They must be VERY busy today, sad for me though.
Another matter that I hope someone can help me with. I used to read a blog called:http://madderthanfiction.blogspot.com/ now when I go there it appears to be invite only. I've forgotten what the blog was about, but I must have read it once and liked it, or I wouldn't have bookmarked it. If the site manager is reading this, or someone knows who it is, can you ask them if they'd send me an invite please.
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OH and theres always alsabellas if your homeless !! :))
Dove , 3As up and running again !! Wahoooo!!! Hubby thought he was going to have to converse with me tonight :)))
I do use Alsabellas as I think that she's brilliant and a true buddy. As for you, you keep me sane, I don't just look like I'm talking to myself and you add useful content to the page. I'm not sure whether I should have the cheek to ask her to link to this feeble blog, but as a person who respects the work of those such as Viv (bless her) and Alsabella it would be an honour if they did.
Thanks for keeping me company.
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Dove im sure if you post alsabella and ask her about that she will link it for you,she is a lady contrary to what rosiepops and co say, and it can be nasty. As an Irishwoman i find that in order to find my equla i must converse with myself or the almighty!!!! Dont mind me , its just the thought of St Patricks day gettin me all excited. If you put a link to this on alsabellas,or as sassy calls her arsabella blog you can expect some very nasty anons , unless you are around to delete them as they come in the place can become vile. Talk to you soon.
Scandal link to masons in NHS
By Colin Brown
Sunday, 27 February 2000
Leaders of Britain's ruling medical body, the General Medical Council, will be questioned by MPs about possible links between Freemasons in the medical profession and a series of medical scandals.
Leaders of Britain's ruling medical body, the General Medical Council, will be questioned by MPs about possible links between Freemasons in the medical profession and a series of medical scandals.
There are concerns within Whitehall that the GMC may have been slow to act against doctors because of a Freemason network within the NHS.
The GMC, which came under fire for its failure to clamp down on failing doctors after the Bristol baby deaths and the Shipman serial killings, will be asked to disclose details of its own voluntary register, when its leaders go before the Commons select committee on health this week.
Rumours about Freemasonry in the medical profession have been circulating in Whitehall since the Bristol baby deaths scandal, and ministers are anxious to ensure there has been no cover-up.
There are an estimated 8,000 masonic lodges in England and Wales. A number of leading hospitals, including the Royal London, have lodges, but exact figures are elusive and few doctors openly admit to being masons.
MPs were astonished to discover that the GMC had a voluntary register for "conflicts of interest" which has not been made public. Howard Stoate, the Labour MP and GP, said he would be challenging the GMC to disclose the register.
He said: "It should be made public. It's entirely a matter for doctors to decide what to declare on the register. It's secretive; that's outrageous."
Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary, has privately made plain he wants the GMC to carry out a shake-up of its disciplinary procedures to regain the public confidence that was shattered by the disclosures in the Shipman case.
He was furious that Shipman was allowed to continue as a GP throughout the trial and was only struck off by the GMC after the guilty verdict of the jury. Mr Milburn has told the GMC it has the power to suspend GPs when they are under police investigation, but the GMC is prevaricating.
"Ministers are losing patience with the GMC," said a Whitehall source. The health committee, chaired by Labour MP David Hinchliffe, has called GMC leaders to give evidence at an emergency hearing on its plans for reform.
The GMC announced it would be carrying out its own review, leading to possible reforms in the wake of the Shipman case. Ministers demanded that as a minimum they wanted a majority of laymen on the Council, but its president, Sir Donald Irvine, a retired family doctor, said he was against such a move.
David Mellor, the former Tory health minister, called for the whole GMC to be sacked. The Council has 54 seats for doctors who are elected for a five-year term by doctors. There are 25 lay members appointed by the Department of Health, and 25 by the universities and royal colleges.
The British Medical Association said ministers should fully consult the medical profession before moving towards political overseeing of the GMC.
In its statement, the GMC accepted the need for reform. "We know that to maintain public trust and guarantee that the GMC is doing the best job possible of protecting patients, changes need to be made to the way in which we operate. We have already identified some of those changes and are working urgently to put them in place."
