Bargain hunter Eric Standing got less than he bargained for when he bought a painting ‘on a whim’ at his local car boot sale. The painting caught his eye as he rummaged through a pile of loathsome knick-knacks, [read...]
A report in the newspapers this week that Britain’s prisons were ‘overcrowded, unhygienic and crime-ridden’ has becpme an instant front-runner to win the Annual News Story of the Year. It faces stiff competition from ‘Roof Torn From Double Decker As It Passes Under Low Bridge’, [read...]
‘We haven’t seen this particular approach before, in which a man quite brazenly waves a large deposit at sales staff before producing a pen and ruthlessly signing document after document, before riding off on his healthily-gotten gains,’ said a police spokesman. [read...]
Champion rally driver Tim Nicolas has parted company with co-driver Andy O’Brien following a disastrous performance in the FIA World Rallycross Championships at Lyddon Hill. “As a navigator, his directions were hopeless,” an exasperated Nicolas explained. [read...]
A ‘Catalogue of Errors’, described as the first-ever attempt to showcase series of catastrophic failings in areas such as healthcare, the prison service, crowd control, defence and industry, will be published on March 15 ‘barring accidents’, [read...]
