British Shin Kicking Championship

"The crowd that assembled on Dover’s Hill near Chipping Campden last Friday weren’t in the Cotswolds for views of the rolling countryside.They came instead for scenic pleasures of sheer, shinbone-shattering violence that forms part of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.To the...

Unprecedented UK property slump sounds big alarm bells « Peterjcooper’s We...

Prime UK commercial property prices in the South-East have slumped by around 25 per cent in the past two quarters, with yields hardening from 4.5 to six per cent, an unprecedented shift in property values estimated at a one in 15,000 year probability!

Artist turns Mount Everest's trash into treasures

"Artist turns Mount Everest's trash into treasures The Associated Press Published: January 14, 2007 BRUNSWICK, Maine: Thousands of adventurers have been drawn to Mount Everest by the challenge of climbing to the top of the world. Jeff Clapp was drawn by the trash they leave...

Gunmen kill Russia's crime-fighting banker - Guardian Unlimited

" Jonathan Steele: Russia deserves more than stability from Putin's last year The boys from Argentina - via Brazil and a secretive offshore finance company Russian Central Bank official assassinated Russian anti-corruption official shot dead Michael Mainville: on Madonna in...