December 2010 Archives

BITTERLY cold temperatures during the big freeze brought "icebergs" to the English coast.

Walkers were stunned to see chunks of ice 20ft long and 3ft high drifting across the Irish Sea. It had frozen in places after daytime temperatures plunged as low as -8C.

The mini icebergs - known as Bergy Bits - were in Morecambe Bay, off Arnside, Cumbria.

A Brazilian woman escaped being buried alive by just a few hours when an undertaker noticed she was still breathing.

A 103-year-old woman from Tenby in Pembrokeshire has become the oldest member of Facebook, according to reports.

A couple who live in their own time zone an hour ahead of everyone else say it is the secret to better health and lower bills.

John and Janys Warren stopped putting their clocks back in autumn four years ago - in the belief that darker days triggered his migraines.

Janys, 66, said: "We don't put the heating on until we get up and by then it is warmer anyway. The winter doesn't seem so long.

Experts believe changes in the body's biological clock can trigger severe headaches and John, 70, who used to suffer eight attacks a day, insists his condition has improved.

Their heating and lighting bills are also a third lower now.

John, of St Georges, Somerset, said: "It eased my headaches and it works for us. Some people think we're strange but we lead quiet lives."

Parliament is looking at extending British Summer Time for environmental, safety and tourism reasons.

As Christmas approaches we're all getting prepared for the customary marathon eating binge and the inevitable New Year (oversized) navel-gazing as we contemplate just how much we porked out.

But apparently there is a solution - by simply imagining that you're stuffing your face with turkey, stuffing and mince pies, you'll be less hungry when faced with the opportunity of eating the real thing.

It's a hundred billion dollar blunder.

A printing error with new hi-tech $100 bills in America has forced ­government printers to shut down production.

They have ­quarantined more than a billion of the notes as the Federal Reserve desperately tries to resolve the problem.

SCIENTISTS have invented beer mats for shy drinkers - that chat up girls for them.

The mats, made by students at Newcastle University, "talk" to each other and feature lines like: "If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together."

A DOG walker was left in agony after a hungry horse mistook her Christmas pudding hat for a holly bush - and tried to eat it.

Eileen Samme, 55, was kicked in the leg by the horse, leaving her in hospital with bruising.