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I am delighted to hear that Israel and Hamas have called a truce. I pray that it lasts and is part of the route to peace. But what I don't get is WHY IS STARTING TOMORROW? How can you call a truce, in other words agree to stop killing each other, and not do it now? When you agree to stop doing something...

I know that it was not the most serious news of the week, but did you hear that they have mended the toilet on the international space station? What got me was that it had been broken for two weeks before they fixed it. What did they do for two weeks without a loo on the space station? There aren't...

The paper I picked up on my train today tells me that *** cancer deaths have been halved due to the screening programme which has been run by the NHS. This is wonderful, but hardly surprising, is it? Screen people for *** cancer and you'll catch it and save lives. Would that we were so diligent in...

Is it just me or does anyone else wonder why every major institution appears to be giving away our personal details all at once? Is it a fashion thing? Maybe it's contagious? How come you never heard of it and now there have been several incidents within a few weeks. I wonder if it has actually been...

I have to say how much I admire our police forces when I see them engaged in work like they have been searching that house in Margate for bodies. I can't think how awful it must be, and of course my thoughts and prayers are with the families of Dinah McNicol and Vicky Hamilton. I was struck though...

It felt like I had been hit in the stomach. I just couldn't believe my ears when I heard that there had been another outbreak of foot and mouth. I am not a farmer and I admit that the only inconvenience to me personally, last time foot and mouth hit, was having my car disinfected regularly, but I...