After a 33 year run, the BBC’s Crimewatch is to come to an end, with an extended 5 hour episode which will, according to the show’s creator, ‘resolve all plot threads left hanging over the years’. [read...]
Oxford and Cambridge Universities are being encouraged to accept increased numbers of academically able teenagers from Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, even though their West Country drawl makes them sound rather stupid. The initiative follows a report which shows that Oxford and Cambridge Universities have a disproportionately high percentage of students from the Home Counties. [read...]
Roger Martindale, a 48-year-old chartered surveyor from Bromsgrove, has returned from a trip down memory lane by playing conkers in the back garden with his 12-year-old son Nigel in the evening mist. Unfortunately the memories that were revived were all awful, [read...]
25 years after the hit movie, Back to the Future, scientists at Cerne have discovered time travellers from the real future have already made a prequel to the film, which was secretly released ten years before the 1989 original, [read...]
‘Originally our one child policy was accused of being anti human rights,’ said Derek Smythe. ‘But our prosperity rose, especially where pick and mix was concerned, as a result of decreased pilferage.’ [read...]
