The Labour Party has applied to the High Court in a bid to overturn the injunction currently in place on all political media coverage of Ed Miliband. The original gagging order was taken out the day after Mr. Miliband became leader and is due to be lifted in June.
Posted: May 18th, 2011
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A food critic for a leading Sunday newspaper missed a junction on the North Circular on Wednesday – and ended up visiting a restaurant well outside London.
Posted: May 18th, 2011
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The European emotional currency markets were in turmoil today following the surprise devaluation of the Gallic shrug against a range of European cultural idiosyncrasies.
Posted: May 18th, 2011
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A spokesman for the Metropolitan police announced the introduction of a dedicated, automated bomb alert phoneline today. The phoneline, which will be an 0845 number, should be introduced by the end of the month.
‘Since we outsourced all emergency ’999′ calls to our call centre in Mumbai, we noticed some alarming statistics. Customers wishing to make a coded bomb threat were leaving negative feedback about the way their calls were dealt with,’ explained Chief Inspector Townsend. ‘The call centre staff just couldn’t understand many of the thick, Irish accents, or the plummy, nasal tones of animal rights extremists.’
Posted: May 17th, 2011
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Faced with budget cuts and the prospect of a resurgent Taliban with revenge attacks from Al-Qaeda, the British Army in Afghanistan has proposed an innovative and cheap way of protecting its soldiers – the immediate painting of green or blue cycle lanes across all strategic flashpoints in Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
Posted: May 17th, 2011
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