Daily Archives: February 18, 2010

Britain’s scaremongers could lose out to foreign competitors, warns expert

helena.handcart
News In Brief
February 18, 2010

Once Britain led the world in scaremongers. Our Fleet Street of panic merchants ruled the waves of anxiety. Nobody could generate an atmosphere of quiet desperation like the Daily Mail. [read...]

Man gives up pretending to give up unrealistic things for Lent, for Lent

jp1885
News In Brief
February 18, 2010

A Shrewsbury man has stunned friends by announcing that he is giving up joking about abstaining from doing things for Lent that he would, in all probability, not be doing anyway, for Lent. [read...]

Judges to use glove puppets to help juries understand the law

carlmaxim
UK News
February 18, 2010

‘The jury love it when I bring them out from under the bench to explain legal terms such as ‘habeus corpus’. [read...]