Wishing all readers a Happy New Year and prosperity and cheer in 2017 and a New Year missive from Donald Trump We thank all our readers for supporting us in 2016 – a year of great turbulence – and are pleased to have shared a huge array of moments and happenings with you. […]
Matthew Steeples shares predictions for 2017 2016 has been a year when sense was turned on its head. Donald Trump being elected President of the United States of America and Brexit in Britain were not expected and the only beneficiaries thus far have been those who bet on both. In the coming year, one […]
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January – Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff sent a bizarre email to NBC defending his actions. It won’t make any difference to his life and he will die in jail.February – The Steeple Times exposed the nonsensical story of Alan and Katrina Lane, a couple from Sandbanks, Dorset, after they falsely told the Daily Mail they were sleeping rough at Heathrow Airport.March – A Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman belonging to the cannibalistic dictator Jean-Bédel Bokassa, head of state of the Central African Republic and subsequently the Central African Empire from 1966 until 1979, went on sale for £225,000.
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April – Davide Boncimino of Mr Fogg’s won La Brasserie’s third inter-bar cocktail competition with an amazing drink made with VII Hills Gin. The event was judged by amongst others actor Lyndon Ogbourne, media personality Nancy Dell’Olio, musician Lettice Rowbotham and Matthew Steeples of The Steeple Times.May – Serial party crasher David Pun was spotted at a party in St James’s. He featured on our pages several times subsequently along with fellow champagne swillers such as Denis “The Dribble” Doble.June – The Steeple Times reported that a repossessed house in Cumbria had gone on the market for £3 million despite having no roof. It has still not been sold.
We look forward to sharing many more tales of the unexpected with you during the coming year.
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Glenmore Trenear-Harvey
Well ‘Rod the Plod’ I wait with bated breath in anticipation of your scintalliting, witty comment, preceding the New Year’s flood of your meaningless exlamation marks. Jeez you’re a gallah.
(And when are you going to answer Wayde’s questions?)
Jason
Ah yes, Sandra Shevey . . . a few pills short of a blister pack.
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Well ‘Rod the Plod’ I wait with bated breath in anticipation of your scintalliting, witty comment, preceding the New Year’s flood of your meaningless exlamation marks. Jeez you’re a gallah.
(And when are you going to answer Wayde’s questions?)
Ah yes, Sandra Shevey . . . a few pills short of a blister pack.