New homes and hospitals will be granted "automatic" permission to be built as part of sweeping planning reforms in England, Robert Jenrick, the housing secretary, says. "We realise that this is going to be open season for the erection of monstrous…
It's been confirmed that significantly more than half of all buildings constructed in Denmark since 2001 have been built from Lego. The figure is actually 97%. Lego is the Danish company that produces the children's interlocking plastic buildin...
Washington, D.C. - Donald Trump has just finished building the Mexico-U.S. wall, which is officially the tallest wall on Earth and, perhaps, the universe. This will go down in history as one of the most impressive engineering feats of mankind. Th...
With insufficient housing in the United Kingdom, homoeopaths have come forward to provide a solution. "Previously we used homoeopathy for medicine," said Paul Seeboh. "But we realised that it applies to a much wider range of disciplines." In me...
DENVER - Senator Jimbo Quickdance [D-Denver] has just informed the residents of his hometown that he is excited about an announcement regarding marijuana taxes. Senator Quickdance, who calls himself a bouncing Colorado Baby Boomer, stated that jus...
PHOENIX - Governor Jan Brewer has just made a much anticipated announcement from her governor's mansion in Phoenix. She told the assembled news media that plans have been finalized on a new 30,000 mental patient facility to be built just outside t...
Space is to receive a 400 million acre extension, with stunning sea views and an en-suite bathroom facility. Several planets and a plethora of stars will also be included. Local government officials initially rejected the plans, stating that the e...
Building Inspectors in the small town of Walnut Grove, Minnesota, have called a house, built by the owner "a death trap" and that the residence needs to be demolished or brought up to code by the end of week. The house has no smoke alarms, an ope...
Recently, Mr. Butterfinger® from Chocolate Ville wondered what the Whichamacallit® was lying by the Dots® on 5th Avenue®. Help arrived when the 3 Musketeers® jumped in to investigate, but crying interrupted them as Baby Ruth®...
This is almost a real letter received at the DIY SOS team HQ. Dear DIY SOS, I hope you can help me. My name is Jane Hunt and I have a useless husband called Mike. I have a really simple job that desperately needs doing and I'm afraid that my man is not quite up to the task. Therefore I need your help. Almost a year ago I purchased a nice bedroom dresser from MFI during their closing down...
London's Hackney Marshes is basically a swampland. It always has been. For many decades nothing was built on it other than the odd wooden changing room sheds for amateur league football players to get into their kit before playing their matches on the wide expanse of the marshes at weekends. I grew up in Hackney myself. The goalposts during matches played on rain soaked days would sin...
Berlin, Germany: The fourth wall of a Berlin theatre has collapsed during a Brecht play, with many audience members feared injured. At approximately 20:00 local time the fourth wall of the Palais Theatre collapsed dramatically during a performance...
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - Citing a lifelong concern with security as a possible explanation, local man Tom Gallant has explained that he is unable to prevent himself from judging the quality of nearby buildings and items even when social norms would pre...
The credit crunch has put paid to developments all around the World and London is no exception - the Leadenhall 'Cheesegrater' and the KFC Hackney Observation Tower being the most famous examples of the halt in progression. It has now come to lig...
A sign has appeared on the top floor of the Worlds highest building in Dubai the Burj Dubai saying NO DIVING. The Burj Dubai is double the size of the Empire state building and stands at 828 metres. It was opened January of this year despite Dubai...
Japan: Rescue workers are franticly attempting to rescue hundreds of American and French tourists who were caught in a horrifying building collapse. The tower, built in Kooriyama (Fukushimma, Japan) was constructed entirely from 950,000 Sumo wrest...
The Worlds smallest man He Pinping at only 2ft 5 inches was due to open the worlds tallest building today but he was so small he got lost in the crowd and nobody could find him before opening time. The Burj Dubai at 828 metres is the tallest build...
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