On the Beat

From the Scotsman: "Reasons to be cheerful: Scots are among Europe's happiest"....

Also on Boing Boing was this horrific story of a "Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children".

There is more on the New York Times website: Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands.

It is just a horrible, shocking story.

New Zealand police use picture of Robbie Coltrane on wanted poster - from the Times Online and the BBC.

Picture from Metro.

From the Daily Record*: "Celtic want Elvis".

Translation for anyone who isn't f4f3 or pshtaku: Celtic is a football club. "Elvis" is Steven "Elvis" Presley, who former captain of Hearts (another football club) who was fired this week by their megalomaniac chairman. Personally, I think he looks more like Reg than Elvis, but that's just me.

*And the Daily Record is a Scottish newspaper!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4851926.stm

Well, it made me laugh!

More or less verbatim: "A man from Wrexham has been arrested on firearms charges after shooting himself in the head with a home-made gun. He had difficulty speaking to police since the bullet is still lidged in his head."

Mouse Burns Down House in Revenge

From today's Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/10/wmouse10.xml