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Porthcawl Grob Crash

I really feel for the families of the 2 instructors and 2 students involved in the tragic accident over Kenfig reserve today. I absolutely love the times I have flown in a light aircraft, and though you always accept that there is a risk, you never imagine it will actually happen.

The RAF University Air Squadrons are vital for the Service - I am sure over half of RAF pilots came through the ranks from a UAS upwards. So these flights may seem like pleasure trips but for many students it is the very beginning of a glorious flying career.

I cannot imagine how their families must be feeling nor can I imagine how such an unusual set of circumstances conspired to produce this awful accident.

But I do know that, like me if I had the chance, tomorrow many more youngsters and the not so young will take to the skies to do what they love.

Updates

Apologies for the lack of updates to J34 recently. Have been far too busy on other sites however the FF1 competition for 2009 will soon be launched so keep an eye out for the entry form. Hopefully it will be a bit different this year.

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Italy focuses on 'Foxy Knoxy' as trial opens

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Italy focuses on 'Foxy Knoxy' as trial opens.

She is guilty as anything - send them all down I say.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Profile: Captain Chesley Sullenberger

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Profile: Captain Chesley Sullenberger.

What a guy.

Checkout Girls

I've noticed recently that people who work on supermarket tills, and mostly the female ones, are falling over themselves to talk to me, about my shopping, or their social life, the weather, pretty much anything.

This never happened before. is it a new initiative by the major supermarkets to make us feel at ease? Or have I finally reached that age at which girls consider me to be safe - perhaps imagining a wife and 2 kids waiting for me at home?

I think that Asda hav the most chatty staff, followed by Sainsbury's. Tesco are miserable as fuck.

There's no water in the Rhondda

Pipes are frozen!

What a week for black people

F1 champion, US president - whatever next??

BBC NEWS | Wales | E-mail error ends up on road sign

BBC NEWS | Wales | E-mail error ends up on road sign.

When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated". So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket.

BBC NEWS | Wales | 200 cosmetics factory jobs to go

BBC NEWS | Wales | 200 cosmetics factory jobs to go.

Around 200 jobs are set to be lost at the cosmetics firm L'Oreal in the south Wales valleys. Currently around 260 people work at the factory at Talbot Green in Rhondda Cynon Taf. The proposal is for the factory to be sold to another French cosmetics and pharmaceutical group, Fareva. It is believed they will keep 60 jobs producing L'Oreal hair products for the UK market. The rest of the work is being transferred abroad.

Shame as L'Oreal has been around here for years and only a few years ago they built a huge warehouse.

BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | NCP cuts city's parking charges

Link: BBC NEWS | Wales | South East Wales | NCP cuts city's parking charges.

Cardiff's main city centre car park company is performing a U-turn on its pricing policy and cutting its charges by up to 60%.

About time.