EU abandons plans to force UK to go metric

Despite a long campaign to the contrary, the European Union has abruptly dropped plans to phase out the Imperial measurement system in the UK by 2009. Signs and food packaging (and the all important pint) in the...

No chimney sweeps here: London's cost of living soars

Chim-chimeree it's not: gone are the rag-tag days of orphans, chimney sweeps and pickpockets (if those days ever existed outside the pages of Dickens). Today if you want to live in London you need to be more of a...

An Inconvenient Truth: Global Warming is Real and Melting the Glaciers...On M...

Thanks to "Ace of Spades HQ" I came across this interesting news.""Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake. Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C...

How meth took hold on Indian reservation

Side effects of Illegal Immigration and Drugs like Meth on one of the most vulnerable and neglected groups in our country."the story of how meth came to this remote reservation is really quite remarkable. Like a...

TESCO’s USA Operations Go Live Fresh ... And Easy :: Symblogogy

"TESCO’s website that is a cornerstone for the ambitious effort to establish a new brand and way of convenience store positioning went live and online yesterday. With this site, TESCO hopes to establish a...

Turning to God to lose weight

Jordan Rubin is convinced God can help you lose weight. Rubin, author of The Maker's Diet, is fresh from a speaking engagement at Toledo’s Cathedral of Praise. He's in town to spread the word about his yearlong "Healthy Toledo" initiative, the name a church-friendly play on...

Chocolate Jesus Exhibition Cancelled

Sweet Jesus! The bit where the hotel hosting the exhibition expressed concern for its safety caught my eye: threatening someone over an exhibit that one has not even seen is not very Christian, is it?"A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate...

Teenager snubs the BBC's £8.5 million offer for his news website

Teenage media mogul Nick Coates is so confident he will one day be as successful as Rupert Murdoch that he snubbed an offer of £8.5 million pounds from the BBC for his youth news website.

Calamari the size of Dinner Plates

Looks like some fisherman (I assume from New Zealand) have caught a squid which is weighing in at around 900+ pounds. According to a squid expert in New Zealand this monster would produce Calamari rings the size of dinner plates.Now that is some good eating. :)

EMI Says It Recieved An Approach From Warner Music (3rd Update)

"EMI Group Plc, the U.K. music company that cut its forecasts twice in the past month, received a takeover approach from Warner Music Group Corp. in the second attempt at a merger in a year. There is ``no proposal currently for the EMI board to consider,'' the company said...

UK political party pawn shop

"The Popular Alliance has a very important question about the main three political parties, Labour, Tory and Lib dems. The question is this, how on earth do you expect the public to have any confidence in you when...

Seeing Red Around Sacramento

"Ruofs is a party animal. He's "moovelous" at celebrity impersonations, cracks jokes, kicks it with politicians and business leaders, and "marches" in parades. He has been kidnapped, jailed and has scored a...

PASSPORT WARNING FOR WINTER WANDERERS - OVER 290,000 UK PASSPORTS LOST OR STO...

"As the busy winter booking period for holiday makers begins, the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) is reminding holidaymakers to keep their passports safe both at home and when on holiday. In 2006, 290,996 British passports were reported lost or stolen. While many people...

Tall order for relocated charity fair

PLANS for one of the area's biggest county fairs are being made – with hopes that it will raise thousands of pounds for charity. The 11th Rotary County Fair will be held at Kelmarsh Hall for the first time this year and organisers are busy making sure it will be bigger and...

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