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Thanks to Tommy Begley and Motorcycle News for the Headline.

Sad to say, despite the Ace Cafe being in a superb location in London on the North Circular Road , accessible to many bikers and a Legendary Biker’s Caf, (reopened thirty years ago by Mark Wilsmore )

Since the 17th July this year,it’s had to close its doors at 6pm on Friday evening.

This is a great shame as on a Friday night how brilliant it must have been to gather at this iconic venue and meet up with other bikers over nice food and drink. To sit and watch the world go by in their very boring cars.

Unfortunately, due to irresponsible rat run bikers taking to the North Circular until the early hours and causing distress and potential fatalities Mark had to make the decision that he could no longer open on Friday Evening as the risks to his customers and other road users on the North Circular was too great.

Rossi and Barry Sheene have said that racing on bikes on public roads is a risk too great to take. Stick to the Race Days, with their run offs and no stone walls , barriers or telegraph poles and enjoy your coffee and bacon rolls on a sunny evening. So the Ace Cafe can get back to being a brilliant place to go on a Friday night in London.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Georgie Docker at BBC Online News

The Creamfields Festival is held on land owned by the Daresbury Estate, about half an hours drive from Liverpool. I read a blog about someone who has been to the festival four times and recommends it. It’s electronic dance music , House and Tech House, Techno and Trance.

The Daresbury Estate is quite an extensive area, however, in true Modern Day Pirate Fashion, the drug dealers who wanted to “supply” at the festival buried their various stashes in the land where the festival would be held, presumably in the middle of the night over a period of months before the festival started with the intention of unearthing them when the festival was running, thus getting by the strict security at the Festival.

They were foiled by the Police and presumably sniffer dogs who must have had a whale of the time running across the land and finding stashes of buried drugs. The Police with the usual dry humour have said that if anyone wants to reclaim their property to please contact them. The fact that these stashes have been found has probably saved someone’s life, drugs are so dangerous and unpredictable.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Dan Sales and BBC Online News for the Headline.

A father and his two sons were on the ascent up to the summit of Mount Fuji when his 7 year old complained that he was tired.

The father in what he described “as a rash decision” decided to continue with his older son and leave the child sitting on a bench with some snacks and a soft drink. The bench was located at a height of 6500ft (over 2000metres) and conditions were foggy and rainy.

The father continued his hike and was three hours hike away when the Police caught up with him and after eight hours he was reunited with his “tired and fussy seven year old”.

The poor dad was probably coerced into going further by the elder son who was probably glad to see the back of the little “whiner”. The dad was caught between a stone and a hard place. Glad it all ended well though.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Danielle Herbert and BBC News Online for the Headline

For one little boy a shoe box with gifts in it for Christmas , prepared and sent nearly 40 years ago helped him so much with the trauma of having to leave his home Country of Croatia and move to Sweden , because of the conflict in the Balkans. The boy never forgot that kindness.

All he had was a photo of the two children who had prepared the box and their location written on the back of the photograph, “Mold in Wales”. He put a message out on Facebook through a Mold Community Group and this time social media proved a positive influence and the family who had sent the box recognised their picture and got in touch with the boy who is 40 years old now. The children who sent the box have grown up now and it’s their children who want to keep the tradition of sending shoe box gifts going as they can see what a difference it can make.