ARTICLE 1 - SOL, SATURDAY 4 AUGUST
By Felicia Cabrita
The PJ have not found the slightest traces of Madeleine McCann in the gardens of Robert Murat�s house.
According to Sol�s inquiries, the search will continue tomorrow morning, very early, but this time will run through the interior of the home wher Murat lives with his mother.
The PJ - who are conducting the search together with a team of English police, accompanied by tow dogs that have also come from England - spent the whole of Saturday going through the gardens and tomorrow will revisit the interior of the house, including searching for hidden places and double walls.
As Sol indicated in yesterday�s (Saturday) edition, since the middle of this week the Portuguese and Englisg police have been conducting searches with dogs in the Ocean Club apartment where the McCann family spent their holidays, and in the immediate vicinity of the apartment, located in Prai Da Luz.
According to police sources �there are strong indications� that Maddie, who disappeared almost 100 days ago �is already dead�.
Sol�s inquiries indicate that in the search of the McCann�s apartment the English dogs �indicated� Maddie�s death [had occurred there].
These are dogs that are trained specifically for two types of tasks: one to detect human traces that originate from a dead body and the other to detect blood or other human fluid.
Despite this, the police have to conduct inquiries to rule out all hypotheses that have been raised in the case and it is in this context that the searches of the Murat home are being conducted.
One of the bits of information that reached the investrigators is that Murat�s mother frequently conducts work in her garden, and is a specialist in rapid landscape gardening.
To date, nevertheless, it is increasingl clear that that no evidence exists against Murat and his mother. And, according to our sources, the police investigation has returned to its initial focus - on those close to the McCanns.
04.08.07, 8:10pm
in Sol on August 4, 2007:
a report by Felicia Cabrita with Margarida Davim
translation by astro
Looking for Maddie�s body
The investigations have returned to their initial course. Portuguese and british police search for the body of the child in the surroundings of Praia da Luz
�There are strong signs� that Madeleine, the english child that disappeared from Praia da Luz almost one hundred days ago, �is dead�, police sources have told Sol.
The 180� turnaround that the investigation by the Policia Judiciaria (PJ) from Portimao seems to have done in the past few days, even led the Attorney General, Pinto Monteiro, to postpone the making of an interview that had been requested by british media chain BBC � an interview that would be focusing on the fact that, so long after Maddie�s disapperance, the authorities still remain without real clues concerning her whereabouts.
Although an official source from the PGR justified the postponing of the interview with �agenda issues�, the moves by the PJ and some elements from the british police during these last days � accompanied by two dogs, in Praia da Luz � seem to indicate that the investigation is now centered on the McCann family and their group of friends.
Sol could find out that the english dogs are trained for different tasks. One, to detect human remains originating from dead flesh, and the other one to detect human blood or fluids. A specialist that was contacted by Sol explains that the technique of these animals rests on scientific bases, and that while �one of the dogs can distinguish between natural death or death by accident that does not involve bloodshed, the other one can diagnose whether someone died a violent death, with bloodshed or other spilled fluids�.
Tuesday night, a black and white cocker spaniel that is trained to detect death, spent several hours in the apartment that the McCann family occupied in the Ocean Club resort, and from where Maddie disappeared on May 3. According to sources within the investigation, the dog marked the death of the child inside the apartment.
On the dogs� trail
The english dogs do not contradict the clues that were detected by the sniffer dog that GNR sent to the location, on the day following the english girl�s disappearance. It�s an animal that only follows odours, and that �detected the movement of the child from the room to another point inside the apartment�, according to a source with the Guarda.
The same source said that �based on that signal, it was not possible to conclude whether the child was alive or dead � because a sniffer dog will smell both the living and the dead�.
Yet, outside the house, both through the windows that faced the Tapas restaurant � where the McCanns had dinner with their seven friends � and through the main door, �the dog lost the trail, as if the child had exited, for example, rolled up in a blanket�, that source said.
A team from Sol, on the terrain for the last two weeks, could observe the work of the cocker spaniel from the british police, performing several diligences along the water in Praia da Luz and in a nearby valley.
