Gulls attack cat and other stories
Sep 1st, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Cross ChannelHolidaying in the Channel Islands in 1997, the evening news was enlightening. Having flown from Belfast, where the process of members of the opposing communities agreeing not to kill each other was proceeding at snail-like pace, the Channel Islands’ local news headline that someone had been threatened with a knife outside of a nightclub was strangely reassuring. Not that someone had been killed, or injured or attacked; the fact that someone had been threatened merited inclusion at the top of a bulletin. Imagine living in a community so safe that…