Oral exams ‘would be fairer to left handers’ who fall behind in English and history

British sniper takes out five Taliban fighters in 28 seconds. The enemy insurgents were more than a mile away when the sniper, a corporal serving with 4 Rifles, got the all clear to take them out.

From the Mail Online: Tony Fuller, 77, caused tailbacks of up to four miles on the A35 in Chideock, Dorset, going back and forth across a pedestrian crossing on the busy tourist.

Amel Marmouri, 26, was handed a penalty of 500 euros (£430) after being spotted by police officers in a post office in the northern city of Novara. Husband: We thought as she was going to the mosque she was OK to wear the burqa. Even I can manage to tell the difference between a mosque and a post office!

Manish Sood, the north-west Norfolk candidate for Labour, has called Gordon Brown the worst Prime Minister Britain has ever had and said he should say sorry to Britain and to the Queen. What’s this, an honest politician? He won’t last long….

In a TV interview with Jeremy Paxman, Gordon Brown tried to explain away his ‘bigot’ remark by saying he’d mistakenly linked her concerns about immigration with those about university tuition fees for her grandchildren. Maybe he should confer with his spin doctors so they can get their stories/excuses straight.

Gordon Brown insulted ‘bigot’ pensioner ‘because he thought she had sworn about immigrants’ Must be a knighthood, at least, in the offing for the spin doctor who spent all night coming up with this implausible straw to clutch at.

Andy Murray hopes break with smooth out rough patch The Daily Express presumably knows what it means.

Treachery of Mandelson: He’s ready to back Miliband as Brown’s replacement

Hugo Chavez to join Twitter