If you get burgled or attacked these days, little chance of an officer of the law turning up. Wake up a sleeping dormouse, though, and the sirens wail.
World’s cheapest car
The Indian car manufacturer Tata, owners of Jaguar and Land Rover, has today launched what it describes as the ‘world’s cheapest car’.
Sabacoín 2009
For anyone interested in horses, the annual Sabacoín horse fair is well worth a visit. It takes place at the Cantarranas Industrial Estate in Coín from March 26th to March 29th and it forms part of the classification rounds for the Spanish Championships for P.R.E. (Pura Raza Española).
I need a drink
It may soon be the case that if you get a text message or email from Rose saying ‘I fancy a drink’, it might not be from the girl you’ve been trying to pluck up the courage to ask out, but from your houseplant.
Yes and no
Spanish man in world first as he prepares to give birth to TWINS Well, yes and no. Like the American before him, Ruben Noe Coronado was actually born a woman and although now ‘officially’ a man, retained the female reproductive organs. He interupted the sex change surgery to become pregnant.
Rumbled
Another Labour MP has been ‘rumbled’ after claiming around £60,000 in expenses for his ‘second home’, which actually turns out to be where his parents live.
Pilot avoids custodial sentence
A pilot, acting as First Officer on a flight to San Francisco and who was three times over the alcohol limit, escaped a custodial sentence after pleas from his bosses.
Woman gives birth on plane
Amazing to think how a woman could give birth in an airplane toilet on a three-and-a-half hour flight and not be noticed, either by her prolonged absence or the inability of anyone else being able to get to the loo. After giving birth, the woman dumped the baby in the toilet waste bin and disembarked, and it wasn’t until an …
You have to laugh
Not so long ago, there was much debate as to whether the boxed DVD set of classic films given to Mr Bean by President Barack Obama was a suitable gift. Apparently, Mr Bean sat down to watch one of these classics and was greeted with the words ‘wrong region’. The DVD’s are only for the North American market. According to …
Volcano erupts near Tonga
Dramatic pictures as an underground volcano erupts close to the Tonga coast in the South Pacific Ocean.