April 2010 Archives

An online Street Fighter-style game has given Gillian Duffy, the woman who Gordon Brown called 'bigoted', a chance to get one over on the prime minister.

Children feel safer in the car when mum is driving, a study revealed yesterday.

A 45-year-old man thought it'd be a good idea to buy a motor cruiser and sail around Great Britain. However, due to the would-be-sailor's ineptitude, he ended up going around the Isle off Sheppey off Kent for 36 hours.

CHINESE and Turkish evangelical explorers believe they may have found Noah's Ark - 4,000m up a mountain in Turkey.

Grey squirrels, which originally came from America, are now so widespread throughout Britain that a scientific report has suggested granting them 'ecological citizenship'.

A mail driver today described how he threw away a £100,000 winning scratchcard because he misunderstood the rules of the game.

What's that phrase I'm groping for... erm.... ah yes: "Only in America".......

A town has elected a dead man as its mayor.

A political party has launched its manifesto ahead of the General Election - and its transport policy includes a call for the introduction of floating bicycles, so people can cycle on rivers and canals to ease congestion.

Butchers have been banned from deboning lamb joints - in case they cut themselves.

Swedish authorities became suspicious after a man fetched up at a hospital's A&E department in the early hours looking for a baby's bottle for a 'girl' that had just been born on a farm.