Some members of Top Of The Pops dance group Pan’s People say they were preyed on backstage by ‘slimy and repulsive’ Jimmy Savile. Although I can't remember anyone coming forward at the time they watched in horror as young girls lined up outside his van. Did anyone say anything? The dancers ‘hated’ the show’s ‘creepy’ host but say they were ‘bulldozed into being nice to him because he was extremely popular and powerful at the Beeb’. I wonder why nothing was said! A convicted paedophile serving time in prison has been awarded more than £30,000 after suing his former employers, RWE NPower, from his prison cell. They had refused to pay him a redundancy settlement after reading about his sentence for child pornography in the local paper. There is a picture in the paper of young socialites out on a shooting spree in Edinburgh. Pippa Middleton is a member of the photo shoot. Many soap stars are declaring bankruptcy and we wonder what is going on. Do they need counselling? .......and children at Egerton Community Primary near Bolton, Greater Manchester, have been banned from playing traditional games like tag and British Bulldog because teachers claim they are too dangerous. Parents were told in a newsletter that children can no longer play the playground games.

Is the monarchy really changing? On October 10th Buckingham Palace hosted its first official game of football between two Sunday League amateur sides. Ptince William had organised the match to mark the 150th anniversary of the Football Association. He is president. The match involved two of the oldest amateur clubs in England: Civil Service FC – the sole surviving club from the 11 that met to found the FA in 1863 – and Polytechnic FC, formed in 1875. Palace staff had spent weeks preparing the pitch. I'd visited a town in the Valencian Community called l?Alcudi and we discussed the importance of making a good paella in Valencia. My experience was very revealing and Neil had recently been to the local village of Polop for their Paella week. The day was even more interesting as it had been a Valencian Holiday. The connections between stress and physical and mental health are undeniable. I have a vested interest in discussing this as my mother had this horrible disease. Studies have found links between acute and/or chronic stress and a wide variety of health issues. Fortunately, there’s compelling research showing that your brain h as great plasticity and capacity for regeneration, which you control through your diet and lifestyle choices. The article we discussed has a great insight into what we an do to help ourselves. Fasting has a remarkably beneficial influence on your brain health. Researchers in Argentina recently presented evidence suggesting that stress may be a trigger for the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. The research was presented at the annual World Congress of Neurology in Vienna. According to lead author, Dr. Edgardo Reich:2 He is quoted as saying, "Stress, according to our findings, is probably a trigger for initial symptoms of dementia".

The Queen is set to receive an inflation-busting 22 per cent;pay rise over two years, according to new official figures. This is set against another picture where The British Red Cross is to start distributing food to hard-up families for the first time since the Second World War as it warned that thousands face cuts to their household budgets. It is also interesting;how the papers are trying to create confusion? The recession caused a surge in binge drinking among the unemployed, new research shows. Britons typically drank less due to the economic downturn as wage packets shrank. But, according to a study published in the European Journal of Public Health, those without work were more likely to turn to alcohol.We also looked at a story of huge weight loss. A woman who lost more than 21 stone through weight loss surgery says saggy skin left by the NHS-funded procedure has turned her life into a nightmare. Natalie White, 48, is demanding NHS bosses fund more surgery to remove the excess skin from her stomach, arms and legs after she shrunk from 35 stone to 13st 11lb following a sleeve gastrectomy. She said: 'In the summer, it's a nightmare. The skin rubs and leaves rashes all over my stomach. Two Russian millionaires ran up a bar bill of 130, 000 we are led to believe. Could it be a publicity stunt? This is when levels of inequality have reached unprecedented heights in Russia, with more than a third of its wealth concentrated in the hands of just 110 super-rich people, says a new report.-and they nearly all owe their wealth to President Vladimir Putin. He's allowed trusted businessmen to gain exclusive rights to the nation's vast natural reserves. I supppose they have had to work to make their fortunes....

The Great British Bake-Off has just been bought by thirteen countries around the world. BBC Worldwide, the corporation's business arm, has licensed the format to Australia, Poland, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Finland and Ukraine in a major deal. Obese Sammee Matthews (28 stones) was diagnosed with sitophilia - an erotic obsession with food - in her case cakes and sweets. The mum-of-two from Las Vegas, USA, says just the sight of a bakery is enough to send her weak at the knees and out of breath. Meanwhile, in the UK, statistics have listed seven children recorded as weighing more than 20 stone between 2006 and 2012. Soaring numbers of youngsters are suffering complications linked to their weight. 30% are classed as obese when they had left primary school. More than 1,200 people have been killed by high-risk mental health patients over the past 10 years. These figures emerged after a recent case when paranoid schizophrenic Phillip Simelane, 23, was jailed indefinitely for knifing to death Christina Edkins, 16, on a bus. He had been on the files of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust for eight years and was freed from jail unsupervised weeks before he killed. And a call centre operator at at the Halifax Bank insists on speaking to a six-month old BABY about his savings account despite not being able to talk! It's Europe Calling

We had a look back at the argument between the Daily Mail and Ed Miliband after the newspaper had printed an artcle saying his dad had hated Britain. Ed Miliband, quite rightly, sprang to the defence of his father and showed how he had fought for Britain. New policies in UK Education stated how worried they were regarding harmful stresses put on children for constant testing. We lloked at our own education. There's a story about a bloke of 24 who was called a boy-racer for his dri9fting activities at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour. There was also a very sad story about an incestuous relationship forced by a father on his daughter. An obese mum has lost 10 stone by desigining an assault course around her home.

