A pensioner has admitted making a hoax bomb in a revenge plot against a dentist he believed had overcharged him.Peter McShane, 84, of Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, admitted making the bogus bomb and seven other charges at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court. The package, left outside the Bush Street dental surgery in Pembroke Dock, sparked a major police operation. McShane is due to be sentenced in April. The court heard that McShane wrapped up a large oblong box in a bin bag and carried it down to the dental surgery, where he placed it on the steps.
A pensioner has admitted making a hoax bomb in a revenge plot against a dentist he believed had overcharged him.
Peter McShane, 84, of Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, admitted making the bogus bomb and seven other charges at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court.
The package, left outside the Bush Street dental surgery in Pembroke Dock, sparked a major police operation.
McShane is due to be sentenced in April.
The court heard that McShane wrapped up a large oblong box in a bin bag and carried it down to the dental surgery, where he placed it on the steps.
Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has done a deal with Colony Capital to clear her huge debts.The US private equity firm will become Ms Leibovitz's sole creditor, in a deal that helps her retain the rights to her pictures. Ms Leibovitz, whose images include a Vanity Fair cover of a nude and pregnant Demi Moore, had fallen behind on repayment of a $24m (£16m) loan. She owed the money to Art Capital, which sued the photographer last year. Ms Leibovitz said
Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has done a deal with Colony Capital to clear her huge debts.
The US private equity firm will become Ms Leibovitz's sole creditor, in a deal that helps her retain the rights to her pictures.
Ms Leibovitz, whose images include a Vanity Fair cover of a nude and pregnant Demi Moore, had fallen behind on repayment of a $24m (£16m) loan.
She owed the money to Art Capital, which sued the photographer last year.
Ms Leibovitz said
The Conservative chairman, Eric Pickles, last night appeared to disown the leadership of the Young Britons' Foundation, a rightwing training organisation for young Conservatives whose officials have described the NHS as "the biggest waste of money in the UK" and suggested the waterboarding of prisoners can be justified.Pickles spoke last week at a YBF rally at the House of Commons and the group is working with Conservative Future, the party's official youth wing, on pre-election training of young Tory activists. But yesterday that relationship came under serious strain."We don't agree with these views," a spokesman for Pickles said in a brief statement. "The YBF organisation is independent of the Conservative party."
The Conservative chairman, Eric Pickles, last night appeared to disown the leadership of the Young Britons' Foundation, a rightwing training organisation for young Conservatives whose officials have described the NHS as "the biggest waste of money in the UK" and suggested the waterboarding of prisoners can be justified.
Pickles spoke last week at a YBF rally at the House of Commons and the group is working with Conservative Future, the party's official youth wing, on pre-election training of young Tory activists. But yesterday that relationship came under serious strain.
"We don't agree with these views," a spokesman for Pickles said in a brief statement. "The YBF organisation is independent of the Conservative party."
When I first wrote to Ronald Searle with the idea of an exhibition focusing on his reportage work, he was polite but sceptical, pointing out the difficulty of locating artwork that had been scattered across continents. The idea for a show at the Cartoon Museum, where I have been on the board of trustees for some years, fell into abeyance until the approach of his 90th birthday; this time we proposed a more general exhibition and I was delighted when he responded positivel
