Closing Windows on Smoking

I have 37 tabs and windows open on Firefox, mainly of stories I was intending to write about, so I will start with the smoking ones…
This item is simply incredible: Police roadblocks are being set up to catch drivers who are breaking the law – by smoking at the wheel of their company vehicle.
Council wardens [...]

A tale of two charities: The Intercom Trust and ASH

Two posts ago, I wrote about Chris Grayling’s comment that B&B owners should be allowed to choose who stays in their premises. Leg-iron left a link to a hotel in Blackpool which is only open to homosexual men. He went on to blog about it himself.
I left a rather lengthy comment on Leggy’s blog comparing [...]

Smoked out, locked up

Leg-iron reports on the first publican to be jailed for allowing his customers to light up.
Nick Hogan, 43, from Lancashire, was sentenced to six months in prison for repeatedly refusing to pay a fine imposed for flouting the legislation.
As Leg-iron says,
In this wonderful free country where everyone has the choice to do as they are [...]