Karen Gilan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14680598

The fall of Tripoli

Most of the headlines and front pages of Wednesday newspapers ,apart from 'The Sun',focus on the rebels,having entered Tripoli on Sunday,finally taken over Gadaffi's compound.
Celebrations in Green Square,to be renamed Martyers' Square.

The Silence

St.Ives

Holiday with mum.Visited Saint Michael Mount,in Morazion,Penzance,Saint Ives Tate Gallery,Mousehole,Land's End.The weather was fairly warm and sunny apart from a couple of grey cloudy days at the beginning of the week.On the last day we went on a trip to Seal Island but actually saw more of the seals when we returned to the harbour and the two seals came close up the boat.

The 4th day of riots hits the town of Gloucester.!Three men killed in hit and run in Birmingham!

Rioting spreads to a number of cities with unrest in Manchester and Liverpool, while three men said to be protecting their community have been run over and killed in Birmingham.

Black day for Britain!

Last night was the third day of riots,since the death of a man in Tottenham,who was shot by the police last Thursday,many shops and small businesses in many parts of London were looted with many buildings and cars set alight.Senseless criminality! The looting even reached normanly tranquil areas such as Ealing and Clapham Junction with its department store 'Debenhams' ransacked for over 2 hours with no police around;in fact the police,around 25 of them,were barricaded in Lavender Hill police station with over 300 teenagers in the street taunting the police to come out.A case of the police being scared.

'Mob Rule' was the front page headline on most of today's newspapers.Many of the looters were young teenagers and were even loading cars with their loot!There were also copy-cat looting and violence in other cities:Birmingham,Liverpool,Bristol and Manchester.

The centre of Clapham Junction has been cordoned off with the firefighters still putting out a fire at the 'Party Party ' shop.There were many TV crews,including the BBC and a Dutch station.The BBC interviewed an Indian guy,the owner of an off-licence,luckily he had steel shutters for the front of his shop and he had closed up before the trouble started. Sean FitzPatrick a 25 year-old student was interviewed by some local journalists and also the BBC.

A local woman,who works at the post office said she couldn't work because the post office had been broken in,she also mentioned that she'd seen a mother and her kids with suitcases stealing from the shops.Many of the local residents of Clapham Junction mentioned that the police weren't there and the police that were there were in their police cars/vans well away from the trouble.

Tomorrow's International footbal match between England and Holland has been cancelled.

Cloudy in La Marsa

Cloudy and slightly cooler but still a bit humid.
On Saturday the remote for the air conditioning suddenly stopped working.
Yesterday I cooked a chiken curry-good but need better rice.
In Oslo memorial service for the victims of the twin terror attacks,on Friday,over 90 people killed,most of them teenagers,by extreme politically far-right Norweigen 32-year old man.
On Saturday Amy Winehouse,27 years old,was found dead at her home-perhaps an drug overdose.
In China two high speed trains crashed killing over 30 people.