Heather Mills Life "At Risk"

Police have announced they have received intelligence of a threat to Heather Mills-McCartney's safety.

They have briefed Ms. Mills on the situation, revealed the names of the people involved in the "non-specific" threat, from Merseyside and have issued her with a panic alarm so she can contact Sussex Police immediately if she feels at risk. Police have risk-assessed the threat and are "satisfied" there is no imminent risk to her safety.

But, God forbid, an incident happened the vicinity of Ms. Mills property and she felt at risk, would she have a problem gaining access to help??

As you all will be aware, the same force are trying to deal and investigate the murders of five prostitutes in the red-light district of Ipswich. With declining police stations and shorter opening hours standard and currently, a large majority of staff at Sussex Constabulary investigating these murders, how can taxpayers be assured that they will get the service they deserve when a crisis like this comes along?

More should be done to prevent our services closing. A&E Departments in Hospitals, Post Offices and Police Stations. All of them are dwindling away. Just today, it was announced that 2,500 post offices would be closed by 2008. Adults have to travel miles to get to an Accident & Emergency that will serve them and Police Stations are on the 9-5 Monday-Friday.

In the Summer we found a dog and decided to get it to a Police Station. We had to wait an hour outside at 9.30pm at night, (not a nice scenario) for one of the two police cars operating in the area that night to come back to the station.

The hard-working public would be a little more understanding of taxes if the services they were paying for were around. Right?

If It Isn't One Thing, It's The Media

Today I got "The Guardian." As I always do. I like the paper because of its view on things and because of the supplements you get each day. On Mondays, you get media. Now don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with the media, in fact, I read the supplement with interest to see what job openings they have in the big providers and to have a little nosy at goings on, but it was frustratingly predictable that they'd have a full page dedicated to "The X Factor/Strictly."

This whole reality TV show idea that we've all got into is soooo boring. I mean, who would seriously want to watch 50 men stuck in a vault with only a Chocolate Bar??? Or 2 Z-List Celebrities trying to resurrect their careers by dressing up in leotards and drag? (Cough, George Galloway, subject of ridicule for weeks afterwards.)

My point its bad enough HAVING reality TV about without the media gossiping on "who is better the scouser who has a persona but can't sing or the next Whitney Houston with the personality and outgoing nature of a sponge?? Let's just hope the phase blows over...

... after six weeks of Celebrity Big Brother and Soapstar Superstar pencilled into start right at the beginning of January. Natch.