The animal�s path, on Wednesday night, seemed to test the deposition from several witnesses that were heard by the PJ in late May � namely an irish family that have been living in Luz, and who, on the day that Maddie vanished, reportedly crossed ways with a man that carried a child that seemed to be asleep.
According to their deposition to PJ, Martin Smith, his wife and his children, after leaving the Kelly bar, which is located approximately 400 metres from the Ocean Club, around 9.50 / 10.00 p.m., saw an individual described as caucasian, measuring 1.70 � 1.75 m, walking towards the beach.
The irish man told Sol that he knew Robert Murat (the only arguido in the process) visually for years � and also remembered seeing the anglo-portuguese man in a bar that evening, �already a bit intoxicated�. Therefore, the irish dismissed the possibility that the person he saw carrying a child could be Murat: �If it was him, I guarantee to you that I would have recognized him�.
Concerning the clothes the man he saw on that night was wearing, Smith only refers the �beige trousers�, given the fact that his upper body was hidden by the child�s body, which was not covered. It is curious that one of the elements that formed the group of Maddie�s parents� friends, guaranteed to PJ several days before Smith was heard, that - at a moment when she left the table to check on the group�s children - she had crossed ways with a man that was wearing trousers that fit the description that was also made by the irish man.
That individual was also carrying a sleeping child. And the witness, who even managed to see what pyjamas the child was wearing, just �thought it was strange that the child was barefoot and uncovered�. This witness said it would be 9.15 p.m.
Direct access to the PM
According to the course the PJ from Portimao is now conducting the investigation, and considering the trail that the british police�s cocker spaniel tracked along the sea shore, the individual would have descended to Praia da Luz, where he could have disposed of Maddie�s body. Sol knows that the english team contacted Joao Alveirinho Dias, a professor at the University of Algarve and a specialist in oceanography, in order to collect information about the sea�s dynamics and the beach area where everything may have happened. The investigator, who was not briefed about the context of the police inquiries, told Sol that he was consulted on �the sand movements, where they come from and where they go to�.
The police investigation has therefore, and according to our sources, returned to its initial course, and it becomes increasingly clear, as Sol had reported previously, that there is no proof against Murat.
Yet, the british media continue to point a finger at the anglo-portuguese man, although the criminal investigation has returned to clues that relate to the group of friends of Madeleine�s parents.
A journalist with the Daily Express � who has repeatedly contacted Sol searching for new information on this case � recognized this week that it is �difficult for an english newspaper to adopt a critical tone concerning Madeleine�s parents�.
The Daily Express cited, in one of its last reports, the news that have been published by Sol, describing them as a �hate campaign� against the McCanns. The same journalist ended up confessing that �it�s the only way we can transmit your data�.
Sol knows that Gerry McCann has regular contact with Gordon Brown, the british Prime Minister. Clarence Mitchell � who was the first spokesman for the McCanns and is now in the press cabinet at Nr. 10, Downing Street � confirms those contacts. �I know there is a communication line between Gerry and Gordon Brown. I know they talk. But I don�t know what they talk about, because those are informal conversations�, he clarified, further adding: �The Madeleine case is treated whenever there are bilateral meetings between Portugal and the United Kingdom. Gordon Brown is sensitive to the case and wants it solved quickly�.
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UK NEWSKATE AND GERRY MCCANN: SORRY
Wednesday March 19,2008
The Daily Express today takes the unprecedented step of making a front-page apology to Kate and Gerry McCann.
We do so because we accept that a number of articles in the newspaper have suggested that the couple caused the death of their missing daughter Madeleine and then covered it up.
We acknowledge that there is no evidence whatsoever to support this theory and that Kate and Gerry are completely innocent of any involvement in their daughter's disappearance.
We trust that the suspicion that has clouded their lives for many months will soon be lifted.
As an expression of its regret, the Daily Express has now paid a very substantial sum into the Madeleine Fund and we promise to do all in our power to help efforts to find her.
Kate and Gerry, we are truly sorry to have added to your distress.
We assure you that we hope Madeleine will one day be found alive and well and will be restored to her loving family.
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Isis
Please can you tell me how to post to Viv or Alsabella, I can't seem to find a way to contact them to ask them to link with me.
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