Theresa May’s decision was apparently taken after “carefully considering all relevant matters”.

Westminster district magistrates court cleared the way for the Sheffield Hallam University student’s extradition in January when it ruled there were no remaining statutory bars to his removal. He could face a maximum sentence of five years in jail in the US, compared with only two years in Britain.

However, on the other side of UK justice we have Abu Hamza who was jailed in 2006 for inciting murder and race hatred. Like some others, he has lived off the gratuity of British taxpayers for more than a decade, whether behind bars or out and on benefits. Because of his human rights that he may be tortured if he is sent back to his own country for trial (if he is extradited from the UK), he is still here whilst someone who may have simply been stupid by posting links to downloads will likely get sent to prison for a very long time. What do you think about this?

As the following day arrives, it is clear that something terrible has happened and the whole world has been plunged into global chaos. Within a year the world is in the grip of its deepest economic catastrophe in history, and by the end of 2013 nearly 100,000 people have already died. The world is falling apart, and it will take at least nearly two decades for the recovery to begin, if that is even possible. What do you think caused this?

Here were the questions that appear in the study costing the British taxpayer -
How happy did you feel yesterday? How anxious did you feel yesterday?  How satisfied are you with your life nowadays? What extent do you feel the things you do in your life are worthwhile?

We have ran our own poll with choices for you to make. Please vote as you see fit.

You may not have guessed it, but yes instead of concentrating (or at least finding a page closer to the headlines) about the awful and disgusting theft of Kerry Needham (Ben Needham’s mothers) laptop which contained photographs, emails and documents relating to her sons disappearance in 1991, one of the major tabloids ran a story about the RBS boss feeling bad about giving back a £1 million pound bonus!

On the flip side of the coin (and on page 26 of the same paper that featured a major headline in 2007 about missing Ben Needham), now his poor devastated mum Kerry has lost her lifeline to Ben with the theft of this laptop. It may not have a £1 million pound value(in cash or bonuses), but we are certain that Kerry and Ben could never place a pound figure on the awful theft of that computer.

We have published this story in the hope that the culprits responsible have some decency to hand the laptop they have stolen from Kerry’s home into a police station, undamaged so this mum can continue her fight to find her missing son – Ben Needham

Links for Ben Needham are:
Find Ben Needham – The official website
Ben Needham – Mum’s torment
Kerry Needham – Home burgled

Links for Stephen Hester:
RBS Boss gives up £1 million pounds bonus

This has happened because like most pensioners he receives a state benefit which is paid every 4 weeks. It so happens that his retirement payment is made the same week when K&Co expect to receive their payment on his account. Even though he says he had asked them back in 2008 to adjust the payment date, they refused to do this, and even after a recent phone call, they again said they were unable to change their payment request date.

However, that has not stopped them from charging him 33 times since July 2008 a late payment fee each time of £12. When he has made his monthly payment (for example his statement dated 19th December 2011 asks for £51.84 due by 8th January 2012) shows his previous payment having been received, but because it was late, they show a £12 charge too.

On the same statement (19th December 2011) it shows this gentleman as having Exclusive Platinum Rewards -
Goods £98.64 or Cash £78.89
But nowhere on that statement does it say or suggest that if he fails to order any goods by the end of December 2011, that he will lose all the rewards that he has accrued over the last year or so. K&Co (like most catalogue providers) have a highlight box on the front of the statements usually. On this statement issued on the 19th December 2011, the highlight box merely talks about last dates for guaranteed Christmas delivery. It was only when he telephoned K&Co today (26th January 2012) that he was told that the cut off period for the rewards had been 31st December 2o11.

His statement that he has just received in 2012 dated 14th January, now only shows £4.80, and does not state if this is goods or cash, which he assumes it will be goods.

Because his last order placed was on 11th December 2010 (which was actually a high priced item) and he had not ordered since that time, but instead responsibly paid his monthly payment, he has in his own words “had his money stolen from him”. The saddest  part of this saga is that he had also intended to order a new cooker today at £529.00, and would have used his rewards to either make a payment, or use towards the value of the cooker.

On the 9th January 2012, he made a payment of £60 in cash from his statement issued in December 2011. On his statement dated 14th January 2012, it shows the cash payment being received by K&Co on 10th January 2012, but also another late payment fee of £12 plus a £1 payment fee for using PayPoint!

When he spoke with customer services on 26th January 2012 he was told by their representative Shelley that there was nothing she could do about refunding the rewards taken, or even alter the payment date for the account. He was told he could write to K&Co but to expect it to take anything up to 4 weeks to get a response, which hardly was surprising since it took more than 10 minutes to get through on the phone, and navigate the automated system there.

The address for written communication to K&Co he was given was:
Sandringham House, Sandringham Avenue, CHELMSFORD, CM92 1LJ

Would someone from K&Co care to respond?

Links that you may like to visit:
K&Co Rewards – The small print

Dead Blackbirds – Arkansas Times
Blackbirds fall dead from sky – The Mirror

Perhaps when the Mayan culture predicted a time of change, they were actually referring to events that would unfold, not at the hands of a powerful god, but of man himself. Albeit the prophecy seems to suggest that a Mayan God, Bolon Yokte, will return to Earth on that date. As a God of creation and war people must “prepare the ground” for his arrival, or so the prophecy goes. Come with us on a day by day countdown and see what happens, and why not all things in life are that good, nor do they have to necessarily be bad. As we say:

Sometimes shit just happens

The sad truth is that there is no definitive answer as to why this happens, and even if there was, what could have been different that perhaps made the person think there was perhaps a way out. If you are feeling like this, then some links that may help are the Samaritans, a non profit organisation with dedicated professionals who can help, just talk with you, and offer you an answer in your troubled times. There is no need for you to suffer in silence, and if this post just helps one person, then it has helped them for a life time.