My home, the Isle of Wight, is the only place in the UK that has NO grey squirrels.  The red squirrels are becoming a tourist attraction in themselves

http://www.wightsquirrels.co.uk/

However, I think the photo using a squirrel as a glove puppet is sick.  Animals deserve dignity when they are dead, the same as any creature

do they eat squirrels?  then what is the point of all the fuss about the Chinese` eating cats and dogs?

 I agree actually!  If you want to eat meat (I dont!) then you should be prepared to eat a cat or squirrel as well as a cow or sheep!

Actually could you delete these photos please.  I find them even more offensive than swearing

and perhaps even nastier things like this

http://www.trosch.org/lif/baby-eat.html

http://flickr.com/photos/debbiecbs/28093743/

 Please stop this

I think it`s a hoax anyway

Bomber Harris, WW II, operation Gomorrah, Hamburg´s Inferno

Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg 1943

by Keith Lowe

´Bomber´ Harris or ´Butcher´ Harris? Keith Lowe, author of Inferno, an exemplary analysis of the week-long bombing of Hamburg which killed more than 40,000 in 1943, masterminded by Air Chief Marshall Arthur Harris, comes no closer to settling the argument of whether he was hero or villain. Harris´s detractors will argue that he had no notion of the hell he visited on the civilian population of Germany, if, indeed, he actually cared. His defenders will claim that cowing a civilian population was as important as destroying war factories responsible for all methods of destruction, whether shells or U-boats, as was the case in Hamburg.

While the bombing of Dresden in 1945 still - and rightly - occasions debate on the necessity or otherwise of total war, the bombing of Hamburg two years earlier is of equal importance, if less discussed. It is to Lowe´s credit that he uses material both from members of the RAF and the American air force and those on the receiving end of one of the Second Word War´s most determined aerial bombardments to present a picture of atrocious human suffering, without seeking to be judgmental.

The most poignant stories come in asides. A small boy, removed from Hamburg when the rest of his family has died, is stopped by an official in the town to which he has been exiled and is asked what is in his two bags: one contains the remains of his pet rabbit, the other the reduced and charred remains of his sister. Other survivors tell of victims of the firestorm becoming human torches as they sought to escape the blistering heat.

Nothing quite prepares you for the photographs of line after line of victims, neatly arrayed, or of block after block of houses, only their outer walls standing, where all inside had perished. As the Harris debate rumbles on, the events of 1943 still resonate with present-day Hamburgers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/mar/04/historybooks.features1

duplicate post!

Ros - if you don´t mind me saying this article is very biased!  Can I remind you that we were at war with Germany, and equal devastation was caused to London (and Coventry (among many).  The town of Coventry was literally flattened.

In addition, German historians recently announced that the actual number of deaths from the bombings in Dresden was was 25,000 and NOT 250,000 which they claimed at the time.   Because of this falsehood, the bombing of Dresden was condemned as a war crime after the war.  In actual fact it was nothing compared to the deaths from bombings in the UK.

War is horrible, for both sides.  My grandmother well remembers being machined gunned by German fighter planes whilst with her schoolfriends, walking to school and being told to lay flat on the ground until it was over.

I am not saying that those Allied bombings of German are not horrible.  I just think that posting such an article, out of context, gives completely the wrong impression.  Ask France, ask Poland, ask England, ask Holland, ask all the affected countries - they will all have similar stories.

our country really a paradise for all sort speculators...