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Have started the third Rumpole of the Bailey book - taken from a single 1980 TV post-Christmas special - and three chapters in Rumpole has retired and is living in Florida with Russell Brand’s grieving wife and kids. This is not as advertised.
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For the third time I’ve done my longer walk to Morrisons, a new diversion through Unsworth, and measuring it I find that it only takes my journey there from 1.1 miles to 1.9 miles, but with more hills and views, so a three-mile round trip is just a bonus mile. I hope it helps.
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LAST NIGHT’S MURDER DOCUMENTARY saw the trial of Steven Wright, known as the Suffolk Strangler, who was convicted by a load of circumstantial evidence of murdering sex workers Anneli Alderton, Paula Clennell, Gemma Adams, Tania Nicol and Annette Nicholls.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgj…
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The defence was that Wright knew all 5 women, had all of them in his car (just before their murder), had sex with 4 of them (just before their murder), and how he did all that - which is why his DNA was found prominently on 3 of the bodies, but he just didn’t do the killing bit.
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Had a spy dream where under the nose of those investigating a murder (maybe in Russia) I had to access the corpse, who was in a coffin, and lean in to solve a Wordle by pressing all the letters at once with stretched fingers. I don’t know what this means but the answer was BRUNT.
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LAST NIGHT’S MURDER DOCUMENTARY saw city banker (not a euphemism) Darren Byrne of Theydon Bois, Essex, return home from a morning dog walk to find his wife Maria both dead AND ON FIRE in the kitchen which he put down to simply being one of those bizarre cooking accidents.
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With Maria on the kitchen table, children’s chairs piled on top, these efforts failed to produce a bonfire. Despite the charred table he then arranged her body on the floor, dropped the wok, and got the bacon out of the fridge. Not even Columbo could have seen through this.
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However, Essex Police did. It makes you wonder what part nominative determinism had to play in Byrne’s actions.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-es…
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The final episode of #VisionQuest did the old Jewish joke about one old lady complaining about the food at some place and a second lady agreeing with her before adding “and such small portions”. Is it specifically Jewish? I don’t know.
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LAST NIGHT’S MURDER DOCUMENTARY saw 1995 schoolgirl Naomi Smith of the small community of Ansley Common, Nuneaton, bitten before having her throat cut on a dark playground she was lured to down a ginnel after she just popped out to post a letter.
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With the CATCHEM database (Centralised Analytical Team Collating Homicide Expertise and Management), which logged every child murder since 1960, with 35 years of info it said that the killer would be a teen acquaintance who lived no more than half a mile away.
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They thought they could predict murderers. Meanwhile teen acquaintance Edwin Hopkins, who lived less than half a mile away, was unassuming with interests of Trivial Pursuit, crisps, and knives/machetes. Unassuming apart from his large collection of knives.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c842…
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Letting my parents tour a supermarket on their own is dangerous and they ended up taking photos of the Lemon Chicken Sauce, because the jars have been redesigned, and when they got back and asked which brand it was that we have I foolishly said Mr Benn’s.
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