Claire was born in County Durham, she is a trained fashion designer and is a self taught artist and writer. She lives and works in Brighton as social media analyst.

My passion is ...

The search for the void of calm (every second of the day)

I know too much about ...

Being under estimated

My parents always told me ...

To have a cup of tea - hey.. it cures being gay "so i'm told...?" and most other things - walm water does much the same

My childhood ambition ...

To be an artist and murdock from the A team (but my mum told me wearing a cap makes you bald - so i never got to break out of a maximum security prison wearing a rabbit costume) but i do paint

My favorite memory ...

My mothers smile

Why I write ...

It's like breathing and sometimes as with painting i feel nausea until i get ideas out - creative vomiting i call it

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading:- H P Lovecraft and Next (michael crichton which is awful) - Watching:- trinny & susanna - Listening to - Rufus Wainwright

My first job ...

Selling Cartoon posters at School and running an illegal Tuck shop (made a packet)

My best moment ...

Helping my chihuahua give birth too 5 puppies & getting off the booze

My inspiration ...

Nature and pre-History

Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the UK Focusing on law enforcement in the UK

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The number of prisoners detained in UK prisons has reached an epic of 82,000, which is around 0.15% of the UK population. 3% of these prisoners are children under the age of 18.

A BBC article on the 22nd of February 2008 reported that UK prisons were about 92 prisoner's overcapacity' and around 8,000 over what the Prison Service said to be "a good, decent standard of accommodation"'. In the same month Justice Secretary Jack Straw asked magistrates to jail fewer people while officials attempt to manage the crisis''. These comments followed what the Guardian reported was a 37% rise in p...

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