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Tesco to improve Finest range by adding extra words

Tesco has revealed plans to improve its highly popular ‘Finest’ range by the addition of extra words. This, it said, will enable aspirational customers to separate themselves from the mass of consumers.

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Posted: Jul 17th, 2011
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OED rules that everything is now officially ‘gay’

Compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary have declared that everyone and everything must be defined as gay from now on. According to editor-in-chief Dr Mark Boyle, a team of linguistic experts from universities up and down Britain had studied every field of modern life and failed to find anything that is not gay.

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Posted: Jul 16th, 2011
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Proclaimers’ 1,000-mile walk to woman’s door ends in harassment charge

Musicians Craig and Charlie Reid were last night charged with aggravated sexual harassment. It is alleged that the Scottish twins had walked 500 miles and then walked 500 more to throw themselves at the feet of Jennifer Davenport, a 28-year-old primary school teacher from Brighton they had become infatuated with.

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Posted: Jul 7th, 2011
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Hot summer could wipe out Goth population, experts warn

‘Drought conditions aren’t an issue since they rarely wash, but they are poorly equipped to deal with high temperatures as they can’t take off their black jeans and duffel coats.’

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Posted: Jul 4th, 2011
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Anger as National Trust house-breeding plans end in fiasco

MontacuteThe plan came under fire following a failed attempt to mate the Somerset-based Elizabethan manor Montacute House with the ruins of Corfe Castle in Dorset.

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Posted: Jul 3rd, 2011
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