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 to Greater Manchester Police.

Keith, aged 12, was snatched 58-years-ago by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and the case has never been resolved.

In a statement from his solicitor Alan Bennett said: “I have spoken to my client, Alan Bennett, concerning the reported development in the search for his brother Keith Bennett.

“My client is keeping an open mind on the latest report having regard to earlier such reports that have raised expectations but not resulted in finding Keith’s body.

“Naturally, the family are hoping that Keith has been found after all these years and their tireless efforts to find closure.

“I understand Greater Manchester Police are investigating a site of interest but that it will take some weeks to establish whether there is a connection with Keith.”

In another statement today Greater Manchester Police said: “We have always said that GMP would act on any significant information which may lead to the recovery of Keith and reunite him with his family.

“Officers met with a man yesterday evening (29 th September) and he was able to locate a site of interest and provide us with further details of the work he has been carrying out.

“We are at the very early stages of assessing the evidence which he brought to our attention, but have taken the decision to excavate an area of land with a view to determining what lies there.

“It is far too early to be certain whether human remains have been uncovered, but out of respect for Alan Bennett, who we regularly maintain contact with, we have informed him of this potential development.”

#keithbennett #myrahindley #ianbrady #moors #murderers

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 stunning reworking of When I Paint My Masterpiece accompanied only by Donnie Heron on violin.

Bob himself was playing a jaunty acoustic guitar and pizzicato harmonica.

The voice Bob is using on the his latest 11 country gig is getting a bit more jazzy – and on this ‘masterpiece’ it’s all about having a brush with a foot-tapping good time.

His PR in Norway hasn’t always been the best – in fact, when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, he announced he wouldn’t be at the ceremony.

It was due to ‘pre-existing commitments’ but was a major accolade to his career which seemed to get that old familiar Dylan snub…

The Oslo show marked the start of Dylan’s first European tour since 2019.

However, from my side, I’m waiting for our travelling troubadour hit Manchester, my home-town.

I missed the incendiary 85 tour – I was two young – and had to wait ‘til 1998 to catch him at the Arena where he did a workman-like, knee-bending show with a sullen Van Morrison.
It is good to hear a few weeks ago that Manchester’s demand for his live shows remains never ending and, anyway, his Rough and Rowdy world tour is being seen as a new pinnacle in journey to glory.

At 81 Bob is painting, writing a book on top songs, welding iron art, creating artful stage performances, playing piano like Manc hero Les Dawson, mugging to his audiences like a Cheshire cat and singing like he’s never sung before.

He has also added a new show in Oxford and Bournemouth after the original end dates due to “popular demand”.

Bob will now play 12 dates in the UK October and November 2022 as part of the tour which began in December in Milwaukee.

In July, he announced his first UK tour in more than five years.

He is playing four nights at the London Palladium before visiting Cardiff, Hull and Nottingham for arena shows, as well as two nights in Glasgow.

He will now also be performing at Manchester Apollo, Oxford New Theatre and closing at Bournemouth BIC.

All the shows are “non-phone events”, with the audience required to lock their phones in a Yondr bag for the duration of the performance.

Tickets for the new shows went on sale on September 5.

#bobdylan #roughandrowdy #neverending #rollingthunder #manchester #appollo #freetradehall #bobdylantour

Vladimir Putin has made a chilling death threat to the West … and he warns ‘I’m not bluffing’.

The nuclear threat follows the Moscow dictator’s plan to annex occupied areas of Ukraine and a vow to use ‘all means’ to defend them.

Putin said: “If there is a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, and in protecting our people we will certainly use all means available to us – and I’m not bluffing… Those trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the tables can turn on them.”

He also announced the partial mobilisation of Russia’s military reserves – 300,000 men – in the hope of turning the war in his favour.

His army suffered defeat near Kharkiv last week. that sparked fury in Russia and calls for him to resign.

So, Putin decided to hold you and me – the free world – to ransom.

#putin #russia #uk #ukraine #US #china

Leigh and Rodney are ranting as usual, but their guest, Las Vegas troubadour Tom Woods is urbane and relaxed as he talks about his musical vision for his future. And how this Hollywood video by Bob Mori came to be made

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THE GHOSTS OF TOM WOOD ARE COMING HOME – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society

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There are ghosts in the face of singer and songwriter Tom Wood. You can see them arrive when he performs.

Tom washed up in Vegas many years ago with music and an old love on his mind.

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He was brought up in St Louis and yet says he never had the blues. He did, he just doesn’t like to talk about it all that much… Tom is a big, lugubrious-looking man, but he is also a changeling with a smile, reserved and polite, gentle but emotional.

