Santa Maria Disaster

Belated though this is, my thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to those who lost their lives in the nightclub in Santa Maria.
The horrific scenes of escape attempts are truly hallowing, and for those who survived, that night will most likely stay with them forever.
I also offer my condolences to the families of those 231 young lives, who must be going through such hell at losing someone who had so much more life to give.

As someone who has recently reached clubbing age myself, with many friends who are students, it is very frightening to see such things, and how easily they happened.

Tighter fire regulations have been called for in Brazil, and I believe this should apply worldwide too. One extra fire door could have saved so many of those lives.

Rest in Peace.

Snow Fun

How is it that on a week in which it snows in the UK there appears to be no other news. Leading up to the appointed day of snow there is major focus on the weather reports, often as the main story, followed up with reports from gritting depots, will there be enough? Will it be gritted in time?

Once it snows we get the constant report after report on traffic disruption, snowfall region by region and the mandatory 'cute' pictures of children in the snow, snowmen and pets struggling with the weather.

Do we not have anything better to talk about? Is there not more important world news stories going on? If they reported to this extent every time it snowed in countries such as Finland they would not get round to anything else. This weather is not headline news. Maybe it could be the third or fourth piece, but should we not be focusing more on the Armenian hostage situation, or Lance Armstrong's prolific drug taking, even the devastating fire at my local pub.

Sorry to be a bah humbug but snow should not take a priority over actual life and death.