Jul/090
Last surviving veteran of WW1 dies
Harry Patch, Britain’s last veteran of World War One died this weekend at the age of 111. He died at home in Somerset. His death came only a week after another remaining survivor. Only Claude Choules remains as the sole British-Born survivor who resides in Australia.
Patch, who was conscripted at 18 years old in 1917 fought in Ypres on the Western Front and in the in the battle of Passchendaele. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and General Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of General staff paid tribute to Patch noting his nobility and generosity in teaching school children the atrocities of war. Patch was quoted as saying “War isn’t worth one life”- Reuters UK. He outlived both his wives and two sons in his long life.
Jul/090
LaToya Jackson on Michael Jackson’s ‘Murder’
Many of us have seen in the past week or so LaToya Jackson weeping over the front pages of our newspapers. We read the heartbreaking tales of times gone by but the story/claim LaToya made about her brother Michael Jackson being murdered made a lot of people throughout the UK think sinister thoughts.
However, the Daily Mail claims LaToya was not only paid for the interview but was also told beforehand that she had to include a ’sensational’ element to her story. CNN originally broke the news that LaToya was paid for the story but were unaware that she was asked to include the claim that her brother was murdered. The Daily Mail reporter describe LaToya as ‘candid’.
LaToya who is now 53, was a Playboy model in the early 1990’s after being disowned from her family for claiming Michael acted in an unacceptable way with children. There were strong rumours that she was paid for that story as well which adds further weight to the suggestion that she was paid for this latest accusation.
“I believe Michael was murdered, I felt that from the start,” the Mail quoted LaToya as saying over the weekend. “Not just one person was involved; rather it was a conspiracy of people.”
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