I've been enjoying cycling around the West End in the last couple of weeks ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon the weather turned foggy


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In the news:

A Birmingham man has said a police officer subjected him to a torrent of homophobic abuse in the city’s gay village, in the latest blow to West Midlands Police’s “gay-friendly” image 
Click here for the Pink Paper article

Anti-gay police complaints 'rise' 
It estimated that there were about 7,000 homophobic incidents among police last year ( Read more... )

I left work slightly early tonight to go to our local Safer Neighbourhood Panel meeting, to represent - with the lovely Lynne - our residents' association. The Panel is made up of police, representatives of the council and some ordinary citizens like myself. 
It is quite interesting as the police tell us what they have been doing in the last 2 ( Read more... )