Accident & Emergency departments were put on the highest alert yesterday morning at the start of two whole days without sport, amid reports of cack-handed men emerging from the sofa to tackle the backlog of DIY, often with devastating results.
Posted: Jul 7th, 2009
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Posted: Jun 30th, 2009
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Michelle Larcher de Brito, the latest tennis grunting sensation, was booed off the court at Wimbledon yesterday when it was revealed that she was miming. The crowd turned on the teen star when her ‘wounded fox’ recording began to skip, and continued playing while she was seen to be sitting down eating an energy bar between games.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2009
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New system will allow a fairer spread of restraining orders.
Posted: Jun 24th, 2009
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Endemic tribal warfare, drought, disease, poverty – they are all major concerns to the 4.7 million people of Somalia, but not compared with the certain knowledge that, even as the tournament starts, the winner of the Mens Singles at Wimbledon will not be a Somali. No Somali has ever qualified since Wimbledon began in 1882.
Ibn Hussain Tariri, chief excecutive of the Lawn Tennis Association of Somalia, is the first to admit that the African nation’s record at tennis’s blue riband is not good. However, he is keen for this to be seen in context.
‘People laugh at us for 127 years of failure at Wimbledon but in all fairness it is only 93,’ he says. ‘It was not until 1916 that the Italian governor general laid out the first court in the country.’
Posted: Jun 23rd, 2009
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