UK Plunges into Red: "Faces Bigger Debt Crisis Than Greece"

Official figures sent the pound sliding yesterday as it was revealed the government had borrowed £4.3 billion in January.  Normally in January, annual tax revenues push the Exchequer into the black.  It is the first time there has been a deficit in January since...

Catcher in the Rye and Bananafish Author JD Salinger Dies

Jerome David Salinger has died aged 91 at his home in New Hampshire.  Creator of the character Holden Caulfield, whose perception of the world as being full of "phonies" touched a chord with a whole baby-boomer generation, followed by Gen X and still sells well today....

Hell Hath No Fury - Mistress Takes Revenge on Obama Aide

Fifty ways to leave your lover : go back to your wife!  But revenge strikes back when the lover puts up a "soulmates" billboard.  "The giant images of YaVaughnie Wilkins and Charles E Phillips in happier times have the words "You are my soulmate forever!" above...

Brawling Teachers in "Cat Fight" Lose Employment Tribunal Claim

Two female teaching staff at a primary school have lost their claims for unfair dismissal at an Employment Tribunal in London.  One case was heard  in November, when Phillipa Heath-Philpotts, described as "an expert in controlling aggressive children" lost her...

Singing and Playing the Digeridoo - New Treatment for Asthma

An Australian Doctor, Robert Eley, of University of Southern Queensland, has shown that the symptoms of asthma in children may be improved by regularly playing wind instruments.  Dr. Eley took a group of Australian Aborigine boys and gave them digeridoo lessons for six...

Heart Attacks "Linked to Stress" - New Study Shows

We all know of people who have chest pains when under stress, and this alarming symptom is often written off as "indigestion".  However, now it seems it could be true that the heart is affected by stress and is not just folklore. Doctors at University College Hospital,...