I am reviewing the movie Flight which is an excellent film. It stars Denzel Washington as an airline pilot with a drink problem who stole and consumed a bottle of vodka during a flight. He admits falling asleep briefly during the flight & the aileron cable snapped during the flight causing the plane to go into a dive and somehow he landed it and some of the passengers survived. The fact that he was intoxicated hasn't contributed to the crash but they have blood samples from all the crew and noticed the bottle of vodka has gone missing. His girlfriend who was also an airhostess on the flight was also intoxicated and has a cocaine and heroin habit. His blood sample is declared void but they find out she was intoxicated and it looks like she will get the blame for the bottle of vodka. Not to mention she owes a lot of money owed for the drugs she's used. There's a happy ending in the sense he is starting to sort himself out. Also he has an estranged exwife and son and they patch things up. There's also a nice performance by John Goodman as a drug dealer. Denzel is great in it as well.

This is some of the news as featured in the Times newspaper. Scottish ministers have been told they must publish information on which fish farms shoot seals & how many are shot. Apparently they tried to keep it quiet.
In Midhurst, West Sussex traders are printing their own currency in an attempt to try and help the local economy. The currency can be used throughout January. Over 30 businesses have signed up.
2 pandas at Edinburgh are celebrating their first anniversary together and apparently they have had to synchronize the lights with the daylight in an attempt to try and get them to mate.
The Dandy having reached its 75th anniversary is going out of print this week. There is a last edition going out on tuesday & it will include a copy of the first edition. It will continue as an online cartoon though.

I'm going to read a newspaper every day and do a post about what was in the news. This post is yesterdays news and I live in the UK so obviously it will mostly be the news in Britain. The newspaper I read was the Sunday People. Saturday was a funny day in the Soccer Premiership with many of the top sides struggling in what should have been easy matches. Arsenal were beaten 2-0 by Swansea. Chelsea the current european champions were beaten 3-1 by West Ham. Man Utd beat Reading 4-3 but made a lot of defensive mistakes which meant they had to work for their victory.

In China believe it or not there is a house in the middle of a highway. They were meant to demolish the 5 storey building but the owner refused the compensation he was offered and while it went to court chinese law forbade them from demolishing it. There has been a lot of publicity for this case in China & the owner disliked it so accepted the £25,000 he was offered.

On the front page is a story of a young lady who was drugged and raped and leud photographs were taken by her boyfriend over a 2 year period. He's been given an 8 year prison sentence. It only came to light because he bragged to a mate who told the police. He stored the photographs on his computer. He had also done the same thing to another lady. He even had the cheek to send a present to the first lady on the 4th anniversary of their relationship.