VinceTracy Podcasts

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.

Thousands of Syrians have been;treated for nerve gas symptoms following an alleged chemical attack in Damascus, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has said. Three hospitals in the city reported 355 deaths on Wednesday from around 3,600 people who were admitted with nerve-gas like symptoms. The USA and Britain are talking tough A Super Puma helicopter crash happened on Friday night two miles off Shetland. It fell like a stone into stormy seas while approaching the airport. Thankfully, 14 of those on board were able to free themselves from the wreckage.....and a secret plane sent to Greece stuffed full of cash that saved the euro.....

The British Ambassador to Lima, James Dauris. is quoted as saying ‘Peru is now the major producer of cocaine in the world and more than 70 per cent goes to Britain. But only 20 per cent pure cocaine ends up with the user because of the way it is cut down the chain.....‘Veterinary anaesthetics that kill worms in animals are used to dilute it.' This is set against the background of two young ladies apprehended as they were set to carry drugs on a flight from Peru to Madrid. A man was out walking a hike with his 11 year old son. After asking directions from a guard at an Agricultural college...Two hours later, we were toiling along the verge of the B1248 about five miles north when we were passed by a police car and police van in convoy. They did a U-turn and swept up beside us. What was that all about? Scotland Yard were assessing the credibility of new information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed including an allegation that they were murdered by a member of the British military. And the HS2 link is claimed to be a stake in the heart of middle England. s it really necessary?

THE British Prime Minister has been forced to step into the most heated dispute between Gibraltar and Spain in over a decade.David Cameron insists threats to impose a border tax, a no-fly zone and a tax investigation into thousands of Gibraltarians with property in Spain was of ;serious concern;.The row comes after weeks of mounting tensions and, in particular, Gibraltar's decision to create an artificial reef just off the Rock.The installation of a series of concrete blocks aimed to conserve fish stocks, but prompted accusations from Spain that it would stop fishermen being able to earn a living.Outrage was caused when the Spanish rapist of 11 children in Morocco was officially pardoned after just two years in jail.  Now convicted paedophile, Daniel Galvan Vina, has been arrested on his arrival in Spain.A FOOTBALL match at this year's World Police and Fire Games was abandoned after the Marbella team's sportsmanship turned sour.In the UK Energy bills could soar by up to 10 per cent in the next couple of months, households have been warned.The announcement came in the same week it was revealed Britain's big six energy companies have enjoyed a 3.3billion windfall in profits since the election.Police forces across the country are investigating 169 officers and support staff in relation to sex-related offences, it has been revealed.The investigations include allegations of rape, sexual assault and voyeurism at forces across the country, according to reports.Britain's largest force, the Metropolitan Police, has now set up a working group to 'deter inappropriate relationships and the abuse of police powers to perpetrate sexual offending'.New research has revealed the surprisingly sinister history behind some of Britain's most commonly used phrases.  'Gone to pot' dates back to a time when boiling a criminal to death was a legal punishment, while 'pulling someone's leg' came into use at a time when London was rife with thieves who tackled their victims by pulling them to the ground by their leg.

Little Daniel Pelka weighed just 1st 9lbs when he died in March last year in Coventry in the UK. During his final months, his mother and her evil lover starved him, forced him to perform punishment exercises, locked him in a tiny room, poisoned him with salt and held him under cold water until he lost consciousness. As the authorities in Coventry investigate whether more could have been done to save Daniel, it has emerged that teachers Coventry’s Little Heath Primary, were offered counselling. At school, the starving boy scavenged in bins, scoffed birthday cake and filled his pockets with fruit from his class’ communal bowl but teachers believed his mother’s lie that he had an eating disorder. Why did social workers, police and teachers missed so many opportunities to save him? Peter Hitchen's article in the Mail tells us The UK Government’s pretence of being resolute and decisive on immigration is a lie. He says it is almost as bad as New Labour’s secret decision to transform the country with migrants. He asks whether they really think that hiring a couple of publicity vans will fool anybody? He asks readers to be angry and vengeful, and to make that revenge hurt, to vote UKIP as often as you can, to destroy the wretched ‘Conservative’ Party which so insults your intelligence. The latest country report for Spain from the International Monetary Fund extends the time to escape recession to 2018. They say no new employment will be created for another three years, because the GDP growth will take until 2018 to reach 1.2%. A growing number of people are ignorant about the First World War and know little more about it than what ‘Baldrick’ said in the TV comedy Blackadder, a new report claims. The report claims one in ten think Hitler was the leader of Germany when the war started and nearly one in 12 young adults thinks Britain and Germany were allies, not enemies. A similar number think Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister at the time, according to the report published on the eve of tomorrow’s 99th anniversary of the start of the Great War. Have teaching standards really dropped so low?