Women are to be banned from claiming free breast enlargements on the NHS. This will be part of a new spending crackdown. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and his advisers are drawing up rules which will prevent women from claiming ‘psychological’ need in order to receive cosmetic enhancement at the taxpayers’ expense. Officials believe that an increasing number of women are using the system creativel to secure enhancements which can cost up to £10,000 privately. An article by Fiona Govan explained how Bullfighting is to be given "cultural heritage worthy of protection" after a successful vote was givena congressional culture committee and will go to a vote in the Senate later this month. The National Court in Madrid has ruled that education is a public job which takes precedance over data protection. The Head Master of a Madrid school checked the mobile phone of a 12 year old boy to see whether it contained any sexual conten. This happened after another, female pupil had complained about what he had shown her..... A Judge Javier Albar decided a driving school in Zaragoza was not discriminatory for offering male learners a cheaper deal on a course of driving lessons. His reasoning was that young men learn quicker and need less time. In the UK, Princess Diana, Madelaine McCann and Jimmy Saville are all back in the news and the police have been extremely busy in Felixstowe.

Sex Box-a new TV show ........Caroline in France ..Porn, plain and simple and they may show it to their kids?! Words fail me. Most kids don’t even want to hear mention that their parents still ’do it’ let alone watch! In the UK papers pupils have to wear hijabs in and OUT of class for the first time at a state-backed school in Blackburn....800-pupil Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School where, we're informed, students already have to dress in long purple tunics over black trousers to ensure flesh is not seen. Under the rules, pupils must 'wear the hijab outside the school and home, recite the Koran at a least once a week' and not have stationery which shows 'unIslamic images' But is it all accurate as Afifa says..."It's actually quiet funny on how wrong this article is... Coming from a person who has been to that school."... The old soldiers try to tell the MInister for Defence the Fusiliers should not be disbanded and gets banned from the hall. Does socialism pay? Tony Blair has been seen stepping out of a £7,000-an-hour bespoke aircraft complete with stateroom, lounge, kitchen and bed. How much more than a claimed 50 million pounds does former Prime Minister need? The European Union spends more on advertising than the drinks giant Coca-Cola, this is according to a new analysis of how Brussels spends its money. The EU spends £2.4billion a year . Coca Cola spends £2.13billion spent in the same year promoting its brand around the world

Colorado residents are bracing themselves for further flooding and devastation, with more storms due to hit on Sunday. More than 500 people are missing and at least four people have died, with another victim believed to be dead, after flash floods. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those suffering.Here in Spain the Catalan Region has shown great support for independence but the Prime Minister Rajoy will not allow a referendum. On the Costa del Sol a bus driver has been seen talking on his phone whilst driving his packed bus;.this coming after Europe's worst train disaster where the driver had been on the phone.On August 6th two young ladies were caught with over 1 million pounds worth of cocaine in their suitcases. One has admitted her guilt as a sort of plea bargain and we wonder why the other hasn't. How difficult is it to give a fair trial to actors like Michael Le Velle?A former SAS soldier who helped teach Prince William how to drive alleged his former colleague shone a light into the Paris tunnel where Princess Diana died to distract her driver in a planned assassination.Parents should continuing reading to their children up to the age of nine and beyond to help boost their academic results, according to new research.The study by the Oxford University Press found a sharp decline in the numbers of parents reading bedtime stories after their children had begun to master books themselves, usually around the age of seven.Senior hospital doctors are now raking in the overtime and we wonder whether there is enough money for new doctors to be employed. Finally, Peter Hitchens has written an article criticising the work of the police and we tend to think it is a little unfair.

We really found Syria heavy going this week.. It is so difficult to understand why Obama is pushing so hard and I found an article by Liam Fox who had been the Defence Secretary in the UK. He talked about ten really dangerous topics. He said this about Pakistan.'When economic and government systems fail, anarchy or terrorism can follow all too easily. We are already battling these forces in places such as Somalia and Yemen, but one country stands out in terms of the risks it poses: Pakistan'.He then wrote about the dangerous situation posed by water.'The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says that by 2030 some 47 per cent of the world's population will be living in areas of high water stress; and that means high human stress too. How many people are aware that only ten countries in the world control 60 per cent of our planet's fresh water? He wrote about our problems with the Eurozone and our debt crisis and the fact that the UK has an aging population. ;As you'd expect we also added our news from Spain

Did the UK make a huge mistake in joining the Common Market and turning its back on its traditional markets in 1973? Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, thinks it was a mistake. The housing market in the UK is proving most difficult and there are many new tenant hotspots. Where does the policy need to go next? There is even a call to build more bungalows .... Meanwhile the corruption persists around the UK and Spain as the questions are raised over the pay-offs in the NHS.