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Madeleine McCann

The ‘infallible’ sniffer dogs….

August 30, 2010

Cadaver dogs perform a grim but essential task – locating the presence of human remains, even minute particles of human remains. In America, the cadaver dogs first achieved national recognition in the aftermath of 9/11, helping to locate partial remains and thus confirm the death of missing people. These dogs have gained a considerable fan-club, [...]

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Intimidation and Coercion.

June 5, 2010

This afternoon Sandra Barr published an ‘Important Press Release’ from Robert Green to his Facebook group members. As with so much of the information which emanates from Robert Green, a kernel of half truths have been nurtured into a forest of conspiracy theories and defamatory lies. Since those defamatory lies concern myself and have now [...]

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Robert Green – Hollie Greig

May 31, 2010

I apologise for the length of this piece. There are a lot of facts to be laid out. I would also ask before you tell me that I have left this or that fact out that you refer to my original blog post on the subject – I have tried not to repeat myself here. [...]

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Abuse of Process.

May 25, 2010

I was so enraged by this case yesterday that my mind shut down. It literally would not countenance covering the subject and retreated instead into comforting thoughts of the innocent few days we had spent at Oléron . I refer, of course, to the stupendously misjudged prosecution of two children for the technical attempted rape [...]

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McCluedo – a Righteous game for all the family.

May 12, 2010

Madeleine McCann would be seven years old today. All across Britain there are other little girls celebrating their seventh birthday – and it is a matter of supreme indifference to all except those related to them. Not Madeleine though, for she, unwittingly, belongs to all of us. She had no say in her celebrity. It [...]

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Joining the dots…

April 16, 2010

Good Lord – there are some interesting candidates standing for election in the Cambridge area alongside Old Holborn. One who particularly raised my eyebrows is Helene Davies-Green who is standing for UKIP in South Cambridgeshire. Possibly, no probably, no, emphatically, not a name that would be instantly familiar to you – unless you had taken [...]

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Fairy Tales and Spin-Meisters.

April 3, 2010

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Once upon a time, we relied on the story teller for both news and education; we called him a troubadour. He travelled from market place to market place, alternately educating, advising, and passing on gossip. Around the beginning of the 19th C, the role of story teller changed [...]

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