Robert McAngus
Sep 2, 2018 · 6 min read

The Daily Tulip — News From Around The World

Sunday 2nd September 2018

Good Morning Gentle Reader…. I had a great morning on the beach yesterday as I suggested, Saturday mornings are always quiet in a tourist town, especially when the children are going back to school soon, so I had plenty of room to lay and catch a few rays and enjoy the melody of the waves breaking on the shore… in fact I enjoyed it so much, I think I will do it again today…. But that would be after coffee…

GWRYCH CASTLE IN CONWY WALES TO GET £15M REVAMP…. A 19th Century castle on the Conwy coast which has previously been a theme park and zoo will be given a £15m renovation. About 100 volunteers have already carried out work to stop Gwrych Castle’s walls from collapsing and held a medieval festival in the gardens. But Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust said it would be 25 years before the whole estate was restored. They bought it in June with £6,000 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Mark Baker was inspired to form the trust 21 years ago, aged 12, after passing the castle every day on his way from his Prestatyn home to Rydal School in Colwyn Bay. He hopes the castle, which still has 300 acres (121 hectares) of grounds surrounding the walls, turrets and towers, will eventually offer holiday accommodation. “A great deal has been done through people’s goodwill and by volunteers as well as professionals and craftsmen who have given their time,” he said. Gwrych Castle was built by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh from the early 1810s and completed by 1822. It was a stately home for more than 100 years with its own stables, brewery, dairy, bakery and ice house and was visited by Queen Victoria before she took the throne. It was also used to house Jewish child refugees during World War Two and after the war it became a theme park complete with a zoo and a small private railway.
World middleweight boxing champion Randolph Turpin trained there in 1951, and in the 1970s and 1980s medieval jousting tournaments were held. From 1985 the site was abandoned to New Age travellers and had a series of owners. The renovation is being funded by grants and investment from private companies. Llyr Williams, of Swayne Johnson solicitors who helped with the purchase, said: “It’s a quite fantastic building and one that so many people will have passed as they speed along the A55 but very few have seen close up.”

BOEING SAYS ASIA NEEDS 240,000 PILOTS OVER NEXT TWO DECADES…. If you need a job, you may want to consider training as an airline pilot and moving to China. Boeing forecasts that the Asia Pacific will need the greatest number of pilots, technicians and cabin crew over the next two decades. The region’s economic growth will lead to rising wealth and increased travel, spurring a need for 240,000 more pilots and 317,000 cabin crew by 2037. China will need half of these new personnel. The projections place pressure on an industry that is already struggling with a pilot shortage and training bottlenecks. Older pilots are set to retire over the next decade and there is increasing demand for business aviation services, such as helicopter tourism and private luxury jets.
Boeing estimates China will need 128,500 pilots, Southeast Asia 48,500 and South Asia 42,750 pilots.
Boeing’s outlook is used to create projections for new airplane deliveries. Unsurprisingly, the Asia Pacific will also lead global demand for new planes. The US aerospace and defence giant projects that 40% of all new passenger planes will be delivered to airlines in the Asia Pacific over the coming years.

UK WIFE KILLER TO BE REPATRIATED TO INDIA…. An Indian man currently serving a jail term in the UK for murdering his wife will be repatriated to India, a top prison official has told The Daily Tulip. Harpreet Aulakh was sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in a UK prison in December 2010 for ordering the murder of Geeta Aulakh. Mother-of-two Ms Aulakh, 28, had her hand severed with a machete during the attack in Greenford, London, in 2009. Aulakh ordered the murder after she asked for a divorce.
IPS Sahota, a top prison official in the northern Indian state of Punjab, told BBC Punjabi’s Arvind Chhabra that Aulakh would arrive in India on Tuesday and would be sent to a prison in Amritsar district. “All arrangements are in place. According to the plan, the UK authorities will bring him to Delhi from where a team of Punjab police officers will bring him to Amritsar,” Mr Sahota said.
Inspector general of prisons Roop Kumar said Aulakh, who is from Punjab, had told the UK authorities that he wanted to serve his remaining term in India. The officials added that the transfer was made possible under international arrangements like the Repatriation of Prisoners Act. In November 2009, Geeta, Aulakh’s wife of 10 years and the mother of his two sons, was hacked to death in Greenford with a 14in machete which he himself had chosen from a selection of swords at a store days before the attack.
The attack took place when Geeta Aulakh went to pick up her two sons after leaving work at a community radio station where she was a receptionist. She was found with head injuries and her right hand severed, and died a few hours later in hospital.
Aulakh, also known as Sunny, and two others — Sher Singh, 19, of Southall, and Jaswant Dhillon, 30, of Ilford, east London — were also found guilty of Geeta Aulakh’s murder.

THIEVES STEAL PUPPY FROM PALMERSTON NORTH SPCA NEW ZEALAND…. Three thieves have stolen a puppy from the Palmerston North SPCA, before fleeing in broad daylight. The centre’s manager Katie Pedersen said two women and a man threw Iris, a 4-month-old staffy, over a six-foot fence about 12.45pm on Thursday. Pedersen said the trio “plotted” together, with one woman throwing the puppy to the other woman, as the man distracted onlookers in the car park. They then fled in a black Holden. It’s understood Iris belonged to one of the women, Pedersen said, before the dog was impounded by the Palmerston North City Council’s animal control team. “That must be the motive.” Iris was with the centre for two weeks, but was still vulnerable. “Her bones will still be very brittle and could break very easily, especially falling from that height. “I just hope she didn’t get injured when she was thrown. She’s very bubbly, full of beans.” Pedersen alerted police, and posted images from the centres surveillance cameras to Facebook.
“We’ve had a huge response. We’ve got one of the girl’s first names, but no address.” Pedersen hadn’t seen an animal stolen before in her five years at the centre. A police spokesman said officers were following “strong lines” of inquiry.

THOUSANDS OF BEES BESIEGE HOT DOG STAND IN NEW YORK’S TIMES SQUARE…. Bees swarm a hot dog vendor’s umbrella in New York’s Times Square, forcing police to close the street. It was a case of hold the honey, double the mustard in New York’s famous Times Square at lunchtime. Police were forced to shut part of 43rd Street near 7th Avenue after a thick swarm of bees gathered atop a blue and yellow umbrella over a hotdog stand in an area of Manhattan already buzzing with swarms of pedestrians, tourists and traffic. A police officer who keeps bees himself, arrived at the scene in Times Square, known as “The Crossroads of the World,” wearing a mesh-hooded beekeeper suit. He deployed a vacuum cleaner-like device to collect the bees unharmed, said New York Police Detective Sophia Mason. The scene drew crowds of tourists taking photographs. “It took about 45 minutes to suck them up,” Mason said. “They are at an undisclosed location. They will rehive them.”

Well Gentle Reader I hope you enjoyed our look at the news from around the world this, morning… …

Our Tulips today are amazing…

A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it’s always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of “Colombian” Coffee and wish you a safe Sunday 2nd September 2018 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…

All good stuff….But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in

Be safe out there…

Robert McAngus
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