Suicidal mother missing after domestic fight

A local mother is missing after her daughter called the police during a domestic row with her husband.

Sarah and Bernard Townsend were arguing when the 12 year old girl decided to make the call at 11:25pm. When police arrived at 11:30, Sarah, 42, had left the house and was thought to be heading towards St David’s Walk. She is believed to have consumed a large amount of medication including paracetemol, and is thought to be in a vulnerable state of mind.

The exact amount of medication taken by Mrs Townsend is still being investigated, but she has been described by police as suicidal, which has ensured the prompt start to this search. Police arrived within five minutes of the call and dog handlers and helicopters have been called to help conduct the search. No evidence suggests she has made contact with any family or friends. The daughter who made the call is currently being cared for by her father, Bernard, head of community relations at Glamorgan Police station.

Mrs Townsend, a local hairdresser, was last seen wearing black leggings and a red jumper with a black knee length coat and black shoulder bag. She is 5″7, medium build with black collar length hair.

Inspector John Jones of South Wales Police made a plea to Mrs Townsend at a press conference tonight saying ‘Your daughter is missing you, please report to family or a friend.’

Anyone with information on Sarah Townsends’ whereabouts please call 01443 546128

 

Suicidal mother missing after domestic fight

A local couple, Sarash and Bernard Townsend were in the middle of an arguement last night. At 11:25 there daughter phoned the police. The police arrived at 11:30. Mrs Townsend had taken a large amount of paracetemols and had left the house, and was heading towards St Davids walk. South Wales police belive her to be in a vunerable state of mind She is 42 years of age, 5″7, medium build with black collar lengnth hair. She was wearing black leggings, a red jumper, a black knee length coat and black shoulder bag. She is a hairdresser in a local salon and her husband is head of community relations in Glamorgan police station. All enquiries of her whereabouts to family anf friends have returned to police negative.

Cardiff…your so vain

Cardiff was named as one of the vainest cities in the UK in a recent study, commissioned by make-up firm Transformulas International.  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=769_1194208373 

According to the survey in some parts of the country, women admitted to checking their appearance up to 71 times a day, and Cardiff was one of the top of the list of Britain’s persistent pouters. Liverpool was named the vainest city, with 71 check ups in a day, whilst London came second followed by Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Cardiff. The survey, which included a sample of 2,000 men and women, found that many Cardiff dwellers cannot go for more than half an hour without a quick look in the mirror.

So has Cardiff simply become a city of beautiful people? Or has the strain and struggle to live up to glamorous images, created by celebrities, contorted our minds into constantly trying to maintain the alluring image that stares back at us from our compact once our makeup has been re-applied. 

Conceited Cardiff, ha! A scientist has simply tallied up a couple of mirror glances and declared vanity. Girls will be girls and reapply their lipstick and boys will be boys and worry about receeding hairlines. But as I enter a Cardiff club toilet on a Saturday night to re-apply…I’m forced to re-consider. The sinks are busier than the bar, and the wait is twice as long. So is it the increasing amount of prententious bars? The evergrowing cosmopolitan culture? Plain old media pressure? What is making Cardiff folk become so image conscious? 

Perhaps the image the city is trying to create with its apartment blocks and boutiques is rubbing off on its citizens, suggesting they too need fresh paintwork and some serious bodywork. Whatever it is, we can disagree all we like, but our city is becoming more and more of a cocky community. Its written in the numerous new shops, the cosmopolitan clubs and the reflection you keep checking.

I bet you think I’m wrong, I bet you think not you, I bet you think this blog is about you…don’t you?

Cardiff is aiming to become the next stop on the trend circuit, with the launch of its very own fashion week

New York, Paris, Milan, London. Each plays host to showcases of the world’s finest couture, and now Cardiff is next in line to take a piece of the fashion action these cities experience. 

