November 2022
The Pickled Parson of Sedgefield
Parson John Gamage was appointed as Rector of St Edmunds in Sedgefield back in the 1730s and took up residence in the nearby Rectory where he lived with his family. During this time, taxes were collected by the all powerful church under the watch of Prince Bishop Edward Chandler. The church would take one tenth…
The Ariel School Incident of 1994
The 16th September 1994 started out very as any other day at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. It was a private, fee-paying school and as a result most of the pupils were from well-off families. The first lesson of the day had been completed and the children had been allowed to go outside on…
Of No Defence Significance
I was recently looking for information online about the 1993 RAF Cosford incident, when I found this Freedom of Information request response from the Ministry of Defence. The defence of the nation clearly comes under the responsibility of the Ministry of Defence. The clue is in the name, yet this FoI response clearly states that…
