When a large restaurant chain starts losing money, and eventually goes into administration, there would usually have been some signs along the way for the owners that would have helped them take action to protect the business and its hardworking staf...
Charles Dickens depiction of life in Victorian orphanages, Oliver Twist, has now been turned into a 2017 reality horror show by a bunch of Scrooges who run a daily meal service in a Catholic school in North London! It seems as though little Oliver...
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...
In a dramatic new twist in the quest for the truth regarding the paternity of the late Michael Jackson's children, three cast members of the 1968 musical movie extravaganza 'Oliver!' have allegedly laid claim to fathering one of them. Mark Lester,...
Famous pickpocket and all-round tea leaf Fagin today replaced Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and his first Cabinet appointment was to select The Artful Dodger as his Chancellor of the Exchequer. 'Listen, Dodger, me old china', he said, 'you've go...
The British Prime Minister said today that as part of his new plan for the economy, he intended to revive the 'Workhouse Model'. This meant that individuals and families would have somewhere to go when they became destitute or had their houses repos...
Rowan Atkinson has returned in spectacular fashion to the West End - his first time on the boards for 12 years. He has taken the lead in "Oliver", a role he has always cherished, and the 48-year-old doesn't disappoint. When Atkinson first announced that he would be starring in the play, some expressed surprise, but this truly is a role made for him. "To the British movie-goer Oliver Reed was a...
Mr Bumble better known as Work and Pensions Secretary Purcell has reached his limit with the shiftless toddlers and their lazy lout mums in the UK:" On John Bull's island, we all pull our share!", Bumble said. Purcell's proposals to put to hard...
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