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Police hunt 'puma-sized' cat Police said the cat was similar in size to a puma Police are searching a country park after receiving several reports of a "puma-sized'' cat. Officers said a number of members of the public had reported seeing the black cat in and around a country...

Dozens of Japanese tourists visiting France each year need psychological treatment after they discover how unfriendly and rude the French can be and how scruffy the streets are: From South African news website - Paris Paris - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological...

In July 2005 Jacques Chirac sat down to dinner with his two stooges - Schroeder and Putin - when he started to say not very nice things about Britain. He famously said : "Only Finnish food is worse than British food in the world." But the said these words in front of many TV crews and...

It looks like EU chief Jose Manuel Barroso needs help with his sums EU spending doesn't add up By VINCE SOODIN October 24, 2006 BUNGLING Brussels bureaucrats have failed to make EU books add up for the 12th year in a row. Independent accountants refused to give the...

24 October 2006 US NAVY DECLARE WAR ON CLYDE FERRY Exclusive By Cara Page The Daily Record Scotland's Newspaper An innocent Clyde ferry, similar to one that a US Navy warship nearly decided to blow out of the water whilst full of passengers. The ferries carry passengers between the...

Pilots eject as RAF Tornado crashes into sea 24th October 2006 The Tornado is considered to be the RAF's primary attack aircraft An RAF Tornado on a routine weapon training session crashed into the sea off the UK today but both air crew ejected to safety. The Tornado GR4 from...

Here's a creepy story from the book "Ghosts", written by Lily Seafield, J Aeneas Corcoran, and Patricia Godwin. This is from my own typing as copied from the book so there is no website link to it. It's a true story that occured in the 1700s. It's best read on your own with the lights off...

Despite being 85 years old and has just been on a tour of the Baltic countries Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, still found enough energy to visit the Queen's Royal Hussars in Iraq..... Prince Philip in visit to Iraq Royal support ... Prince Philip with the Queen's Royal Hussars and...

1st SAS girl: My blood and tears Superfit ... Rachel in her combat gear - and civvies. The SAS undergo the toughest training of any army in the world. To join the SAS, you have to be THE very best. At the end of the third week of training, she was one of only just 20 remaining Pictures...

Iraq Dep PM: Don't leave us Talks ... British PM Tony Blair and Iraqi Deputy PM Barham Salih in Downing Street By VINCE SOODIN October 23, 2006 IRAQ’S deputy prime minister today urged the international community not to “cut and run” from his country. Barham Salih was...

English player Jermaine Defoe bit Argentinian player Javier Mascherano on the arm during Saturday's Premiership game between London teams Tottenham and West Ham that Tottenham won 1-0 at their White Hart Lane. Tottenham's Defore had a face contorted with anger after Mascherano fouled him -...

Foreigners make fun of the British in the way that we allow foreigners to easily take over our companies. But, as The Economist explains, the British are doing an intelligent thing in doing this and is allowing London to dominate the world....... How to protect an industry Oct 19th 2006...

English and Irish women are - by a great distance - the biggest binge alcohol drinkers not just in Europe but in the world. There are ELEVEN times as many women aged 17-30 who binge drink - meaning not drinking just for leisure but drinking far too much in order to get very drunk - than there...

TV historians unearth village's Roman past Oct 19 2006 By Mark Davison mark.davison@trinitysouth.co.uk HISTORY books will have to be rewritten after it has emerged that a Roman settlement has been unearthed at Godstone, Surrey. The discovery has been filmed for Channel 4's Time Team...

Just over 100 years ago, a German called Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz said that England is a nation without music. He couldn't have been more wrong, says Tory MP Boris Johnson........ A land without music? Parry, Holst and Elgar to you, Schmitz By "Bonking" Boris Johnson, Tory MP of...

Ahmadinejad's speeches have caused outrage Britain An 'Enemy Of Iran' Friday October 20, 2006 Iran's president has branded Britain and America "enemies of the Iranian nation" during a scathing speech in Tehran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said Europe and other supporters of Israel "may...

What will people hundreds of years from now make of the British of the early 21st Century? Last week, 40,000 people in Britain made history by logging a day in their life on the web. Some of them are funny and others were painfully honest. The Sunday Times October 22, 2006 Our...

The Sunday TimesOctober 22, 2006 Very unBritish way of becoming a Brit Candice Gifford has just become a UK citizen. It wasn’t easy, she says, but the system is open to abuse and lets applicants eschew customs such as shaking hands Good old Blighty: A former South African - who has now...

Britain is going back to Georgian times again as it uses prison ships. England & Wales' prisons have become full so the Government has a bit of a crisis on its hand trying to figure out where to put all our new prisoners (why didn't they just build new gaols?) Now the it's thinking about using...

Matt Lucas, who stars as Davydd - the "Only Gay In The Village" - in BBC comedy series Little Britain is now starring as Toad in the BBC's new production of Wind in the Willows to be screened on Boxing Day (26th December). The Wind in the Willows - popular with British children - is a classic...