The Madeleine McCann Location Device And Finding Brand And Ross
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HALIFAX EVENING COURIER: “Child-tracking device gives parents holiday peace of mind”
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
AN enterprising duo are to rent out child tracking devices and satellite navigation systems to holidaymakers at an airport. Friends David Molloy and Tony Waite, both born and raised in Halifax, have set up Stressless Journeys Ltd.
Stress free… Where do we sign for our bottle of Calpol/gin/valium?
Inside every tragedy there’s a marketing opportunity waiting to get out. Just ask Jennifer Hudson…
To Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport, where Dave and Tone are spreading the fear, and making a handy profit…
David said: “This brings piece of mind. It sets a virtual boundary for your kids. You are immediately alerted – when it starts bleeping they need to come back. We’re aiming at the travel market so the natural step was to go to an airport.”
If only…
He said the case of missing toddler Madeleine McCann had increased parents’ fears about their children’s safety while abroad and this was the ideal solution.
Kerching!!!
THE PRESS (York): “A prank too far this time”
“HERE’S one way to write a newspaper column. Pick your topic, work out what everyone thinks and then say the exact opposite, just for the sake of being contrary,” writes Julian Cole
But keep it legal. Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross were crude but broke no laws…
Here’s a thing. Some of the papers screaming about Brand and Ross recently had to pay out damages to friends of the McCann family.
Bingo! Here’s how to write a column: make mention of Madeleine McCann and fill in the blanks with any players in the current big story.
Express Newspapers agreed to pay £375,000 in libel damages to the so-called “Tapas Seven”, the friends of Kate and Gerry McCann who were with the couple in Portugal when Madeleine McCann disappeared.
This was on top of the £550,000 the Express has already paid out to the McCanns themselves.
All true…
The journalism professor Brian Cathcart, writing in New Statesman, refers to “the great balloon of speculative nonsense that was the McCann story” and the way certain newspapers used their power to kill discussion of how this story was mishandled in sections of the press.
So here’s your chance to investigate, Mr Cole…
This seems about right to me, and while the Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross story is a mere distraction by comparison – even if Gordon Brown has found time to weigh in – it does remind us that some national newspapers rush to pillory people in the public eye with shameless enthusiasm, while preferring not to look at their own behaviour.
Should all newspapers come with an apology, a column that lists all the errors made? Yeah, a column – over to you…
THE RESIDENT (Portugal): “Integrity of G. Amaral questioned in police brutality case”
LAWYERS WILL be questioning the integrity of Gonçalo Amaral during the current court hearing of the alleged police torture of Leonor Cipriano, the mother of missing girl Joana, who disappeared in 2004 from Figueira near Portimão
They believe it to be an integral part of the trial to demonstrate the character of the former lead detective in the subsequent case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
Meanwhile back at the airport…
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November 1st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I just don’t understand why anyone goes to a funeral incognito.
M and A
I don’t either, but if a person makes such a remark on a public forum, they could clarify or retract
November 1st, 2008 at 1:14 am
How long has Yoda been posting
October 31st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Watcher,
Why do not you reduce yourself to your own insignificance instead insult people?
October 31st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Watcher, do you really think you’re funny
Not.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Any news?
It will take a long time before somebody makes a mistake or decides to talk.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Celebrity, my arse, she was probably had a quickie with the deceased and the wife was looking for her with a Kalashnikov.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Coco-why would you need to go incognito to a funeral-straight question-are you a celebrity? i would have expected all the attention to be on the deceased or next of kin.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Good night Chatelaine, happy Toussaint xx
October 31st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
No Halloween-ers here.
But dogs starting to protest that’s taking me so long to come to the kitchen.
So: over and out
October 31st, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Chatelaine there are strange things happening!
I don’t know how you get those quiet moments with dogs in the kitchen. Our dog is going mad tonight because of all the Hallowe’eners tripping around and the cat won’t come out of the bushes while they are about.
I suppose you are fortunate that Hallowe’en is not so celebraed in France, depending on where you are of course.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Montaillou. Yes, Jo’s been missing for a while. May I add to that, that just before retreating to the peaceful “with dogs in the kitchen” moment just now, I was replaying the BBC Radio 4 “Woman’s Hour” of 100 days MM missing. Only to find out that [apart from the 1st few minutes] the whole programme’s gone missing …
October 31st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
It’s not only a question of looking for Brand and Ross, whom I for one wouldn’t want to go looking for anyway, but did you know that PJ Reis, great publisher of restrcted info (allegedly), has gone walkabout, possibly to Macau, in mysterious circs, having (allegedly) been threatened by a certain quite well known law firm??
And while we are on the subject dare I ask what happened toJo, did she get fed up, get banned, go on holiday? I haven’t seen her elsewhere, or at least not under that name.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I’ll go back to a peaceful “with dogs in the kitchen” moment.
Ring the alarm, if anything’s happening here. Otherwise, Good night
October 31st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Let’s shake hands then. Never a dull moment here
[and the end s not in sight...]
October 31st, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Evening Chatelaine, don’t worry, I can confuse anyone at will, or even not at will. It’s been a long hard week and another one to go next week. Bu the end is in sight.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Good evening, Montaillou. You got me confused for a bit …
October 31st, 2008 at 8:52 pm
And even more sorry, I meant Coco. Good evening Clouseau. xxx
October 31st, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Clouseau so sorry about your friend. xx
October 31st, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Good evening Coco. I presumed from another site that you might need some comfort today. Now I understand. May I please hug you too?
October 31st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
evening all….av I mised anyfink?
October 31st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Come come! We have always made loads of room for alll kinds of bollocks on here.
October 31st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
A “load”???
Perhaps I have been too hasty!
JK; yes, that’s exactly what I’m suggesting.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Pamela Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Pamela Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Let’s stop talking about Garth’s testes and move along, shall we? I am MOST anxious to hear someone’s carefully considered opinion on the intelligent, objective bit of utter bullshit on JoMo, comparing the prosecution of five Portugese police with the war in Iraq, maintenance of the prison at Gitmo, and Napoleonic destruction of an obscure city?
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Are you actually saying that we ought to stop talking about one load of bollox and start talking about another?
October 31st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Thanks Pamela. X
She was only 41 and had fought cancer for five years solidly.
I am bereft but keep thinking of all the mad things we have done.
She once drove me to a funeral of another dear friend who was only 43 when he died- in 2005.
So that nobody would recognise me or the car - I had to sit in the back seat of her car wrapped up in a great big card-board box and peep out through some bubble-wrap.
It was absolutely hysterical - but you had to be there. We saw everything except the actual service!
We knew everything about who arrived first and who with etc - but nobody ever knew what we had done.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
ooh you little monkey……
October 31st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Let’s stop talking about Garth’s testes and move along, shall we? I am MOST anxious to hear someone’s carefully considered opinion on the intelligent, objective bit of utter bullshit on JoMo, comparing the prosecution of five Portugese police with the war in Iraq, maintenance of the prison at Gitmo, and Napoleonic destruction of an obscure city?
Are we still pretending that her’s is a site for sane people?
And about EK: what happened? They didn’t find what they’d hoped in the first fifty pages, so they just stopped?
October 31st, 2008 at 5:42 pm
shrivelled fruit of his loins more apt
October 31st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
rasputin , there is much worse to come for mcscum !
October 31st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
coco Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Sorry Pammy! Read Macon as Maine!
I am disturbed today. My jolly good friend of 25 years died last night and my head is up my arse.
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Are you getting shit faced?
October 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Oi! I’ll interpret it how I like it.
Remember! This is anorak.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Coco,
I am sorry for the loss of your friend.