The Government has come under fire after announcing it was to replace 3,000 public sector staff with indigenous animals from Britain’s forests.
Posted: Jul 17th, 2010
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The human-like fossils found this week in Saudia Arabia indicate that this very close relative was a pretty mean golf player and probably played off a handicap of eight, experts warned last night.
The skeletal remains were discovered in a sandy pit, with a pouch made from animal hides which contained a series of wooden ‘clubs’ of varying sizes. Analysis of shoulder joints showed wear and tear typical of that produced by a golf swing.
Posted: Jul 16th, 2010
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Nick Clegg is still to locate the toilets in the Prime Minister’s Downing Street residence, a close confidant revealed yesterday. ‘People keep deliberately misinforming him,’ explained the source.
Posted: Jul 16th, 2010
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Karen Davis, a 35-year-old Human Resources professional working for London law firm Slaughter and May, spoke yesterday of her warm attachment for the tattoo she got on her shoulder when aged seventeen in a bid to impress her then boyfriend.
Posted: Jul 16th, 2010
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Facebook tribute pages and illiterate floral shrines to Raoul Moat, the 37-year-old Tyneside bouncer who shot his ex-girlfriend, her partner and a police officer, turning the gun on himself following a week-long manhunt, have caused outrage in parliament and the press, with columnists falling over themselves to decipher what this says about Britain.
Conspicuous by their silence, though, were members of the bouncer community themselves, and this reluctance to comment was seen by many in the wider community as tacitly condoning Moat’s manifesto of misogyny and his hatred for the police, perhaps even seeking to elevate him to martyr status, or as one commentator put it, ‘our generation’s Diana’.
Posted: Jul 15th, 2010
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