The holiday season is drawing to a close as the nights are getting shorter and the weather’s getting colder. But don’t feel blue folks because The Source has been out and about to chase up this week’s odds and ends for your reading pleasure.
Boris bikes in human rights non-shocka
With Boris bikes now becoming a regular sight around the City, you might think that Londoners have embraced the new additions to their roads. Not so, it seems. Apparently there have been plenty of objections to the installation of Boris bike docking stations.
In an outburst of nimbyism, residents of Kensington and Chelsea have complained that birds on the trees will relieve themselves on the bicycles making them look disgusting. Heaven forbid. Stranger still, Camden residents turned the drama up a notch by claiming that the installation of docking stations near their homes was "a violation of the basic human rights of residents", according to a report in the Evening Standard.
Another shocking human rights violation goes un-challenged
The Source was not aware that the 'right not to have to look upon slightly cumbersome bikes lined up outside your mansion block residence' had now been incorporated into the Human Rights Act. Super.
Tight-fisted companies seek interns for long hours and no pay
A article in the Guardian shows that there are still companies keen to cash in by taking on unpaid interns. This is despite a recent report from think-tank The Institute for Public Policy Research condemning most unpaid internships as illegal and an announcement from David Willetts that the exploitation of interns is unacceptable.
The Guardian report found that several publishers including those who produce magazines for the likes of Tescos and Sainsburys - surely not short of a bob or two - were advertising six month unsalaried positions for interns. Raising the bar in terms of tight-fistedness, Urban Outfitters and Selfridges were apparently seeking interns for their head office for NINE MONTHS. Expenses only.
And the law is by no means immune from this behaviour. As reported previously in RollOnFriday, Baker Botts allegedly paid its interns sweet FA for the work they did – despite many apparently working late nights and weekends - and stretched its miserly credentials yet further by refusing to even offer travel expenses. And then there was Northwich firm, Gavin Edmondson, which advertised for a hard-working paralegal to help grow profits. On an entirely voluntary basis, of course.
Let's hope that an increasingly public focus on the way commercial organisations deal with internships might soon make this kind of stinginess unacceptable.
Big boned burglar
And finally, a suspected burglar had his thieving efforts thwarted by the size of his behind. The police were called to a house in Bow after the householder saw a man's legs dangling from his window. It appears that the yet unnamed man had attempted to enter a house through a small window, underestimating the size of his posterior.
How it may have looked
Apparently the large-arsed muppet was wedged in the window for several hours before he was freed by fire-fighters who had to remove the whole window to get him out.
Boris bikes in human rights non-shocka
With Boris bikes now becoming a regular sight around the City, you might think that Londoners have embraced the new additions to their roads. Not so, it seems. Apparently there have been plenty of objections to the installation of Boris bike docking stations.
In an outburst of nimbyism, residents of Kensington and Chelsea have complained that birds on the trees will relieve themselves on the bicycles making them look disgusting. Heaven forbid. Stranger still, Camden residents turned the drama up a notch by claiming that the installation of docking stations near their homes was "a violation of the basic human rights of residents", according to a report in the Evening Standard.
Another shocking human rights violation goes un-challenged
The Source was not aware that the 'right not to have to look upon slightly cumbersome bikes lined up outside your mansion block residence' had now been incorporated into the Human Rights Act. Super.
Tight-fisted companies seek interns for long hours and no pay
A article in the Guardian shows that there are still companies keen to cash in by taking on unpaid interns. This is despite a recent report from think-tank The Institute for Public Policy Research condemning most unpaid internships as illegal and an announcement from David Willetts that the exploitation of interns is unacceptable.
The Guardian report found that several publishers including those who produce magazines for the likes of Tescos and Sainsburys - surely not short of a bob or two - were advertising six month unsalaried positions for interns. Raising the bar in terms of tight-fistedness, Urban Outfitters and Selfridges were apparently seeking interns for their head office for NINE MONTHS. Expenses only.
And the law is by no means immune from this behaviour. As reported previously in RollOnFriday, Baker Botts allegedly paid its interns sweet FA for the work they did – despite many apparently working late nights and weekends - and stretched its miserly credentials yet further by refusing to even offer travel expenses. And then there was Northwich firm, Gavin Edmondson, which advertised for a hard-working paralegal to help grow profits. On an entirely voluntary basis, of course.
Let's hope that an increasingly public focus on the way commercial organisations deal with internships might soon make this kind of stinginess unacceptable.
Big boned burglar
And finally, a suspected burglar had his thieving efforts thwarted by the size of his behind. The police were called to a house in Bow after the householder saw a man's legs dangling from his window. It appears that the yet unnamed man had attempted to enter a house through a small window, underestimating the size of his posterior.
How it may have looked
Apparently the large-arsed muppet was wedged in the window for several hours before he was freed by fire-fighters who had to remove the whole window to get him out.
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