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Because schools aren’t violent enough: Boxing is being reintroduced in several schools to help pupils develop their mental and physical skills. Of course! Nothing like the risk of a good old fashioned brain injury to increase fist to eye co-ordination. The director of sport at …

Spare a tear for the poor gas guzzlers of Richmond who are the latest victims of of environmental bullying: A decision to charge higher parking prices for high-polluting vehicles has been branded “unfair” to large families by a motoring organisation. The AA reckons that a …

Windows Vista was launched in the UK today and Bill Gates was on hand to put the operating system through its paces at the British Library Full press release here, but this was the part that caught our eye: Bill Gates and Lynne Brindley, Chief …

We are not having a super casino: Manchester has been chosen as the surprise location of Britain’s first Las Vegas-style super-casino. The decision is a blow for Blackpool and London’s former Millennium Dome which were the bookmakers’ favourites. The licence will allow Manchester to build …

This untitled photo by bhaggs leapt out at us from the contribute stream this morning and you can see why. We’re so used to kids and Americans struggling to mount those lions that it’s a pleasant surprise to see a pair of red clad sirens …

And we continue with the grim theme via Reuters who highlight the plight of Heathrow’s lost children: Hillingdon Council cares for around 1,130 children and young people found wandering abandoned in the world’s biggest airport, Heathrow… Many come to Britain alone, some as young as …

The oddest story we’ve stumbled across in a while: The body of a baby has lain in a mortuary for 20 years because his parents refuse to accept the official cause of death. A pathologist told the parents of Christopher Blum that he died of …

Here’s a neat idea that we’d like to see take off: tubePing. tubePing.com is the only website online whose SOLE purpose is to assist London’s tube and rail community contact that certain somebody that they may have seen whilst on their journey. With 976 million …

We like column by simonrigglesworth because it captures Nelson in a new way. And is it just us or does that Underground sign look a lot like the flying thingamajigs in Tron?

Last week the 2012 organisers were promising that the London Olympics would be the greenest yet. Normally we’d scoff at such a claim, but it looks like this time no one is talking out of their hat. By building part of the Olympic village on …