Police in Spain have accused the driver of a train that derailed in northwestern Spain, killing at least 80 people, of ;reckless homicide; the country's interior minister said Saturday. The judge has until Sunday evening local time to decide whether to press formal charges against Jose Francisco Garzon, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz told reporters in Santiago de Compostela;The ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, Justin Welby, yesterday ordered a probe to discover how the Church of England came to invest in payday loan firm Wonga. He also confessed it had left him irritated and embarrassed;.The financial link was revealed hours after he said he wanted to wipe out the controversial company, which can charge the equivalent of up to 5,853 per cent in annual interest. The Church's pension fund handed millions to US venture capital firm Accel Partners who invested 163;75,000 in Wonga in 2009;The Archbishop, a former oil boss, said:I understand the business, It' an incredibly complicated business. They got163;75,000 indirectly through an indirect holding in Wonga; And finally, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have named their son George Alexander Louis,. The third in line to the throne,was born on Monday at 16:24 BST, and will be known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge. Apparently, The Queen was told of Prince George's name when she met him for the first time on Wednesday.

The heatwave is creating havoc in the UK although Spain is also very hot. The NHS is under attack and we remember the changes throughout the years. A Beer drinking competition in Spain sheds light on the fact that Spain, in most senses, doesn't have the same social problems with drink. Alcohol related problems are also adding tothe number of early deaths in young women in the UK. Finally, it's not all one way traffic as gangs of ·European drivers are making life exceedingly difficult for British police forces.

The Poet and Reggae star, Benjamin Zephaniah, wrote an article in The Guardian saying anyone who attended the San Fermin Festival of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona in Northern Spain would have blood on their hands. Yesterday, dozens were injured following a horrific pile-up at the infamous Spanish bull running festival. One Irish victim is suffering from traumatic asphyxia caused by crushing. Runners taking part in the San Fermin festival in Pamplona were trampled on in a massive crush as the animals they were fleeing from tried to climb over them from behind. A Spanish man was said be "very gravely ill" with serious internal injuries after his chest was crushed. UK MPs have revealed it will take 37 YEARS to clear a new backlog of half a million immigration cases. The Home Affairs Select Committee said it is “staggering” that 502,462 applications are still outstanding. The devastating verdict comes in an inquiry into the failed UK Border Agency, which has now been scrapped and broken up. The scandal plunges border bosses back to the dark days of the 1990s when a secret backlog of 460,500 asylum cases built up. The number of foreign offenders living in the UK awaiting deportation also rose last year to 4,102 THE heartbroken parents of a trainee doctor who died at a notorious seaside resort have blamed their son’s death on Britain’s binge-drinking culture. Tim and Jeane Doy told an inquest 26-year-old Oliver would still be alive if bar staff had refused to serve him more booze. Most of the reaction to the story seems to show that the readers feel it was his own fault and being a trainee doctor he should have known better. Finally, to lighten the podcast a milkman in the UK has been banned from whistling on his rounds and a lollipop man has been banned from giving 'high fives' to the children as he helps them cross the road outside their primary school......

In the Mail online...Neighbours of Abu Qatada have threatened to stop paying council tax if his family is not removed from the area. This was in the news as Qatada was this morning flown to Jordan in a private jet commissioned by the Home Office from RAF Northolt after a ten-year battle costing taxpayers 2.1;million.we're led to believe his wife, two sons and two daughters will remain living in the UK.  Baroness Butler-Sloss, who gave Jon Venables and Robert Thompson lifelong secret identities after they committed one of Britain's most notorious child murders when killing James Bulger, is reported as saying he did not deserve to be locked up for ever....and she denied there was evidence to show that paedophiles who seek out indecent images online also carry out physical assaults. All this is reported in the UK newspapersHeadlines in the Sun UK tell us."Four of us had sex with one girl on first night... we didn't even ask her name."..The paper goes on with the gory details........it's 4am in the Greek resort of Kavos. Two British teens are having sex in the street, while another is filming himself performing a sex act on a girl so drunk she is barely conscious. Other young Brits cheer as a 19-year-old downs a pint of his own urine, and the queue for A&E stretches on to the vomit-covered street.Kavos is now one of the most popular resorts for UK teenagers......