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Lone Star Comedy, now with added German standup

The line up consists of Henning Wehn, Liam Mullone, Jim Smallman and a newcomer�s act.Henning Wehn is the German Comedy Ambassador to the UK. He calmly and clinically debunks the idea that Germans do not have a sense of humour.Henning does this by ...
Rated 5.28/10 on Folkestone Gerald

RE: House hunt

I like the "not slanderous at all" $10 note comment. That coupled with a picture of the premises in question would never get you into trouble ;) Lovely looking building though - much nicer from the outside than the second one.You like that there Waga...

Folkestone camera club update

On 30th March was our 5th digital image competition of the season when our members learn from the judges comments, tips, advice and experience. Our judge was Mr Dave Mason who came to us from Woolwich, a very experienced photographer, and his results...

Mr Gordon Brown refused my demand to abolish religious mythology in schools

Well fancy that. Do you think that one day a boy will ever be born who can swim faster than a shark one of these petitions will provoke anything other than a dismissal? We received a petition asking: "We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister...

Give Brucie a Knighthood

Sign this petition to give Bruce Forsyth a knighthood. Why's he been overlooked all this time?

RE: These are 'official' petitions

Its good. Click on info' and comms'.I have signed quite a few

These are 'official' petitions

They will be noticed and commented on (if they get more than a certain number of signatures, which I think this one has already), even if not actually replied to.

Bank Holiday

Number 10 Downing Street has approved a petition that was requesting a new public holiday falling on the Monday after Remembrance Sunday in November each year. To be known as the National Remembrance Holiday, it's purpose is threefold:1. To emphasi...

RE: Scrap the licence fee

Tosh.So a company they use to make programs spiced up a show, it's hardly earth shattering. And so they messed up a couple of competitions - the technology for those things is quite flakey and no-one was hugely out of pocket like they were on Richard...

Scrap the licence fee

The BBC are a bit annoying at the moment aren't they? If they're not punking the the queen with crazy video pranks, they're ripping off the public with phoney competitions. Why not get rid of the licence fee, and replace it with a subscription for BB...

Folkestone Camera Club

If this site had a clubs and societies section, stuff like this would definitely be in it:Monday 14th May saw Mr John Butler ARPS DPAGB APAGB, returning to judge our 6th and final print competition of the season. With his usual expertise, and hints a...

Wagamama today

Going to spend a fairly lazy day around the pubs of Canterbury, starting with a lunch at Wagamama, and HEY, we got a voucher: That's from this feature that a friend alerted us to, we'd be going there today anyway though, nice.Had a good week, felt bu...
Rated 7.77/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Competition Crazy

Working on my competition script today to make sure it's up to speed, have had a couple of competitions this week, and am sending out an extra mail to promote this one for Journey Shoes / Electric Soft Parade, got one pair of shoes and five pairs of ...

106 Hell

Got to start this week with a big hinge, JOY of a journey in this morning, it seems the 106 has been diverted away from it's normal diversion so now it doesn't go past Stoke Newington station or along our bit of Manor Road at all. But there have been...

AC/DC Competition!

To celebrate the re-launch of the Carling Apollo Hammersmith as one of London's largest live music venues, AC/DC will be playing an extremely rare and exclusive gig on Tuesday 21st October 2003.For one night only, Carling will be bringing Angus Young...

Competition winners

Phil Hucknall just won a bundle of Vex Red vinyl and CDs in one of our Five Night Stand Competitions, by correctly guessing that YES, Cooper Temple Clause would actually play the gig last Thursday night.52% of you thought they'd do the gig, 48% of yo...

Win an actual prize

Lordy, haven't had a competition for a while, so how about this new Shanks and Bigfoot white label for starters?They've recorded it under the name "Doolally", not sure if I was supposed to say that, but it's "rarer than a really rare set of hen's tee...

Les Carter, Les Paul, Tres Generous

Big shouts out to Abdoujaparov and valued punter Des Wiltshire, for generosity above and beyond...Des is so excited that Fruity is donating his Les Paul (that's a guitar) from his Carter USM days to the Essex Council Youth Service "Rock School" proje...