Network Rail Employees Will Travel To Conference By Bus

Network Rail employees in the UK have been instructed to travel to a conference in Coventry by bus in order to save on transportation costs. The company has recently been forced to reduce their costs by 21 percent...

Diwali Concert sets World Record at 30 Hours as the longest show

When the clock struck 12:30 AM on Oct 11th 2009, standing at the stage with volunteers and performers in front of thousands of cheering spectators, announced Roger Nair with friend and...

Teenage Natalie Morton Death Caused By Tumor, Not HPV Shot

Natalie Morton recently died after receiving a shot for cervical cancer at her school in Coventry. Morton's death caused a scare regarding the HPV shot that all the girls in Natalie's school were receiving on Monday as part of a National Health Service immunization program. ...

Cancer jab 'unlikely' death cause

Yesterday, I highlighted a news story which reported that a 14-year-old girl in England had died shortly after receiving the jab which vaccinates against cervical cancer. It transpires today that it is unlikely that the vaccination jab brought about Morton's death, but rather...

Natalie Morton Dies After Receiving HPV Shot

Natalie Morton died in a hospital soon after she received a cervical cancer  or HPV vaccine and fell ill at her school in Coventry, UK.  Britain's National Health Service began offering the Cervarix...

Motorist dumps his passenger in crash in hit and run

Another messy day on Britain's dangerous roads:COVENTRY, England. Not only did this motorist mindlessly crash into a 'stationary vehicle' but he callously dumped his passenger and sped off without bothering to call for an ambulance.Fortunately, there was a witness.The dark...

Why Is Facebook Trying To Be Twitter?

Facebook is driving me crazy.  Only a few days after I made a post talking about how Facebook differs from Twitter and why I was changing how I use the Facebook service that Facebook decides to make major changes and become more like Twitter. The gist of my previous post...

Connecticut: Car rams into Horse & Cart on brow of a hill

This comes from Kent County News, 21st July 2009, although cars ramming into horses is not an isolated incident, it is quite common. In this case, the motorist was uninjured, as cars are better protected with safety features, whereas the female carriage...

The Godiva Syndrome - psychic sump discovered

The phrase 'sent to Coventry' describes the action taken against someone when a group decides to shun and not talk to an individual that was part of their cultural group. Psychic researchers have now described a...

London Black cabs suspended after fire

The eight London black cab has burst into flames in three months, prompting more concerns over the safety of the vehicles. Five hundred of the cabs have been taken off the roads this morning in response to the...

Five die in mid-air plane collision

Two planes collided in midair over Coventry on Sunday, killing five people. Wreckage from the crash streched several kilometres, but no one on the ground was injured. "Five people died today after two aircraft...

Zimbabwe's Coventry defends title in backstroke

Coventry successfuly defended her title at the 2008 Olympics. I managed to catch this on CBC's olympic coverage last night on the only channel i have.  this woman's face was so composed the entire time i was completely impressed. "With the wider world waiting for Michael...

Surrogacy Still Stigmatized, Though Attitudes Changing Among Younger Women

" ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — Although younger people are becoming more positive towards surrogate mothers, current day attitudes to surrogacy are still broadly negative, a scientist will tell the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human...

Sunday's gossip column | BBC Football

"Big Phil will bid £40m for Liverpool striker Fernando Torres. (News of the World) But the Spanish international has reassured Liverpool fans that he has no desire to leave Liverpool. (Sunday Express) Ronaldinho would love to sign for Chelsea and be reunited with Scolari,...

Leeds eye 'fantastic achievement'

Let's not get too far ahead, it needs to be won first, but if they hadn't had the 15 point deduction, they would be one point behind Swansea in an automatic promotion place, and nine ahead of Forest, who go up....

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