Mystery of Stonehenge solved following discovery of 5000-year-old planning application
‘Stonehenge was going to be the world’s first out of town shopping centre,’
Posted: Jun 24th, 2009
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Hospital bugs ‘are being neglected’
National Health bosses are on the defensive today following a series of damaging exposés about the treatment of bugs at NHS hospitals. Ever since the damning tale of a Staphylococcus cluster being left to die on a hospital bedpan hit the headlines, newspapers have been full harrowing testimonies from viruses, fungi, prions and protozoa, all desperate to share their story.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2009
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Condemned chicken admits free-range lifestyle ‘doesn’t make the end any easier’
Corn-fed poultry from Meadow Farm, Cornwall spoke out yesterday against the widespread belief that free-range farming makes for happier hens. ‘Everyone raves about animal welfare these days,’ noted a coop representative, ‘but when your fate is inexorably linked with gravy, it’s hard to feel like you’re faring that well.’
Posted: Jun 23rd, 2009
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New digital radio provides ‘authentic hiss’ when owner more than an arm’s distance away
Citing the earlier public nostalgia for the crackles and pops of vinyl that accompanied the CD boom, the developers of DAB digital radio claimed to have re-created ‘the genuine wireless experience’ with a new feature that causes marginally intolerable hiss when a radio is left unattended.
Posted: Jun 23rd, 2009
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Somalia laments another year of Wimbledon frustration
‘It’s difficult when the only two tennis courts in Somalia are given over to grazing cattle.’
Posted: Jun 23rd, 2009
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