The increase in the price of this year's Christmas dinner is expected to result in a sharp rise in the number of instances of illegal cross-border turkey trafficking, according to animal rights groups.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) repor...
Norfolk - The Duke of Edinburgh is about to snuff it and has been taken to the local crem in an austerity move bypassing the usual tedious formalities - like intensive care.
A spokesperson for the Happy Chappy Royal Toasting Company said tonight P...
WASHINGTON - Just prior to boarding Air Force One this morning to join Michelle and the girls in Hawaii, President Obama poured it on conservative Tea Party activists by calling them "Tin Horn Tokers" for not buying enough marijuana and cocaine to ke...
More people than ever before now spend most of their spare time 'passing time'.
In a recent European survey of several thousand people (who were just hanging about), over 90% of them said their main pastime was passing the time.
"A few years ag...
A man was arrested in connection with 11 huggings in York.
The 65-year-old pensioner would allegedly target elderly women who were walking along the street alone.
"I was desperately skint and I needed the money. But I don't like robbing or thie...
Giovanni O'Malley, owner of O'Malley's, the only Irish Italian tavern on Staten Island, held a press conference on Wednesday to update his followers on the status of negotiations with the US Government for the withdrawal of Staten Island from the uni...
LOS ANGELES - The rumors about who Kobe Bryant was messing around with causing his wife Vanessa to file divorce papers keep swirling out of the infamous rumor mill.
Names that have been mentioned include Jessica Burciaga, Carla DiBello, Sanaa Lath...
After Russia's latest disastrous attempt to launch a Soyuz-2 rocket, which exploded somewhere between here and the heavens, they have decided to ask Mongolia if they could offer them some advice in rocket-launching.
The debris of the failed Soyuz...
President Obama is reportedly angered by the attention Tim Tebow is getting from his "antics" on the field when he kneels down after a touchdown at a football game.
The quarterback for the Denver Broncos has caused quite a stir in the White House...
The Surrey coastguard were called to the Tesbury's Supermarket in Dorking yesterday to rescue Ashley Darr, a local resident, trapped in the vegetable isle.
"It was terrible," said Celia North, manager of the store. "There were hundreds of people j...
Budget airline Flyinair have defended the £6 charge per passenger for all flights booked using a credit or debit card as fair, the sum simply covering the costs of booking flights.
'We have to write down the information from the credit or debit c...
Washington, DC - An disoriented pig-wolf hybrid was found roaming wild in the halls of Congress in the nations Capitol, authorities said Thursday.
Capitol police found the approximately seven hundred pound pig-wolf near the entrance where lobbyist...
Namibia - The 130lb orb is used to store hydrazine aboard the ISS where its inorganic compound liquids facilitate the flushing of the space station dumper.
Its mystery appearance in the desert 480 miles from the Namibian capital Windhoek has rattl...
The Leveson Inquiry has, thus far, clearly identified the underlying philosophy and ethos of British tabloid journalism.
Central to this ethos has been found to be dishonesty, bullying, political manipulation and a complete disregard for what might be considered as civilised standards of behaviour.
'The Inquiry is now moving on,' confirmed Lord Justice Leveson, this week, 'to examine what h...
Katie Price (aka Jordan) may be the first star to be having problems with leaky French tit implants.
Price's PR gurus announced yesterday that one of her tits seems to be smaller than the other, a sure sign of problems. One guy said: 'Ms Price fe...
David Cameron has announced that all atheists will not automatically receive religious themed holidays from 2012.
Following bilge from evolutionist crackpot Richard Dawkins, who claims Cameron is not a genuine Christian, Cameron has retaliated by...
An American Indian woman who faced ridicule for converting to Christianity and fled to Quebec is likely to become the first indigenous saint in North America, if we ignore the several native saints in Mexico and Central America. Pope Benedict XVI sig...
LOS ANGELES - The Final Three soon became the Final Two as hip hop rapper Chris Rene was the first to be eliminated on the season finale of X-Factor.
And Rene took it all in stride when he told the audience that he was not going to have a meltdown...
A small Nottingham budget film company, 3Ms (Majestic Monochrome Machinations) has acquired financial backing from Walt Disney Euro, to go ahead with its brand new super-hero film series.
Part owner of the company, Arthur Eydere explained the idea and plans for the series to our entertainment reporter C. Verilittal.
"We had noted that there are currently no really ugly, disabled, or elderly...
BBC chiefs moved quickly to cover up the embarrassment of the head of music at Radio 1 and 1Extra, George Ergatoudis, after he took part in a TV quiz last night.
Mr Ergatoudis was appearing on Christmas University Challenge, a variation on the reg...
1) Get mugged.
2) Have your home burgled.
3) Get made redundant, and sign on at the jobcentre.
4) Shop next year at the multitude of closing down stores to save cash and get a bargain.
5) Have pedestrian training on how to avoid the Big Issue sellers.
6) Visit the closed down medical wards, arrange nostalgia tours through your local Health Care Managers. (They will require 30% of in...
The Kardishians -- who make zillions of bucks off of their teeny tiny shoe and big booty fashion lines -- use "unscrupulous labor practices" and have been known to turn a blind eye to shocking working conditions ... this according to a national news...
WASHINGTON, DC - With approval ratings in the toilet, Congress is determined to shake off accusations of doing nothing to fix the economy.
Harry Reid (D-Nevada): We're putting an end to Republicans letting Fat-Cats escape justice. Barry Bonds and...
Well dear reader, another year has rolled over us like a Mac Truck driven by a hairy Swedish lesbian! The earth has spun on its axis taking us from horn-bags in bikinis to horn-bags in winter jumpsuits and then back again.
Sitting at the local the other day, I was spit balling with my mates what Christmas at the Lodge would be like. I can picture Julia Gillard sitting in the dining room starin...