Events in History – 11th March

The Chelsea Hospital
On 11th March 1682 the Chelsea Hospital was founded by Charles II. It was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and based on the Hopital des Invalides in Paris.
On 11th March 1864 the Bradford Reservoir, near Sheffield, burst its banks and killed 250 people.
On 11th March 1988, the Bank of England one pound note [...]

Grandmother denied sight-saving drugs

On the day after we brought you the story of how Brown is prepared to throw hundreds of millions of pounds worth of taxpayers’ money into Afghanistan, we bring you the story of yet another British pensioner who has been denied sight-saving treatment on the NHS.
Margaret Coates, from Bromley, has wet age-related macular degeneration which [...]

Illegal immigrants vanish after being given free rail tickets

Nine illegal immigrants have vanished after police gave them free rail tickets and told them to make their way to a detention centre.
None of them reported at the detention centre, and disappeared on the journey between Cambridge and Cryodon.
Police said that they were merely acting on the advice of immigration officials and the decision was [...]

Pupils to swear allegiance to Queen

School leavers will be encouraged to take an oath of allegiance to the Queen and country under new proposals currently being unveiled on British citizenship.
The ceremony is the idea of ex-attorney general Lord Goldsmith, who says it would give teenagers a sense of belonging. Also proposed is a national holiday along the lines of “Australia [...]

Addicts may get lighter punishments

Now for a truly disgusting story. The British “criminal justice” system, already weighted heavily in favour of the criminal and their offensive bleating and moaning about their “human rights”, is about to get alot softer (which we at VOC did not think was possible!)
Those disgusting individuals who prey on elderly and vulnerable people, robbing them [...]