January 2011 Archives

A WIFE filed for divorce just a month after her wedding because her husband insisted his mother came on the honeymoon.

Beautician Marianna, 36, who can only be identified by her first name because of Italian privacy laws, thought she was free of her suffocating mother-in-law after a lavish church ceremony in Rome.

A TODDLER in blue pyjamas has become a drum and bass sensation after his dance moves attracted millions of internet hits.

In the YouTube clip, two-year-old Fred the Raver dances and pulls faces to his 25-year-old DJ dad Michael Albutt's music.

Mum Holly, 20, a student nursery nurse from Walsall, West Mids, said: "Fred has a lot of natural rhythm.

"You can see how he spends time just absorbing and appreciating the beats.

"Music is in his blood - like father like son."

A group of British scientists are to blast a mobile phone into space to see how it performs in the most extreme conditions.

A disabled man from Dorset has been told he can't use his specially-made wheelchair because it technically counts as a tank.

Campaigners have borrowed all 16,000 of a library's books, to save it from the axe.

They emptied its shelves in less than a week, at a rate of 378 per hour.

People in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, Bucks, rallied round on Facebook after they feared council plans to shut the library.

Campaigner Emily Malleson said: "People have made their voices heard."

A MAN is so proud of the glass coffin he had built that he is using it as a coffee table until he dies.

Giulio Codiglia, 59, of Basanija, Croatia, said: "I like to be prepared and this is a thing of beauty so it would be a sin not to show it off."

A police squad raided a woman's home after a helicopter-mounted device picked up a suspicious amount of heat coming from her home, leading them to believe she was operating an intensive lighting system to grow cannabis.

But in reality the tell-tale sign revealed nothing more nefarious than a heater used to keep pet guinea pigs comfortable.

We've all heard it, we all hate it - the sound of the dentist's drill is more than enough to set most people's teeth on edge and the fear of hearing it is often enough to put many people off getting regular check-ups.

But a device created by experts at King's College London can help avert the worrisome sensation by producing a corresponding sound wave that cancels out the high-pitched whine, while still allowing the dentist's voice to be heard by the patient.