It will be a one off event showcasing up and coming designers and famous brands, but if it generates enough interest may become an annual affair, putting Cardiff on the fashion map. The event, held in Oceana nightclub, Cardiff on March 16th, will be a mix of Wales’ finest talent alongside some of the UK’s top models and designers, and if it attracts enough interest, will be followed by a full week of shows. People can buy tickets online at http://www.urbantraffic.co.uk/venue_details.php?pid=4&venue_id=110

Models from LA and London will be brought in to take part and scouts from Storm and LA Castings will be on the hunt for new talent.  This could be the boost the Welsh capital has been searching for, with recognition in the fashion world, Cardiff business is bound to be booming! Cardiff Fashion Week may be starting small, but LFW did too, growing from 15 shows when it began in 1994 to 53 today.

London Fashion Week generates an estimated £100m for the London economy every year. With editorial media coverage worth £24m and orders worth £40m, it is as good for the city as it is for the designers and for fashion. More than 5,000 visitors register to attend each season, including UK and international buyers and press, as well as plenty of fashion savvy celebrities.The show, hosted by local model Taye Armani, is a preview of what could be an annual event that could boost Cardiff’s reputation and economy.

American expert says bloggers are new generation of journalists.

An American expert claims new media has changed the course of journalism radically. Dan Gillmor says the shifting state of today’s journalism with technologies such as blogging and RSS is forcing changes in the media.

He claims the readers and creators of news are now often the same person thanks to various members of the public blogging ‘home grown’ news. With the increasing amount of these ‘grass root’ journalists, Gillmor says the rules have journalism have changed.

These writers have the freedom and ability to probe into various affairs and are free to report what they wish with no editor breathing down their neck. Gillmor describes the grassroots as ‘a formidable truth squad’.

The journalists of the online world are therefore insiders, part of the readership themselves. Information has become much more obtainable online via instant messages, emails and blogs and Gillmor states this means ‘information no longer leaks, it gushes’.

Bloggers can write as little or as much as they like. This can lead to stories taking on their own life even if they are not true. The publics new found power to ‘spread the word’ is made easier with tools such as linking and RSS.

Learn more about RSS at http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html

This gossip type news can create problems with businesses and people, leading to cases of libel against the writers.

See http://www.journalism.co.uk/5/articles/5841.php which gives an article on how this can be avoided.

Gillmor questions where the line should be drawn in these discussions, perhaps trade secrets are simply part of a dying era as the internet continues to make everything more transparent. Gillmor states rather than companies questioning who made rumours, why not join them? He says ‘With few exceptions, I’d suggest the more transparent a company is, the more likely it will succeed in a networked world.’

Gillmor was one of the first professional journalists to join this blogging crusade, and found his readers became his ‘collaborators’.

http://dangillmor.typepad.com/

 

He claims the readers know more than the media professionals do, this is true by definition, ‘they are many and we are often just one’. Gillmor urges journalists to embrace and use the publics’ knowledge within this new media generation: ‘If we don’t, our former audience will bolt when they realize they don’t have to settle for half-baked coverage; they can come into the kitchen themselves.’

Newspapers struggle to survive

As online newpapers and magazines become more popular, is the tradition of print on paper struggling to survive?

More magazines and newspapers continue to create an online version of what they publish, even including page turning effects and virtual desks. But although technology continues to change how we view our media, there still remain the rebels that enjoy having their paper with their morning coffee and the traditionals who continue to collect their magazines on their bookshelves.

So will print simply slip into the ‘collectors’ catergory, or will it try to continue to survive in this online era? More newspapers are trying to adapt to the changes by cutting jobs and others going online exclusively. Many argue that online blogging delivers more comprhensive news than that of a newspaper, giving honest, simple news, with no spin on things. Bloggers are free to report what they wish, without an editor breathing down his neck. But does this simple blogging technique destroy the beauty of the written word, turning flowing language into blunt statements? Or is it the saviour of journalism, reviving the dullness that was a black and white page? http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/28/how-bloggers-will-save-journalism