With Britain’s weather worsening, the Met Office has warned that storms can be expected every other weekend for the foreseeable future. Following established practice, those coming next after Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis will be named in alphabetical order and alternating between male and female names. [read...]
As the shell-shocked inhabitants of the Isle of Wight woke this morning to see that the suspiciously foreign-named Storm Ciara had done thousands, possibly hundreds, of pounds of damage to their once-tranquil home, they were as one in vowing that they will be jolly well rolling up their sleeves and restoring it to its 1950s glory. [read...]
A leaked memo has revealed Registrars have been instructed to disallow parents naming their children ‘poncey’ names after 2020. Out will go Oscar, Max and St John for boys, while for girls, Octavia, Camilla and Allegra will no longer be acceptable. [read...]
Citizens have been advised to batten down the hatches and prepare for the worst in advance of the possible arrival of Hurricane Mitt to the Washington area in the middle of next week. [read...]
A BBC documentary has unearthed new evidence indicating that a glib comment by weatherman Michael Fish 66 million years ago may have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs. [read...]
