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Europe’s Ailing Social Model: Facts & Fairy-Tales From the desk of Martin De Vlieghere on Thu, 2006-03-23 08:43 This article was written by Martin De Vlieghere, Eric Verhulst and Paul Vreymans of the Flemish think tank Work For All On 23 and 24 March the European Council is meeting to discuss...

Aussies told to mind their language By STEPHEN HULL, Metro 23rd March 2006 Australian cricket fans - not very polite, especially towards the English. It's as much a tradition of the game as whites, the thwack of leather on willow and curled-up cucumber sandwiches for tea. But now...

Britain The Times March 23, 2006 Norfolk - a rural county in eastern England. Eric Edwards, 63, one of the last of the Norfolk reed cutters whose traditional country dialect is being revived (Andrew Parsons/PA) 'He'yer fa'got a dickey, bor?' isn't rude... in Norfolk By...

Taking a cat-nap...560ft up! 23rd March 2006 High living: For one man the girder is a lunch table, for the other it is somewhere to doze off. When you're working more than 500ft up and it is time for a break, your options are rather limited. There's no popping out to the shops or the...

Times Online March 23, 2006 Norman Kember's harrowed appearance on this January video was a low point for his family and supporters (Al Jazeera/AP) Special forces free Iraq hostages, including Briton By Philippe Naughton British and US special forces freed three Western peace...

An intriguing local mystery regarding a sinister murder that happened in the forties around Hagley. The case is unsolved to this day with various theories about the perptrators. Story Location: Hagley, Nr Kidderminster, Worcestershire Date Of Event: Discovered 18 April 1943 - Present An...

Flock of crows terrorises street Warwick Castle - one of the main "touristy" areas of this ancient and beautiful city. The RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) said the crows could be attacking because they are mating A flock of crows is terrorising people living on an...

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has caused another row after he told two businessmen involved in building a key facility for the 2012 Olympics to "go back (to their own country) and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs". But the businessmen aren't from Iran - they were born in...

French Take to the Streets to Preserve Their Economic Fantasy By Steven Pearlstein Wednesday, March 22, 2006; D01 Ah, springtime in Paris. The sight of riot police outside the Sorbonne. The smell of tear gas wafting along the Seine. The sweet sounds of hypocrisy floating from the National...

Boozy Britain 'on road to Hogarth's Gin Lane' (Filed: 22/03/2006) William Hogarth's "Gin Lane", painted in 1751, showed what life was like in London's 18th Century streets with its drunks. The around-the-clock availability of cheap alcohol could cause a health crisis reminiscent of the...

Seeing is believing Sightings of mystery 'big cats' in Britain's countryside have snowballed since the 1980s, dividing opinion about their existence Merrily Harpur Wednesday March 22, 2006 The Guardian Angus, a Warwickshire gamekeeper, went to feed his pheasants in a spinney one afternoon...

Marc Knobel, a researcher for the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France, says: "This is not just a Jewish question, it's the result of a society that has become totally dislocated and disconnected from republican values. We are in a crisis where people can't live together. "...

UK Islamists 'were ready to start bombing' Staff and agencies Tuesday March 21, 2006 Seven British Islamist terrorists had all the materials in place to start a major bombing campaign in the UK when their plot was intercepted, the Old Bailey heard today. At the start of a trial expected...

Times Online March 21, 2006 The Prince and Duchess in the courtyard of Al Azhar Mosque in Cairo (Khaled El Fiqi/Reuters) Charles criticises cartoons on Middle East tour with Camilla By Philippe Naughton The Prince of Wales took a swipe today at the publication of the Danish...

The Times March 21, 2006 Brown's vision: prepare to head East and sell Britain By Philip Webster, Political Editor EXPERTS from the private sector are to be brought in to help Britain to sell its strengths in China, India and other emerging nations, in an attempt to make it the best...

The Sunday Times March 19, 2006 Christina Lamb British troops arrive in Afghanistan. THE objectives of the British mission to Afghanistan could take as long as 20 years to achieve, according to a confidential Ministry of Defence briefing seen by The Sunday Times. The assessment by senior...

Council to sell 'haunted' castle for £5,000 Publisher: Jon Land Published: 08/03/2006 Haunted: Llantwit Major Castle, Wales, UK. Wales (and, therefore, Britain) has more castles than any other country in Europe. It is known as "The Land of Castles." A "haunted" Elizabethan castle...

Baby monkeys stolen in zoo raid 09:49am 20th March 2006 Stolen: These tiny primates were amongst an entire colony of the threatened black-eared marmosets stolen along with a number of exotic birds from Exmoor Zoo. (In Canada, they probably would have been bludgeoned to death by now.) A pair...

The Times March 20, 2006 Political world mourns a killer named Humphrey By David Sanderson HE WAS a serial killer who attracted fan mail and whose feline nature so offended Cherie Blair that she threw him out; but last week he ran out of lives: Humphrey the Downing Street cat died...

I suppose this could go in the history section. Ireland legalises sheep-poo coffee From: By David Sharrock in Dublin March 14, 2006 WITH the stroke of a legislative pen, the Irish Republic intends to shrug off centuries of colonial rule when it abolishes thousands of bizarre laws dating...