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The BBC’s natural history unit have shed new light on television cables and their secret entanglements behind the TV stand. Using revolutionary time-lapse photography, wildlife cameraman James Forester captured previously unseen footage of the complex interaction between aerial wires, power cables and SCART leads in their natural habitat.
A charity calendar featuring fully clothed women posing in and around Cheltenham’s Pump Room is making waves around the world after it appeared on YouTube.
The 2010 calendar, in which twelve Cheltenham ladies pose in a variety of strategically placed modest camera shots wearing only tweed twin sets, has received orders from as far away as Yorkshire pit villages. Ex-miner Tom Bristow, 78, said: ‘I’ve ordered a dozen for me and me mates down at the Labour Club. They’re proper lovely calendars, with the Cheltenham ladies reclining outside the Pump Room or going about their daily chores like knitting or making jam, and dressed only in body-hugging tweed twin sets and wearing pearls. We’ve never seen anything like it up here in these parts.’
An unusual romance may be about to make US legal history. Leila Fay-Baker, a Wisconsin correctional officer, who fell in love with an inmate and plans to marry him, is expected to overturn a decision to fire her from her job at the Mount Gully prison facility in June of this year.
Brian Nayar and Mark Bridle, once the greatest of friends have now become the fiercest of enemies after a series of disagreements over a shared memory from their formative teenage years in which one of them apparently urinated out of an upstairs window onto the head of a police officer below. After failing to come to an agreement over which one of them was the urinator and which one was talking to the policeman at the time they both feel they have reached an impasse where only astute legal minds can make the decision for them.
