A  few more newslinks taken from the past couple of weeks of figuring out whats going on in the world.

Starting locally and taken from the Donaster Free Press, Mayor in vote of no confidence apart from the occasional more interesting than usual headline (Fury as mayor claims UK could learn from Taliban) it is sometime hard to see any difference in the council from the squabbling and infighting that’s been going on for years.

A slightly interesting piece from the BBC In Paris, the customer is not always right, too right they aren’t, though there’s probably some happy medium to be found. One of the major points of pharmacy is that a pharmacist and their staff are obliged to ensure the patient is only sold medication that is appropriate and suitable for them (hence the usual barrage of questions that accompany the most innocent seeming of purchaces). It is unfortunate that the press and consumer magazines seem to always be able to find the pharmacies that aren’t carrying out their professional duties that diligently. Then again, what sort of news story would ‘Pharmacies sell medicine correctly’ make? But this does mean that every now and again the pharmacist has to refuse to sell a medicine to someone because its not actually appropriate. It’s disappointing, to put it mildly, that a large number of the general public have fallen for the brainwashing that they must have everything that they want NOW, AND OF COURSE THEY’RE RIGHT etc etc.  whether it’s their McDonalds Happy Meal or their 20 item prescription.

Let’s disappear from the surface of the planet for a moment and head out to space and what the Hubble Space Telescope is looking at for a nice picture to ease the tension and get all nice and relaxed and happy again.

And to finish off, a trio of slightly more unusual news stories taken from the daily telegraph. Hidden fire chokes last life from US ghost town, I’m sure theres a computer game series and film with part of that as the background, underground fires which are really the fires of hell/another dimension/something like that.

Scientists discover the burglar’s trainer of choice, I would have thought the burglar discovered it first, not the scientists.. and Swiss prostitutes trained to use defibrillators in brothels to prevent clients dying. Not only is clients having heart attacks ‘bad for business’ (possibly good for reputation?) but it also tends to reduce returning customers.