Alternative Lifestyle Magazine: Anger over 'ugly Valley' slur
ROSSENDALE'S MP has reacted angrily to claims that the Valley is among one of the worst places to live in the country.Alternative lifestyle magazine The Idler has named 20 towns in Britain considered to be the most boring, ugly and depressing places in the country, with Bacup and Todmorden being nominated on their website.The magazine is set to launch a book dubbed: "the Doomsday Book of Misery" with the top 50 worst towns being named.But...
Alternative Lifestyle Magazine: Remembering AIDS victims different ways
No words were needed. The astonished look said it all. The retiree approached the community information booth at Gulfview Square mall and picked up a small square of paper with a safety pin and red ribbon attached.The slip of paper asked people to wear the ribbon over their heart and explained why.The woman examined it momentarily."You can wear the ribbon," urged Barbara Cushman. "It's for AIDS awareness."...
Alternative Lifestyle Magazine: Daily Mail: Healer who became the killer of his dream girl
AN African healer yesterday admitted killing his British wife within weeks of their wedding.Former teacher Linda MacDonald, 53, met Hibiekoun Hien during a trip to his tribal village, where he was a respected spiritual healer. After the marriage, they set up home together in the UK, but Hien struggled to settle in to his new life and became depressed.Just two months later, he battered the mother-of-two to death at their home in Buckfastleigh, Devon.Yesterday the 53-year- old...
Alternative Lifestyle Magazine: Sunday Star Times:
Selection not election the way of the future
Since the last election I've been thinking deeply about the voting system. I've come to the conclusion it's wrongly designed for the electronic age. I'd like to advocate a different electoral process I'm calling "push-button politics".Basically, you get called up as an MP in exactly the same way as you're called for jury service. You qualify by right of residency and rationality. That means no...
Alternative Lifestyle Magazine: Western Daily Press: Meeting was 'foretold'
Just weeks before she was killed by her husband, Linda Hien wrote about how she fell in love with him after travelling to his native country of Burkina Faso to learn more about African tribal beliefs.Writing for an alternative lifestyle magazine, Linda described meeting Hien, a shaman, known as a witch doctor in the West, in Dano, his home village. She was evidently transfixed by his healing talents and his avowal that he had foreseen that he would one day meet a woman from the West. She...