of parents use alienating behaviour for… Continue reading PLAQUE TO THE FUTURE

The brother of Moors Murderers victim Keith Bennett, has said he is keeping an open mind over a new dig on Saddleworth after a skull was found. Police are digging for Keith after remains were found, but police are treating the discovery with caution. The remains were found during an independent search, before being reported… Continue reading Alan ‘open minded’ as bone-find starts new Moors dig for his brother Keith

Over decades of being entranced by Bob Dylan’s art – from oil and acrylics to heavy metal welds, from poetry to rock’n’roll – I have understood his desire to keep changing direction to arrive at his definitive work. And at the opening of his European Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour he changed again … A… Continue reading FROM MANCHESTER TO OSLO, DYLAN REPAINTS HIS MASTERPIECES

The timetable of events are beginning to be shared following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest ever reigning monarch. This is what is expected to happen in the days ahead, including the journey of the Queen’s coffin from Scotland, her lying in state next week and her state funeral on Monday 19 September.… Continue reading YOUR LONG JOURNEY HOME MA’AM…