Even when ‘artists’ lipsync, they do sing along, it’s just not boosted out through the P.A. system. However, it may well get isolated and recorded by someone! So what does Britney really sound like?
Bold ideas
The circulation figures for traditional printed newspapers have plummeted in recent years and most major papers now offer free online content. Some have even gone so far as to stop publishing the printed word, preferring to concentrate on their online presence. All British newspapers, for eample, with the exception of the Financial Times, offer exactly the same content (free) online …
What to do?
Not for the first time, and probably not for the last, a man has been fined for moving his vehicle forward one metre to allow a police vcehicle, on an emergency call, to pass. The one metre took him slightly over the stop line at a red light and got him fined for ‘jumping a red light’.
La Palma fire
This video, particularly the second half, shows the ferocity of the fire on the island of La Palma as it threatened the town of Fuencaliente.
It’s pants
A headline like: Astronaut wore pants for a month is bound to attract the eye. Did it mean he didn’t wear any for the rest of the time, or he really did just wear the same pair for a whole month?
Sad end for a legend
Shock in the angling community in the UK after Benson, a 29 kilo (64 lb) carp was found floating belly up in Kingfisher Lake in the Bluebell Lakes complex near Tansor in Peterborough. Benson was transferred to the lake in 1995 as part of a restocking exercise and, at that time, weighed a paltry 24.5lb. Since arrival in the lake, …
Give them circuses…but no animals
A few countries in the world, not many, have taken the step of banning the use of wild animals in circuses, but one country has now taken the next step by banning the use of all animals, wild or domestic.
Elf and Shifty madness
Police, firemen and paramedics refused to go to the aid of an accident victim who was drowning in eighteen inches of water because they ‘believed’ it was too dangerous. A senior fire officer banned his men from using ropes and ladders to climb down a 15 foot embankment to the victim after carrying out a ‘risk assessment’. The slope of the …
The oldest profession
Police in Germany (700 of them!!) raided four brothels, also known as ‘Pussy Clubs’, in Berlin, Fellbach, Heidelberg and Wuppertal, closing down two of them due to poor hygeine. There has been mounting criticism in Germany about the increase in the number of ‘flat-rate’ brothels offering unlimited sex and food for a flat fee in the region of €70 to …
World record attempt
Staff at the Tewkesbury Home Distribution Centre are anxiously waiting to see if their world record attempt will be included in the Guinness Book of Records.