1) Downs - early in the week the Police issued a warning to Senior Citizens to avoid confrontations with teenage gangs because a number of times this has led to them having heart attacks and dying on the spot.
2) Downs - the next day, a retired person died of a heart attack when he was engaged in a 'Road Rage' incident with another driver who decided to chase him by car.
3) Ups - London was awarded the Olympics. Wow - maybe this country is not so bad after all !
Everybody felt positive and it seemed to show that we could compete and win on the world stage, even though the country is in a terrible mess.
4) Downs - Bombs explode in London, about 50 people die and 700 are injured.
The good feelings about the Olympics are instantly destroyed and replaced by worry, concern and apprehension. I am going to a meeting tomorrow with a Government Department and have been told to arrive 40 minutes early to allow for security checks.
The strange thing is that a survey showed that most British people still think we should be in Iraq and Blair's popularity has gone up !!!
5) Downs - yesterday 20,000 people were evacuated from the centre of Birmingham, (the second largest city in England), as the result of what the Police called 'a serious and credible threat of terrorism'.
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