been busy this week - nose to the grindstone, ear to the ground. Thought not. It's the height of sumer (just look out the damn window, won't you). You're all off at festivals and on beaches - eating and drinking as if you've not got a care in the world.
Luckily, The Source has retained close to the action - so that you don't have to. Here's the pickings of the week's odds and ends.
Nitigating circumstances
The lawyer for one Albert Tse - currently awaiting sentencing for his role in a kidnap, unlawful confinement and extortion - has asked that his client be shown some sympathy by a court in Canada. Because the stress of the case has caused his hair to fall out.
Simon Buck noted that the trial had been "very long", and that his client had been "very stressed" - hastily adding that Tsa hadn't "shaved his head for any other reason than that he is losing his hair".
Albert Tse goes unconvincingly bald
Well, The Source does agree that balding men should probably go the whole hog, rather than hang on desperately to their remaining strands with a terrible comb-over (or variant thereon). But perhaps not in this case.
Gardening leave
As widely reported this week, an lawyer has lost a legal battle to obtain access to one of those lovely little posh London gardens reserved for the exclusive use of residents of the lovely little posh squares in which they sit. heart strings were tugged and tiny violins were played as Jeffrey Herrmann lost his case over his £3 million house in Knightsbridge.
He now faces a legal bill for £173,000. And The Source wouldn't want to be his lawyer, not right now.
Robin Hood for the Ritalin generation
The Barefoot Bandit has finally been captured after two years on the run. Colton Harris-Moore was finally picked up in the Bahamas. On the run after fleeing a halfway-house in Washington state in 2008, Colton is reckoned to have broken into numerous houses, stealing plenty of cars and - best of all - commandeering five planes and flying for freedom. Despite having no formal flight training.
He was finally captured as his internet celebrity caught up with him. But young Colton is 6'5" - how did he evade the authorities for so long?
At least with 60,000 Facebook fans he'll have plenty of correspondence to write whilst in prison.
Luckily, The Source has retained close to the action - so that you don't have to. Here's the pickings of the week's odds and ends.
Nitigating circumstances
The lawyer for one Albert Tse - currently awaiting sentencing for his role in a kidnap, unlawful confinement and extortion - has asked that his client be shown some sympathy by a court in Canada. Because the stress of the case has caused his hair to fall out.
Simon Buck noted that the trial had been "very long", and that his client had been "very stressed" - hastily adding that Tsa hadn't "shaved his head for any other reason than that he is losing his hair".
Albert Tse goes unconvincingly baldWell, The Source does agree that balding men should probably go the whole hog, rather than hang on desperately to their remaining strands with a terrible comb-over (or variant thereon). But perhaps not in this case.
Gardening leave
As widely reported this week, an lawyer has lost a legal battle to obtain access to one of those lovely little posh London gardens reserved for the exclusive use of residents of the lovely little posh squares in which they sit. heart strings were tugged and tiny violins were played as Jeffrey Herrmann lost his case over his £3 million house in Knightsbridge.
He now faces a legal bill for £173,000. And The Source wouldn't want to be his lawyer, not right now.
Robin Hood for the Ritalin generation
The Barefoot Bandit has finally been captured after two years on the run. Colton Harris-Moore was finally picked up in the Bahamas. On the run after fleeing a halfway-house in Washington state in 2008, Colton is reckoned to have broken into numerous houses, stealing plenty of cars and - best of all - commandeering five planes and flying for freedom. Despite having no formal flight training.
He was finally captured as his internet celebrity caught up with him. But young Colton is 6'5" - how did he evade the authorities for so long?
At least with 60,000 Facebook fans he'll have plenty of correspondence to write whilst in prison.
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