Category: Interesting news stories
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Media Sinks To New Depths in Jade Goody Saga.
The reality TV personality Jade Goody’s battle with cancer has been well publicised in the past few weeks. Her publicist Max Clifford has been milking the poor girls situation for all its worth and obtaining maximum publicity on the grounds that he wants to earn as much money as possible for Jade Goody’s children. Several…
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Dancing Cop – My Video Of The Week
I’m always on the lookout for unusual funny videos, so when I found this one I thought it would be a good one to call my YouTube Video of the week. It just shows that cops have a sense of humour too ! Nice moves from this Rhode Island US cop. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ7GiJqMFLs&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1]
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Woman Calls 911 Over Chicken McNuggets
The emergency services are always complaining about some of the emergency telephone calls that they receive. The 999 and 911 services are meant to be for emergency calls only. Last week, however, a woman in Florida called the 911 emergency service after her local McDonald’s ran out of Chicken McNuggets ! Latreasa Goodman had ordered…
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Britain’s Most Unfortunate Names
Choosing a babies name at birth is a difficult job but it is an important job because, whilst stating the obvious, you are stuck with your name for life ! The Baby Centre website has released some research about the more unfortunate names that babies are given. Spare a thought then for Justin Case, Barb…
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Tea Drinking Is Good For You.
A study carried out by the University of California has found that drinking at least three cups of tea a day may help prevent strokes. It is a well known fact that black tea and green tea contain anti-oxidants which protect cells in the body. Vegetables have similar cell protecting anti-oxidants especially brocoli. I have…
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Woman Finds £800M In Her Bank Account.
We all dream of winning the lottery and finding ourselves with millions of pounds in our current bank account. What would it be like to find yourself with no money worries apart from the problem of how to spend it all. Well imagine what a Swedish woman must have been thinking after she checked her…
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Eating Burgers Is Not A Punishment
I was looking at some news from last week when I read the details again about Damon Buffini, the millionaire chairman of private equity firm Permira. It was reported that he gave partners in his firm a dressing down and ordered them to eat burgers – after one of them complained about the standard of food at…
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Dine Out For 2p, But Only If You Have No Shame !
Customers of a London restaurant can pay what they think the food is worth ! That’s right, a London restaurant owner has scrapped all the prices on his menu and said that his customers can choose anything on the menu and afterwards pay the amount that they think the meal is worth. As a result…
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Tough On Crime, Tougher On Grime !
It seems that every step we take and every move we make in our towns and cities is watched by CCTV cameras. We are one of the most watched nations in the world. All in the name of crime prevention we are told. However, it seems the police are getting some of their own medicine…
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Mobile Phone Chargers To Be Standardized
At long last the European Union have done something useful. I have always been of the opinion that there are far too many politicians and so called decision makers ruling all our lives. Bureaucracy is the scourge of society but it seems too many people want to be the boss rather than actually produce something…
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Amazing Photographs of Australia Fires
The recent bush fires in Australia were terrible and to think that some people were suspected of deliberately starting the fires is beyond comprehension. Like most people I saw the images on the TV news but now I have found some amazing high definition photos of the fires. Click the link below and prepare to be…
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In Four Years We Will Find Aliens Say Experts !
I have written one or two blog posts recently about UFO’s and about the probability of alien life on other planets and now experts speaking at a science conference in the USA think we could even find the first inhabited planet in the next FOUR years ! The so called experts say that our galaxy is…