‘Unfortunately,’ said psychiatrist Dr Karen Young, ‘the Duke seems to be back to that previous period of robust form when, during a state visit to China, he told a group of British students: ‘If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed’; or when he told a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea:’You managed not to get eaten,then?’
Posted: Feb 22nd, 2013
More from News In Brief
In 2008 Rebecca Adlington put Mansfield on the map with her heroics at the Beijing Olympics, filling a slightly embarrassing gap south of Sheffield. Now success from other British sports stars means that ‘at least 90% of the towns in Britain’ feature on road maps.
Posted: Aug 4th, 2012
More from Arts/Entertainment, Sport, UK News
A delegation of US and Italian politicians have launched a high-profile conference in London to teach British politicians how to stop fannying about claiming Commons expenses for gardening costs, and switch to proper corruption like dumping your ex-lover’s body in the local river and then having the judge trying you shot by a hitman.
Posted: Jun 11th, 2012
More from News In Brief
There may be hope for the ailing UK economy, after researchers found that Britain’s pubs are ‘chock full’ of technocrats.
Posted: Nov 17th, 2011
More from UK News
UK diplomats have asked for urgent reassurances from the US after news reports that President Barack Obama has ‘rekindled’ the special relationship between Poland and the USA.
Posted: May 30th, 2011
More from World News
Loading...