Manchester police chief Michael Todd found dead: international media mentions CIA extradition inquiries, BBC doesn't?

damn

So what are saying? His report was widely reported as being a whitewash wasn't it?

I mean who would benefit from pushing him off a cliff? Liberty?

Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of London

If you want to start a conspiracy theory going try and find a link between him and Camilla's head of security who shot himself a couple of days ago...(twilight zone music).

Shouldn't satire contain at least some elements of funny? :-/

There as mention on this morning's news that a national tabloid newspaper was on the verge of "blowing the whistle" on something in his personal life, and that he was "leading a separate life" up in Manchester while his family lived in Nottingham. The whistle-blowing must surely be more than the fact he was just having an affair with someone (not an uncommon thing, sadly) so it begs the question who he was shacking up with.

so why would Liberty benefit? Does he own Selfridges?

xxpost prince harry polishing his rifle is funny though

There as mention on this morning's news that a national tabloid newspaper was on the verge of "blowing the whistle" on something in his personal life, and that he was "leading a separate life" up in Manchester while his family lived in Nottingham. The whistle-blowing must surely be more than the fact he was just having an affair with someone (not an uncommon thing, sadly) so it begs the question who he was shacking up with.

http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2008-03/36604631.jpg

so why would Liberty benefit? Does he own Selfridges?

No, but Shami Chakrabarti better have an alibi this morning.

"When politicians spin it is disappointing. When police engage in the same activity it is rather more dangerous..."

Not my words...hers.

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Mr Todd's body was carried down from the mountain despite poor weather conditions.
...

"Winds on the mountain were blowing at 80 knots and were blowing directly in the faces of the guys, who also faced intermittent snow showers.

yes *they're* the people suffering in all this.

and yeah wtf at saying this,
Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of London

We'll just have to wait for the David Peace novel to find out the truth.

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American: "You're English? That's ossum. Where in England are you from?"
Me: "Bath, it's in the South West."
American: "Ossum. Is that near London?"
Me: "No, it's..... (weary) yes."

Bless 'em.

I believe Ossum is a small hamlet somewhere near Peterborough.

Most people from London have no sense of the UK outside the M25, so why should the Merkins?

Londoner: where you from then?
Me: Hull
Londoner: wessat 'en?
Me: Yorkshire. East. Big river. Bridge. Rugby League.
Londoner: (adopts West Country accent) ooh thay orl speak loik thart up tharr

Peterborough, 86 miles north of London.

Alaska, 4000 miles north-west of New York

Things which irritate me in newspapers part 349378429: references in articles and columns such as "Holloway Road, north London" or "Acton, west London" like they're so easy to mix up with e.g. Holloway Road in Stornoway.

Belgium. Near Brussels.

xpost I wouldn't know Holloway Road was in North London unless stated or obvious from the context.

Londoner: where you from then?
Me: Hull
Londoner: wessat 'en?
Me: Yorkshire. East. Big river. Bridge. Rugby League.
Londoner: (adopts West Country accent) ooh thay orl speak loik thart up tharr

"Snowdonia, about 20 miles south of Conway"

At least you're not from a town regularly referred to as being in "the North", despite being a whole 40 minutes drive from London

Northampton tho. the clue is in the name.

North Acton. In the North.

Northacton would have the same problem.

North Acton is the West Country, fewls

Where they all speak with Yorkshire accents, right?

No, that's in Hull.

Look FFS journalistic conventions state you still need to refer to Gordon Brown as 'the Prime Minister' in articles so explaining where Holloway Effing Road is to the majority of the UK who don't know and previously didn't care is not that big a deal.

Well said, Matt DC, ilxor.com moderator.

At least you're not from a town regularly referred to as being in "the North", despite being a whole 40 minutes drive from London

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 11:54 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I used to get people asking me why South Shields wasn't in the south of England!

What I used to get "your accent is really hard to understand, are you from Wales?" WTF.

Oh come on, it cuts both ways! I would like all these 50p pieces for each time I have been asked if they do the Indy 500 in my hometown of MINNEapolis.

"Wales, near Liverpool, north-west England."

is northampton near snowdonia?

About a 100 foot fall off a cliff from it

Northampton, east-middle England, is the birthplace of eighties Goth, early eighties musical and fashion movement, group Bauhaus, whose biggest hit was a cover version of "Ziggy Stardust" written by David Bowie, musician.

