It was not very surprising to me, to be honest it shouldnt be surprising to any of us, having been stopped more than 20 times since 1996 when i 1st got my license, u kinda stop caring. When i ask what the reason is for stopping me, most say oh its just routine, when u get the ones who tell straight up, "i'm stopping you cos yr a black guy in a nice car", thats when i co-operate more, at least hes being straight with me. Ppl r making a big deal about it now and r shouting off the roof tops demanding change, but by next week it will all be swept under the carpet and i will get stopped again. However, i have learned a new tactic, take their badge numbers and make a complaint of racial harrasment, they may tell it wont make any diff, but when u highlight the fact that it will be a blemish on their record and decrease their chances of promotion in the future, that when they realise that this young black boy aint to be messed with! Peace!

they dont teach christianity at the school, however u do get the feeling that is an aim for the future or by somehow influencing the beliefs of the students when teaching in the class rooms!

ameenah i dont think that british lives are more valuable, but lets reverse the roles, there r killings in the uk or the us everyday, when its a somali, then we all stand up take note, same thing!

http://www.euro2004.com/Competitions/EURO/euro2004sa/Ticketing/Application/step1.html i gna go watch zidane before he retires ia.

They all need sending back home for 'reconditioning' as i have seen many who have gone off the rails, only to come back more calm and mature. I hav worked with these kids before as a youth worker, i'm just saying help and encourage as when u can but dont be too hard on yr self and others. Somalis never do anything as a community, untill then, the situation will remain the same!

I'm with u winger!!!!England all the way baby. Real football fans will recognise that England perform when they have big games against big teams, so let wait and see. If not, we will both join the hooligan element and trash a city centre sumwhere!!!lol Ave it!

Bariis iyo Hilib sheelan Bearr-breakfast on a sat morning,mmmmmmm! Baasto iyo digaag Followed by a good old cuppa with sum cake!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3187576.stm

1 of my all time fav athletes has finally called it a day, good luck to the guy! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/3196810.stm

spit it out bro!lol

jazakallahukharan bro,

^^^ will do bruv, illahay ha nagarsiyo,ameen! we need ppl tho, where are the rest? rampage, nuune,baaniyaal where u all at?

gr8 article, why do think the arabs are contributing to the ever 'unsettlement' of somalia as a whole with there generousity towards the warlords who favour their stance on no oil being struck in the country. Maan i should be going for president, i'm sure i can show them arabs a thing or two!

^^^lol@crack head i'm sure he is a regular on the Harlsden/Brixton/Camden back streets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

You can only do so much, if they take yr advice and pursue something good then thats wonderful. A fool will not learn from past mistakes and will carry on being 'ciyaal' for longer than normal and become stuck in this mind frame. If he/she wants to be a fool then so be it! Dont worry too much about these kids, most of them snap out of it. The ones that i do see who are up to no good, i can only hope and pray they turn out good. Sophist, my attitude is get on with life as best as possible and dont let uncontrabble issues effect yr life resulting in anger and frustration. Life is too short to be wasting yr time with these sort of things that will probably not change much when yr older and is a repetitive cycle.

i did an on-line IQ test not long ago, just for fun, and scored 126, so there goes their unproven theory!

looooool wot do they know, white ppl assessing our inteligence and coming up with this,lol,let them think that, one day they will be surprised and by then it would be too late for them!

^^^lol, its is very competitive trus me,u see the size of the cameroun team (the security)??? they cool, we will get into anywhere in town with those guys around, they gr8 ppl, winger dont worry, u hav the best part of a year to be ready, but we will go more for a holiday with football in the middle,sand, sea,shoppin, italian ........,lol, no age limit, as long as u aint still seeking asylum then u aight cos u dont want the italian police gettin onto u now, six a side so we all need to e fit, we will be playin in 35 degree heat for like 3-4 days if we do well, so fitness is a priority,but easier said than done, last time we went over with no fitness, tactics of training, we got thru to the final out of 90 odd teams beating argentina 3-2 in the semis! just keep it in mind, u love fball, u will love it, TRUST

Ramadan Kareem to ALL!!! IA

Heart says England my England Mind says no way, the french will be back!

its a long time away i know but i can see u shuji as our influential skipper!

oooooo shhhhhhhit, our team in 2001, lost in the final that year,lol, damnn http://lola.d-a-s-h.org/~antira/registro/index.php?language=english

i want to take an sol team nxt year, names plz, guaranteed wicked time! http://lola.d-a-s-h.org/~antira/main.php check out group 5 below http://lola.d-a-s-h.org/~antira/resultate%20steffen/index.htm?language=english this is the org that organises it every year, i have the contacts and i want to go back beat those italians who cheated us, so if interested let me know! http://www.furd.org/news.asp

