In the time honoured traditions of Charles Dickens and Dickensian Britain the Royal Mail is launching a scheme designed to make sending this year's greeting cards more affordable to those on lower incomes, in other words, the entire population!
Eb...
George Osborne will today announce plans to limit the amount of children people who earn less than £40,000 a year can have. While he raises prescription charges for the same group and places a high rate of tax on contraception as well as supporting...
Like an unfinished Charles Dickens novel, the life of the Red Sox centerfielder has taken on caricature and hyperbole during the 2012 season.
With a few games left in the season, Ellsbury was yanked from the lineup for several games. No one was ta...
What noble words did Rondo say at the postgame press conference? We did not hear, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Sydney Carton was a version of Ra...
Whether Paul Pierce will turn out to be the hero of the game, this satiric profile will show.
Paul Pierce admits the game is not scripted.
After throwing up a clanker with seconds left in a chance to beat the San Antonio Spurs, Celtic Paul Pier...
Shock stories emerged from London, England, yesterday that the ghost of the world famous author had returned on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
One spine-tingling story concerned the mysterious disappearance of young David Copperfield's pet go...
A survey was carried out yesterday, in Nottingham's City Centre. by Woodstock Appraisals Ltd's assessor Tim Burr, on behalf of the Nottingham branch of the Charles Dickens Appreciation Society, funded by the City Council's Education Spokesman Oliver Dickens.
Nottingham's City Centre visitors were each asked:
Will you be celebrating Charles Dickens Birthday?
Here is a selection of the surve...
Fabio Capello has resigned as England manager, the Football Association has confirmed.
It is believed that Fabio wants to spend more time with his family.
A source told BBC today "Fabio is a pensioner - working two weeks in the summer will be...
As the bi-centennial celebrations of Charles Dickens get into full swing, it was revealed today that many of his books were more than just stories about depressing Victorian Britain and that the author was actually well ahead of his time.
And it t...
The BBC announced today that it great expectations for its drama, Great Expectations, which will be aired for three consecutive nights during the boring arse period between Christmas and the new year.
The new version stars Ray Winston, out of Scum...
Sir,
We have been reading with great interest the recent letters in your magazine from the people with the names. Of course, everyone has a name, excepting that cowboy that Clint Eastwood played, and those who wish to remain incognito - but even these people will often take an alias, such as Smith or Jones. But you get my point.
This is interesting to us because we have quite a riot with our...
Fans of classic English literature are about to be assaulted by an expletive-filled version of Wuthering Heights.
The latest radio play version of Emily Bronte's romance will portray Cathy and Heathcliffe as they have never been heard before.
A...
A manuscript, recently discovered in a house in Gosport, and believed to be the only extant copy of the hitherto unheard of Charles Dickens novel - The Winds Of The Cauliflowered Egg - was today declared to be 'an amateurishly perpetrated con.'
In...
Ebeneezer Scrooge has had a government career almost as short as David Laws, after he was sacked today by David Cameron only days after his appointment . The reason for Mr Scrooge's early departure from the cabinet are unclear - but we understand tha...
A mum in Staffordshire had her worst fears confirmed this morning when, cleaning under her son's bed, she found, to her horror, what can only be described as 'a mucky book'.
Karen Low-Cal, 46, from Stoke, made the grim discovery as she hoovered un...
The Government has taken on a new economic adviser to help guide them through the choppy waters of the current economic recession. Ebenezer Scrooge - who made his name as a fictional character in Charles Dickens's much loved story "A Christmas Carol"...
'Nell carefully swept the floor of her grandfather's curiosity shop in West London with a broom, West London with a broom being the unfashionable part of that city, and sighed to herself.
For she was only 14 but always curious about things and wanted to know why the British had put so much effort into defeating Napoleon Bonaparte, and why Tottenham Hotspur would never really achieve anything no...
Stave 2. In which we learn that Ebenezer Spoof has an even darker nature and in which he is beset by two spectres from his past life and receives news of further visitations.
Ebenezer Spoof, dear reader, we have met. And we have discovered his hyperbolic parsimony and melancholic outlook on the World, his kin and his fellow man. No cheer is to be found in such creatures and even the most gay of...