Having had the dream start to the Malaysian F1 the Maclaren team have moved into a nightmare. Hamilton had a terrible pit stop and rejoined the race behind Alonso and then Button has a collision and has to pit for a new nose. How fortunes can change.
Month: March 2012
Racing Restarting
Hooray, here we go. The race is up for grabs once again
Malaysian F1 – Cars on the move again
At last the cars are rolling again albeit behind the Safety Car. Lets hope we get back to racing really soon.
Malaysian F1 is Red Flagged
And the race comes to a halt. Charlie Whiting has made the right decision given the conditions. Let’s hope this is not another 4 hour stint.
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Time To Get Some Brekky
30 minutes behind the Safety Car is the prediction so time to go get some breakfast.
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Like A Lake Say’s Button
Jensen Button describes the adverse conditions as todays F1 is put under Safety Car control.
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Grossjean Out
Grossjeans Malaysian F1 expedition was shorylived, just 3 laps. A second spin proving to be terminal as he ended up in the gravel.
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And They’re Off
The Malaysian F1 gets underway, relatively event free, on a damp circuit. Schumy and Grossjean appear to have made contact and both spun but both survived.
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Media Guidence
It is a shame that these guidelines aren’t being adhered to today. Great to see this. Sentiments such as these should be hammered into every journo’s subconcious. The company that I work for makes all employees read and signup to a basic set of “Business Conduct Guidlines” annually. Keeps us clean.
In 1966-7 my Dad got a job as a young reporter for the Daily Mail’s Manchester office, just as it was made Newspaper of the Year. All staff received the memo below from editor Mike Randall.
When Dad sent it to me, he added: “Mike Randall left the paper soon afterwards. It became a tabloid and in ethical terms its downhill slide began. However, I think Randall’s statement still stands as the model of propriety to which all journalists working for all media should aspire.”
I couldn’t agree more – and it’s certainly how I’d hope people expect writers to behave. I’d add though that in the 15 years I’ve been writing, I haven’t noticed nearly as much awareness of the dangers of libel, sensationalism and indiscretion in young journos as was drilled into [my generation of] pre-internet trainees. I don’t think Twitter and the pressure of instant comment helps…
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Queen Alexandra Hospital parking charges increase comes under fire
Carillion are making money hand over fist with the contract that they negotiated with the QA authorities. I was told that the money they collect doesn’t even go into the hospital coffers, is just a contributor to Carillions £212m profits for 2011.
If that is true then it is obscene.
We, the great British taxpayer, who fund the NHS in general and the QA in particular. Most people don’t visit a hospital out of choice. It is usually because we have a health problem or to visit a friend or relative who has a health problem. Yet when we do have to visit a hospital we are fleeced.
Only this week I was talking with a neighbour, whose wife had been in the QA for six weeks pneumonia. He was paying over £8 pounds a day in parking charges.
That is criminal.
My wife works at the QA and she cannot afford to park on site as the parking charges exceed her pay which is why I take her to and from work each day. Yes she can use the staff Park and Ride but the car park on the hill is not very nice, especially during the winter when the paths and steps are icy.
Queen Alexandra Hospital parking charges increase comes under fire – Local Health – The News.
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