Mail gets knickers in flap. Scott celebrates second day of NYE hangover.
Outrage as publicity-mad chief constable says ‘ecstasy is safer than aspirin’<<Notorious chief constable Richard Brunstrom is facing demands to resign after publicly claiming that the illegal rave drug ecstasy is safer than aspirin.
In his latest bizarre proclamation, he insisted that the drug – which claims almost 50 lives a year – was a “remarkably safe substance”.
And he went on to dismiss what he called “scaremongering” over the dangers, while predicting that all drugs would be legalised within ten years.
The comments from the gaffe-prone head of the North Wales force infuriated the families of youngsters who died after taking ecstasy.
Des Delaney, whose 18-year-old daughter Siobhan was killed by a single pill at a nightclub two years ago, said Mr Brunstrom “should go and stand by my daughter’s grave every week and see how he feels”. >>
Well. Firstly, I have no idea how they can claim it kills almost 50 people a year when there’ve only been 80 deaths in the UK attributed to it in the last 10 years. Secondly, between 1993 and 2004, a comparable time frame, over 450 people died f[...]s of aspirin poisoning — perhaps they should consider training their journalists better...
Pics up on flickr of the new year fireworkses. – was interesting, but we were clearly in entirely the wrong place. And we were waaay too early, leading to us standing in the rain for 2 hours, bored. Got home and drank champagne/beer until 10am Saturday. Woops.
So all in all a very quiet new year 😊
Seeing Liam on Saturday, can’t wait 😁
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