He is a writer with a passion too … the passion to demand things are put right, a passion against racism, iniquity and the bad treatment of human beings.

And, like Tom Paine, Tom Wood has a grand vision for society: Paine was anti-slavery and advocated world peace and social security for the poor and elderly.

Steinbeck’s Tom Joad is trapped between crippling poverty and a realisation that people have no place in this changing America.

Tom Wood has all these passions and they are indeed the ghosts in his face, his heart and his songs.

For many years he worked in the mountains and the desert and now he is on the rocky road home.

Here is his latest recording, Welcome Home, a beautiful sad ballad with ghosts and memories. But more than anything it has hope and you can see in the candlelight a new brightness coming.

Once again the brilliant LA film creator Bob Mori has put together a stunning video to promote Welcome Home.

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Also, see Tom chatting with Leigh and Rodney on Postcard about his music.

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Tom shines a light on the strange fruit swinging by America’s tracks of hatred – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society

Bob and Tom’s art of the sound and the fury… 9/11, lyrics inside – The Leigh G Banks Preservation Society

#bobdylan#tomwood #bobnori #tompaine #tomjoad #stlouis #LA #Vegas

I have never owned a commemorative cup or a Buckingham Palace tea towel.

Yet I shall miss the Queen.

She was as present in my life as a distant great aunt who you only saw at Christmas when she’d make a little speech, or at a school open day. Or in her holiday snaps… Abu Dhabi, Paris, the Vatican, the world.

I last met her when she and Philip visited Central Europe in 2008. I was part of the Press Pack invited to follow her around for a couple of days.

Queen Elizabeth was quite simply a pleasant person to be with. She looked good, was interested in everything, smiled genuinely and was amused by Philip’s antics with the Press. The joker in the pack, so to speak.

Over the years, because of my job, I met Diana, Charles, Andrew, Sarah and Ann.

But the abiding memory I have of Royalty is of a tiny old lady in her best clothes throwing in the puck in a mountainside ice stadium near the Polish border.

She was laughing, joking and smiling.

LET’S REMEMBER HER WITH GOOD FEELING – AND LET HER FAMILY FACE THEIR TRUTHS AND CONSEQUENCES ALONG THEIR OWN JOURNEY HOME.

#queen #funeral

The last details are in place for Britain’s farewell to Queen Elizabeth II.

More than a million people will line the streets of London this Monday morning to be part of the historic scenes of pomp and splendour and sorrow and solemnity, as Her Majesty’s coffin is taken from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey.

There will be 2,000 in the congregation, including Armed Forces veterans, NHS staff and charity workers.

The Queen’s coffin will be transported from the abbey to Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner, before she is carried by State Hearse to Windsor.

There, she will be lowered into the Royal Vault at St George’s Chapel, where she will join her beloved husband the Duke of Edinburgh and parents King George VI and the Queen Mother, and where her sister Princess Margaret’s ashes are interred.

#queen #elizabeth #funeral #westminter #abbey #king #charles

By Andrew John Teague

Should I die for wanting to see my kids?

The trauma of family courts is beyond anything anyone should ever be put through, not fit for purpose. The trauma shared by our innocent children, the forgotten children.

This 21st of October we lay these plaque’s at the family courts, to hold the family courts accountable for the suicides accumulated over the decades and still. Social media is far bigger than you or us. Through social media groups and pages we learn of so many deaths so many struggling in trauma.

Let’s not forget that children of contact denial not only abused can also be victims of suicide suicidal tendencies self harm self medicate fail in academics simplest life’s tasks. Feeling isolated abondonment attachment dissorders.

Children are more likely at some point in their future commit suicide if someone close to them have.

Decades have rolled by many a good parent fallen along the way. 

Family court bullying terrorising tactics push parents over the edge.

The blood is on their hands.

#familycourts #parentalalienation #suicide #family #children

An American tale of the estranged, on Labor Day weekend

By surreal writer Eric Lastick

JOHN’S SIDE

Lose  yourself and your shirt, this one sunny day. Close eye to the summer ocean waves…and the overcast dream. Burgundy fall atilt in the shallows of a coastal red tinted cracked glass wines. Magma, the tare of the sky, you look upon.. A thunder under you holds in anger…as family set a boat, a yacht…a strong current—leaving you behind. Now, your job…and workload is a melted ice-bar strapped snow-cones and Popsicle, you walk the sands and sells of the lax, and the frays of beachcombers—stretched like built-on microphones and miles—as the day is long. Seabird lose folly in the cornered shadows of the moon—while crackling vanity. Peanuts and jelly breads of the goes and twists—enter my shelled mind’s eye. Positive vibrations sways my attentiveness—too the bottom of the ocean’s basin…and wash me of sighted change for the good!

