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A grandfather has been given a prison sentence for racial harassment after calling a Welsh woman "English".

Mick Forsythe used the term during an argument over a scratched car in his Welsh home town.

He called the vehicle's owner, Lorna Steele, an "English bitch".

She and her husband took great offence at the jibe and decided to take him to court.

The 55-year-old former lorry driver was found guilty of racially aggravated disorderly behaviour, and received a ten-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months.

Yesterday Mr Forsythe attacked the prosecution as a waste of time and money.

"I find it unbelievable that I've been prosecuted for this," he said.

"I'm originally from Northern Ireland so I'm an adoptive Welshman.

"I've travelled all over Europe as a lorry driver and never had any problems with anybody and now they're officially calling me a racist.

"It's political correctness gone mad.

"The joke is that the woman I had the row with isn't even English. She's Welsh. I am absolutely gobsmacked, to be frank."

humpty dumpty

Think that the ending of Humpty Dumpty is too harsh for little children? Change it! That’s what the BBC’s CBeebies programme Something Special did:

Instead of being unable to ‘put Humpty together again’, the new version claimed all the King’s horses and all the King’s men ‘made Humpty happy again’. [...]

The Something Special show, presented by Justin Fletcher, is aimed at children with learning difficulties but is popular with all children under the age of five.

The BBC insisted the nursery rhyme was not modified due to its target audience and said it had only been changed for ‘creative’ purposes.

ice cream toppings

Ice cream toppings a health and safety risk
31 January 2008

The Italian ice cream chain "Morellis" banned staff from putting toppings on customers' ice creams in case they slipped over them if they dripped off. Instead customers received the cone with the topping in a separate pot to pour on themselves.

John Midgley, Co-Founder of the Campaign Against Political Correctness, said "What's the world coming to when you are not allowed to put a bit of chocolate sauce on a cone? It's symptomatic of the compensation culture age in which we are living."