...and 'promoted' quite heavily as the Murder Mecca of the Midlands by Bauhaus in MM/NME features.

Northampton, east-middle England [citation needed], is the birthplace of eighties Goth [citation needed], early eighties musical and fashion movement [citation needed], group Bauhaus, whose biggest hit [citation needed] was a cover version of "Ziggy Stardust" written by David Bowie, musician. [citation needed]

I wikified it for you :-)

A post mortem examination on police chief Michael Todd, whose body was found in Snowdonia, has failed to reveal an obvious cause of death.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1308956,00.html

It's all "nearby London" to us, you can drive across England in the same time some people take to commute to work in the tri-state area. Engerland, so quaint and small!

Laurel otm. Channel to the end of Scotland is like driving from North Jersey to Bangor right?

From the most northerly latitude (Scottish border) to the most southerly latitude (Channel) England is around 620km in length.

Elizabeth NJ to Bangor, Maine: 742 km – about 7 hours 52 mins

i wanna hear pashmina's voice

Lands End to John O'Groats is 25 hours if you drive non-stop

David Cameron, comedian, recently paid a visit to Paris, near London, where he shared an extremely risque joke about immigration with Nicholas Sarkozy, crazy clown.

Just because the distances look really close on a map doesn't mean that they don't take a very long time to cross. The UK, especially England, is very deceptive like that. Once you get sucked into the gravity well of the M25 or the M62 you are lost.

So basically it's like Pennsylvania.

lololololol

Worriesome texts, a bottle of spirits next to him, a history of depression...

Because your country sucks!

The M62 isn't bad! You can drive its length in a couple of hours. Why you'd want to I'm not sure, but you can.

He sent out "worrying text messages"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7292662.stm

omg. roid rage, then

"He was just a copper's cop. He wanted to get out there, he wanted to feel people's collars, he got out there in the thick of it,"

what kind of disturbing fetish is that? collarfeeler creep!

Don't you ever watch The Sweeney? All coppers talk like that, 'ere son, shut it, you're nicked! er, etc....

He didn't like the way "Ashes to Ashes" was panning out.

Oh - didn't know that, never watched The Sweeney, no :-/

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Despite having 27 bullet holes in his head and multiple bone fractures and severe bodily bruising consistent with having been chucked off the top of Snowdonia, police have been unable to determine an obvious cause of death.

Can CONTROVERSIAL EIGHTIES MANC COP JAMES ANDERTON account for his whereabouts at the time of terrified Todd's tossing off?

Despite having 27 bullet holes in his head and multiple bone fractures and severe bodily bruising consistent with having been chucked off the top of Snowdonia, police have been unable to determine an obvious cause of death.

YEAH BUT DON'T YOU SEE, HIS MEDICAL RECORDS SAYS THAT HE USES A PACEMAKER, AND WHERE IS THE PACEMAKER??? DON'T YOU SEE SAM!

-- Quincy, M.E., Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:00 AM (1 second ago) Bookmark link

He killed himself using a murderer.

http://carlosgc.linups.org/img/mortal-kombat-2.png

Gerry Marsden, leader of Gerry and the Pacemakers, pop group of the sixties, decade in between the fifties and the seventies, was unavailable for comment.

The Met Office confessed to bafflement at the presence of a grassy knoll in snowbound Snowdonia.

Latest keywords: Sunday newspaper, expose, Max Clifford, imminent, apparently.

Michael Todd used to attend Gay Pride marches. Maybe he was killed by an angry lesbian.

Je also wrote the report on CIA Extraordinary Renditon in the UK.

So what are saying? His report was widely reported as being a whitewash wasn't it?

I am simply saying that it seems odd that not a single newspaper report has mentioned this, the last major thing he did in his career as a policeman. It's like Alistair Darling being found dead and no-one mentioning he'd just done his first budget.

One of the lovers, apparently - doesn't look like a man to me, but what do I know

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03/mikeangie_175x125.jpg

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=117864&in_page_id=34

I mean who would benefit from pushing him off a cliff? Liberty?

He lost out in a three way "Lindsay, Britney, Michael: Shag Marry Throw off a cliff" poll.

There is the theory of the moebius...

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