Well Londonist has run two animal stories into one here, on account of not wanting to look like we’ve gone soft. And to keep all parties happy, there’s a doggy one, and a kitty one. Although the cat one is actually rather sad: the business …
The last woman ever to be hanged by the British government, Ruth Ellis, is back in the news 52 years after her execution. A petition to have the Ellis case reopened is being supported by Gordon Brown after new evidence possibly exonerating Ellis was brought …
One idiot leaves a bag in Terminal 4, 108 flights are cancelled. Count Gottfried von Bismarck dies, possibly drug related. Open air proms company in liquidation due to over-liquidation. Where’s the most hole-ridden road in Bucks? Boris Johnson for London Mayor? We’ll be keeping a …
An LDA report suggests that unexploded WWII bombs pose an insidious threat to the Olympics. Quoth the Ken: Of course there’s a risk of bombs. We did get a lot of dropped on us during the war and we haven’t found them all yet. The …
Tomorrow night BBC1 will host a mighty contest of song to find the UK’s Eurovision entry. We’re the last country to choose their entry, so we know exactly what we’re up against (as the line-up draw has already taken place). The UK entry will be …
Childrens’ literature is big business at the moment and currently, everyone has a reading age of about 12. But while Harry Potter, Alex Ryder, the Series of Unfortunate Events and His Dark Materials are seeing us through long train journeys and creating amusing scenarios in …
The Bucks Free Press has another scoop: DOCTORS at Princess Alexandra Hospital are calling on parents to take more care when their children play on the garden trampoline. The hospital’s accident and emergency team has noticed a steady increase in the number of children they …
Remember the 20th Century when the camera never lied? At least according to sage chroniclers of the time, Bucks Fizz. Well, this century, doctoring images is all the rage – the Daily Mirror practically makes a selling point out of it, and even the Olympic …
Public Enemy frontman Chuck D’s line “don’t believe the hype” is up there as an aphorism which cuts to the quick and right down to size. With this in mind, approach if you will the unbelievable buzz surrounding the launch of the Da Vinci Code …
How the mighty have fallen. Once the scourge of Time Lords, Thals, Roy Castle and Bernard Cribbins the mighty Daleks seem to have fallen on hard times. Of course the new generation of angry pepperpots are doing pretty well in a touchy feely/addicted to reality …