The World Health Organisation is calling for tighter controls on countries like Britain that poach foreign doctors from the developing world. The issue of ethical recruitment has inched its way onto the global health agenda - with the chair of the South African Medical Association urging compensation from countries that recruit medics from overseas. Though doctors from overseas have a long history of coming to Britain for training and extra experience now we need them more than ever before. A team of 40 South African doctors and support staff have been flown in to Merseyside to get waits for knee and hip operations down at Southport General Hospital. I certainly feel very disappointed every time I see another doctor emigrating Dr Mike Hatchett The initiative has already had impressive results. For patients like Robert Birchall it has meant the usual 12 month waiting list has been trimmed to a matter of weeks. "South Africa is only 11 hours away, and if it is only to cost £2.5m to reduce the list by nearly 400 patients, lets spend £2.5m and get them back next week." But it is not just about money, but manpower too. With pledges to expand capacity within the NHS, the government has promised 7,000 more senior doctors by 2004. However, the British Medical Association claims only a fraction of this have been taken on - so will doctors from countries like South Africa help to prop up the NHS until enough home grown talent can be trained? And what about the new fast track treatment centres announced for the NHS earlier this month? The rules are that they get their doctors privately or from overseas - and South Africa is one of the places they have got their eye on. Depleted resources Both are trends that have left many health specialists in the poorer world worried that they simply can't compete with the salaries offered here. They fear their own struggling health services will be depleted of vital medical staff. WHO needs to link the movement of doctors and nurses to the health conditions within countries Orvil Adams And although the Health Department insists they are recruiting ethically, Kgosi Letlape, from the South African Medical Association fears Britain will gain at his country's expense. "You are increasing your ability to poach by opening these centres that you cannot man yourself." Dr Mike Hatchett is an anaesthetist with the South African team in Southport. Like other doctors he is inundated with offers to come and work here for good - doubling his salary instantly. He is here for just a fortnight, but will be replaced with another South African doctor when he leaves - the company running the scheme ensures the doctors jobs are held open back at home. But Dr Hatchett knows other agencies will bring doctors over and they'll simply stay. "I certainly feel very disappointed every time I see another doctor emigrating, and I know most of my colleagues feel the same way - it is depressing for the doctors that are left. "But if you are coming across for a short-term stint which supplements your income, that is more likely to encourage you to stay back home." Contractual safeguards Southport's chief executive Allan Stephenson knows recruiting overseas has had good results for his patients, but he says it has been a one off project for a set period of time. He argues this isn't state sanctioned poaching but admits other hospitals may be tempted to recruit long term. "We have got to be careful about that, both here in the UK and in South Africa. "We gave a contractual agreement not to recruit any of the staff that have come over for a period of two years - I think that is a good principle to follow." The British Government signed a deal at the Commonwealth health ministers conference earlier this year pledging to recruit medical staff responsibly. But it carries no legal weight. Health minister Melanie Johnson said "only a fraction" of doctors were recruited internationally. Health trusts were guided by a code which bans recruitment from 120 countries which cannot afford to lose staff, she said. "They are effectively forbidden from using agencies that do recruit from those countries." Seven thousand South African doctors are now on the permanent register of the UK's general medical council - equivalent to half the number working South Africa's public health service. Though they have all have come under their own steam, the trend now is for systematic recruitment. However, Ms Johnson said many of those registered would not take up positions in the UK. "The UK government does not recruit from South Africa," Ms Johnson said. Compensation needed Dr Letlape is amongst a growing chorus of voices calling on richer nations to pay compensation. This is how he thinks it should work. "You say, OK, it costs us £1.2m. You pay us the £1.2m for the one that we have lost, but you then fund another one that comes into training. "So not only do you pay us for the lost one, but you finance us to replace them." Although the quality of care delivered by doctors from overseas is not in dispute, ministers from the developing world are keen to put what they say is a culture of "exploitation" onto the global health agenda. The WHO's Orvil Adams says tough legislation should be considered as well as compensation, and the WHO should consider taking on a wider policing role. "WHO needs to bring the international community together to address this, and to link the movement of doctors and nurses to the health conditions within countries." Whilst many applaud the free movement of doctors, there are real worries that in the dash to get our own waiting lists down we are turning to doctors from the developing world that can ill afford to lose them. A lot rests on this government delivering on its health promises of treatment more quickly and more staff - but at what price to countries where their own health services are already struggling to cope?

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