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Family 'ran fake £1 coin factory'

I have always thought that coin forgery was not worth while doing, but evidently not and at a guess others are making their own money. Coins are in fact easier to forge than paper money. I expect it was the weight...

Government virus expert paid £116k. The Swine flue scam unfolds!

" A scientist who advises the Government on swine flu is a paid director of a drugs firm making hundreds of millions of pounds from the pandemic. Professor Sir Roy Anderson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group...

How does a 20p become worth £50...

How great would it be if you had a twenty pence peice in your purse or pocket and it turned out it was worth £50... Well you could have if you live in the UK. The Royal Mint, who creates the coins made a mistake...

Did you know that Sarah Palin-haters are still trying to prove she didn’t g...

" Michelle Malkin: Truthers to the Left of Me, Truthers to the Right "Did you know that Sarah Palin-haters are still trying to prove she didn’t give birth to her youngest son, Trig? These tinfoil hat-wearers are as obnoxious and unhinged as the 9/11 Truth cultists who...

27-year-old Missing Wisconsin Mother

"The Jackson County Sheriff's Department and friends and family of a missing woman are asking for your help. Friends say 27-year-old Alisha Sidie was last seen on Friday night leaving her home in Hatfield, near...

UK house prices fall at record annual rate in Oct

Uk home prices are continuing to plummet, causing a great amount of anxiety for the sector. House prices fell at a record rate this month in the UK."British house prices fell in October at their sharpest annual rate since records began in 1991, the Nationwide building society...

Indian author Aravind Adiga wins Man Booker Prize 2008

Beating predictions by bookies and others, debutant Indian novelist 33-year-old Aravind Adiga's book "The White Tiger" was on Wednesday declared the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2008.Adiga beat favourite Sebastian Barry to take the 50,000 pound...

Fat boy executed

Good riddens"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ohio death row inmate was executed Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute plea that he was too overweight to be put to death. ...

Barclays, RBS in Talks on U.K. Government Funding

RBS and Barclays banks in the UK are thought to be the next to be in trouble, with shares in both banks plummeting today. It is thought that the UK government is going to take partial ownership in both banks."The U.K. government may invest at least 45 billion pounds ($79...

BIGGEST looser in finencial meltdown....

Once the richest person on the globe is now te bigest looser in the finencial meltdown he lost 16 billion pound .Share price and steel price is significantly coming lower and lower in chances of more loss is...

Cause of 'Treeman's' barklike growths revealed

"(CNN) -- For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots. ...

Osborne says he won't bail out bust UK bankers

The Conservative Party in the UK is havig their party conference today, and as could be expected they are focusing largely on the economy. The shadow chancellor George Osborne has said that the conservatives would not bail out any banks if they were in power. This is...

Plastic-Devouring Bacteria Could Keep Soda Bottles Out of Landfills

Most bacteria are our friends and here is another example of it.  I can't remember the reference, but I remember reading about a student who worked on this problem as a science fair project.  His high...

NY State Fair butter sculpture to be turned into biodiesel fuel

The NY State Fair opened today, and after the fair ends this year's butter sculpture will be turned into biodiesel fuel for the first time.   "This year's New York State Fair has brought something new...

Bosses hiring diet police to stop office workers piling on the pounds

I wonder if NowPublic will start hiring these Weight Watchers and have mandatory weekly weigh-ins. Looking around the office now, we definitely do not need one of these and it would be a total waste of money. It...

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