I think there should be some sort of National Service set up for offenders, as opposed to sending them to prison. There must be a way of getting these people to serve a useful purpose, when they are not a serious danger to the public.
Yeah I agree, there's no need for these people to go to prison, a lot of people calling for a harsh sentence on this have a cognitive dissonance where they normally would agree that prison "does no good" etc. Prison should be for keeping dangers to society away from the public.
They should be given a community order where they plant thousands of trees, and chuck a tag on them so they can't go out at night. I would still give them an incredibly onerous sentence, but not one behind bars.
I agree that a 10 year community service order where they spend 50 hours a week digging ditches, clearing ponds and planting trees would be more effective than a custodial sentence especially if they were paid minimum wage and their bank accounts monitored
Apparently there are 1.3bn trees in the UK. The time, money, resource etc. spent finding the guys who cut this one down is immense, given that almost none of that would have occurred for 99.9% of the other trees here.
I get why it turns into a big deal, but given that I had £30k worth of equipment nicked recently and the only bit of police work that occurred was a search for a van that was spotted in the area, that turned out to be a fucking police van, I am a little annoyed at how police resource is spent!
The tree in Enfield has a possible Spurs connection according to the latest Private Eye. Mitchell & Butlers, the owners of Toby Carvery, have as their largest shareholder Joe Lewis. His family trust owns 70% of Enic, who own 86% of Spurs. Enfield Council have recently allowed green belt land to be built on by Spurs right near Whitewebbs House, site of the tree felling. Toby may also be selling the lease on Whitewebbs to the club. Spurs dismissed any suggestion that felling this tree would help them stick a road in between the new women's ground and Whitewebbs.
The papers would have been printed anyway, no matter what the news. Perhaps we should be looking at not producing newspapers any more, when news can be found online.
I used to regularly buy a newspaper and had subscriptions to lots of magazines. I now get my news from the tv and online and can read many magazines on the Readly App, which for £12.99 a month, gives me access to scores of magazines and some 'newspapers'.
Not exactly true. As far as I am aware newsprint is more or less 100% recyled.
Almost all paper used in the UK is made from sustainable sources, that is trees that are grown and harvested specifically to make pulp. Think of it like wheat, only with a twenty year cycle rather than annually. Eucalyptus trees can reach maturity in less than ten years, so are used a lot in paper making.
The stupidity and lack of care for the natural world by some low life idiots continues. Protected nesting sites in Norfolk have been vandalised putting the survival of endangered species at risk.
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They should be given a community order where they plant thousands of trees, and chuck a tag on them so they can't go out at night. I would still give them an incredibly onerous sentence, but not one behind bars.
I get why it turns into a big deal, but given that I had £30k worth of equipment nicked recently and the only bit of police work that occurred was a search for a van that was spotted in the area, that turned out to be a fucking police van, I am a little annoyed at how police resource is spent!
I used to regularly buy a newspaper and had subscriptions to lots of magazines. I now get my news from the tv and online and can read many magazines on the Readly App, which for £12.99 a month, gives me access to scores of magazines and some 'newspapers'.
And then even more stupid to not plead guilty when there was so much evidence against them.
Are they murderers or rapists? No but they deserve a punishment for being stupid and as a deterent to others.
Almost all paper used in the UK is made from sustainable sources, that is trees that are grown and harvested specifically to make pulp. Think of it like wheat, only with a twenty year cycle rather than annually. Eucalyptus trees can reach maturity in less than ten years, so are used a lot in paper making.
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