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No ban on racist grandparents, say Government

Editor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:41:03 +0000

Grandparents in England should not be banned from spending time with the grandchild, despite their frequent adherence to casual racism, a review has concluded.

Take That star sorry for being caught cheating by The Sun

Editor — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:58:43 +0000

Take That star Mark Owen yesterday apologised to his wife for being caught by a tabloid and being forced to confess his indiscretion to millions of gullible idiots via their daily comic.

Courts rule you must listen to all the rubbish Pink Floyd songs too

Andrew Owen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:32:29 +0000

Millions of music lovers were left reeling today after a High Court judge ruled they could no longer download "just the good bits" from online music retailers and must in future download an album in its turgid entirety.

Facebook criticised as man impersonates a girl who pretends to be a man

Editor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:42:22 +0000

Social networking website Facebook has come in for stiff criticism after a 45 year-old man, working for the Daily Mail, used the site to pretend to be a 14 year-old girl who in turn was impersonating a 45 year-old man.

Police defend ‘ignore it until it goes away’ crime fighting tactics

Editor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:49:26 +0000

Police have defended themselves against criticism by Denis O'Connor, the chief inspector of constabulary, by saying that ignoring crime problems in the vain hope that they will go away is a long established policing tactic.

Nation left wondering how Beckham felt about Manchester return

Editor — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:23:01 +0000

The nation’s sports fans have been left to wonder why nobody in the sports news industry thought to speculate upon, or even ask David Beckham how he felt about his return to Manchester United. Last nights match was his first appearance at old Trafford since his summer 2003 departure to Real Madrid, a fact that has [...]

Learner drivers to be told being hit by a train is a ‘bad thing’

Editor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:01:01 +0000

The driving test should have compulsory questions on the basic laws of physics, and the effects of banging a rapidly-moving metallic train into your Vauxhall Corsa, Network Rail has said.

I know that’s what you are, but what am I, Ahmadinejad asks US

Editor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:29 +0000

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last night told the US, "I know that's what you are, but what am I?" after the Americans accused him of playing a "double game" in Afghanistan.

Calls for tighter controls on socially unaware dogs

Jon Price — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:07:39 +0000

There have been renewed calls for tighter controls on annoyingly over-familiar dogs today after a border collie persistently sniffed a Doncaster man's groin during a social occasion.

Chatroulette takes on YouTube in cretinous comments battle

Editor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:06:10 +0000

The Internet was last night preparing itself for an epic battle of halfwits as two of the web’s biggest sites went to war with tech analysts suggesting the scrap between YouTube’s comments and Chatroulette could be the most ‘depraved and utterly cretinous’ in history.