BEHOLD, THE ICECREAM MAN FROM RICHES TO RAGS: I am the cold-box, strap-on server of ice cream goodies—all along the sandy beach sides…and all up and down the rows and throws of volleyball …and lounge chair towels. Big visor hats…salty water days out in the burn of the sun. Lifeguard to the refresh of thirsts of vacationers—like a Haitian holiday…as now alimony and bankruptcy has cleaned my pockets dry’s ”She got it all!’ And there i go selling my MG and Indian motorcycle..my stamp collections–outta rare gems. Yes…as here i go out on the dunes with no buggy, yet a wish to re-enter an old life of money and wealth, but i am just to damn old. My new girl friend is a swindler…and no less a full deck of cards. A whiskey hard drinking buddy of sorts. Bukowski style! She squashes bar flies…as silly drunks with the meanness in her eyes. Fall and capture to her fast karate legs…her dancer skills of yesteryear.  Today, a can’t miss an attempt to join the french foreign legion…out of a time machine—along with a drunk-in bath of salty air,and an even uglier good humor man, on the sunny beaches, this labor day weekend!

‘You see, i swore off liquor and crab-claws, the late hour…and poker faces that don’t buy my bluffs. I even gave up Poole sharking, although i have this bad habit of getting my teeth rearranged …and knocked in, after a bad game—and lesser pockets. Yet the one good thing i do have are my writing skills…as my pen to paper…and as i open my mail along my walkway apartment where i used to live, now my 2000 model Subaru which is alive with a plus sign as a new published novelist on the uptick! What do you know, they loved it…and of great expectations…a large advance…and mostly a thankful of gas…and I’m on my way!

(JANE’S SIDE)

She is the sea, the black and white wave of it…and nearest the sunrise, she sits by her table…and actually submerged in the shallow waves—- looking out at to the sea.—with gulls in free-form motion, as the forces of tide roll on in…though it does not stop her…as the bright of the sun is a morning love affair with a solitary time to mind, and to gift the minutes away. Water weight image of all her yesterdays…corporate lies…businessmen deceptions—and the very holds on her life. Her ex husband on the wayside of the starve…and her kids grown and angry…as the clock strikes the AM’S of all our labors, this labor day. Tuition like a tailwind that rip and gather to no end, yet her chair and  table  edges of the sandy background, hover of the sea. She sees freedom in the clearing…as the low tides subsides and she lowers her eye-where…and eye-weight of her every storm. Draws of metaphors…and waves lift at a surfer fall. The pipeline is what she views from her table and chair. Wet hair, blouse and shorts…as she envisions, the free-flowing ocean water. Salts and water taffy on the boardwalk strip…and the empty out of the Alawishes of old school tastes and events, in the movements and memory of solitary. Salty air…and the rows of fishes—dilly dally the waters long. The wide of a pipeline, encircle as if a new born spirit in her. She, the ex…and  how one now know that her own peace of mind by the shore, this labor day; as her life by the ocean, is her solitary happiness too this new day.

Mad Vlad Putin could be facing an invasion nightmare.

He has’ no good options’ after an offensive by Ukraine inflicted Russia’s most serious military defeat on the battlefield since the Second World War.

Military expert JUSTIN BRONK, a research fellow at London’s Royal United Services Institute, has analysed the situation as Ukrainian troops pile pressure on retreating Russian forces.

Ukraine wants to hold onto its new momentum amid hopes that a turning point in the war has finally been reached.

The counter-offensive left the Kremlin struggling for a response to its largest military defeat in Ukraine since Russia pulled back from areas near Kyiv.

It comes after Russia’s state media war correspondent Alexander Sladkov accidentally revealed the scale of their losses in Ukraine, telling the Kremlin-run Rossiya 1 news channel that a ‘huge number of people’ have died. Mr Bronk said Ukraine has ‘baited Russia into accepting an attritional battle in a very militarily disadvantageous position’, adding that Russia ‘will be hard pressed simply to avoid any more disasters before winter’.

The expert, who also gave his analysis to MailOnline in a video, said it had been ‘one of the most successful counter-offensives we’ve seen in modern history in terms of territory gained over a given speed of advance’.

#russia #ukraine #war# #defeat #