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From World Titles to Mental Health Battles: Manchester’s Beloved Ricky Hatton

Fan favorite Hatton, known as The Hitman, won four world titles after trading blows with some of history’s greatest fighters.

He was a much-loved character in Manchester and his travelling support from the city was immense. His mental health challenges were well documented and extreme swings in weight can’t have helped with that but we sicerely hope the rumours of suicide are untrue.

A real Manchester legend.

From Sundance to Stardom: Robert Redford, 88, Dies After Iconic Career

The greats are dropping like flies this week. First we lose Ricky Hatton and then Robert Redford.

I do honestly think that Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid is my favorite movie of all time. Made in more innocent times it captured the romance of the American west through the charm of the two central characters. They were criminals but we liked them.

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The greats are dropping like flies this week.

Manchester Attack Exposes Failures in Starmer’s Immigration Policy

The murder of two people in Manchester yesterday in a terrorist attack at the Heaton Park synagogue is a tragedy. It is a tragedy, yet it could be the kick in the arse Starmer needs to start taking the threat of uncontrolled illegal immigration seriously.

Every sentient Briton knows that this happened because we, through politicians like Starmer, have incubated terrorism in our own country by allowing these extremists to settle here. Religious extremism is a mystery to most Brits. Father Brown would have no sympathy with a religious view that drives you to kill! It is absurd and highlights in big bold letters that some Muslims do not belong in Britain. Do not belong anywhere.

They are fanatics and they are dangerous. Secretly plotting in their bedrooms of ways to kill British people or groom our young girls. It is ridiculous. Starmer you are responsible for these two deaths. You have fannied around with the issue for too long and there are now real fatal consequences.

You share part of the blame for the death of these two victims with Jihad al-Shamie. He is described as British of Syrian descent. That is so clearly absurd. He is about as British as I am Chinese. How has this been allowed to happen? Where we can’t tell the truth about a situation for fear of offence. That has to stop, it is costing lives.

I don’t think you will do it. I do not understand your way of thinking. I am not alone and you will find that out at the next general election. Which cannot come soon enough.

Blue Lights Returns With Gritty New Series as Real-Life Policing Faces Fresh Scrutiny

The third series of the brilliant Blue Lights started this week on BBC1 and iPlayer. It has become a much-loved series depicting the real dramas that go on for members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).

Based in Belfast, it follows the challenges that new recruits and old hands face in this cauldron of conflict. In this series (spoiler alert), the unwelcome arrival of an almighty cocaine pushing operation has only added to the police service’s problems. That is difficult enough, without the added complication of “following police procedure”.

Suffice it to say that accountability and internal personnel watching over the officers every move is strangling their attempts

at securing a result. An opportunity to contribute real intelligence to an ongoing serious crime investigation is deemed an unlawful search my Miss Prissy Pants police ombudsman. The officer responsible’s job is under threat, the investigation is under threat and the people of Belfast are under threat from a rush of super cocaine onto their streets.

Coincidentally further police drama was being played out on Panorama last night. Apparently Met police officers have been behaving very badly down at Charing Cross police station. Police women have been offended by some hurty words, Muslim anarchists were singled out for comment and excessive force was used to restrain a violent offender.

We ask a lot of our police, they are assaulted, spat at and in some cases lose their lives in the line of duty. Yet, even when there is the opportunity to really move an investigation forward by gaining some useful information, unless exact police procedure is carried out then any prosecution case could fall apart on a technicality.

That is just ridiculous and needs reforming. How can it be that dangerous criminals can walk because someone has not followed procedure to the letter? That is just ridiculous.

I am not saying that it should become the wild west. Simply that a little common sense needs applying.

As for Panorama, they love to make a mountain out of a mole hill, don’t they?

The snide footage they showed was not that bad and was said in private to colleagues who have a shorthand for everything. These men and women face an increasingly tough task, with drug use and violence on the increase. It takes a particular type to join the police and keep us safe. I, for one, would rather let them get on with their jobs than tie them up in red tape or worse still, be filmed by an undercover Panorama employee. Panorama will claim a coup, whereas I think it has hobbled progress, which does not help at all..

Jimmy Kimmel Taken Off Air After Mocking Trump’s Response to Charlie Kirk’s Death

American broadcaster ABC has pulled late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over comments he made about the shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.

Earlier this week, Kimmel said during his show that the “Maga gang” was trying to score political points off Kirk’s killing. The late-night host also criticised flags being flown at half mast in honour of Kirk, and mocked US President Donald Trump’s reaction to the shooting. “This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he calls a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish,” said Kimmel, who has often poked fun at Trump.

Very often late night show hosts sail close to the wind with comments they make. Here, Kimmel seems to have gone too far with his remarks.

Having reviewed the monologue you can see where going up against the president in this way could have consequences. With Kimmel, it has led to cancellation. His writers should look at themselves too, reading the room means judging how far you can go.

Prison Officer, 27, Faces 10 Years for Affair With Violent Inmate

A female prison officer is facing a decade behind bars after embarking on an illicit affair with a violent inmate. Charlotte Winstanley, 27, had a “romantic relationship” with convicted thug Jabhari Blair, 29, during her time working at HMP Lindholme in South Yorkshire.

This very real phenomenon of starfucking certain prisoners has always amazed me. I once witnessed it first hand after Norman Parker, a notorious Parkhurst inmate was chased by over 1,000 women.

He turned a lot of them down.