Can Yorkshire pud become a protected species like rhubarb?

A recipe from the 18th century is being spread around the country known for taking the simple Yorkshire pudding from its previous status as a workday food item to the same high par of delicacies like Parma ham and champagne.

Moves to give the pudding the Protected Designation of Origin Status had previously been disregarded as [...]

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Smell Free Astronaut Underwear

A Japanese astronaut is busy in administration of a line of odour free inners and casual clothing on the international space station. Koichi Wakata first person from the Far East nation to live in the orbiting conditions is trying out J-ware by textile experts at Japan Women’s University in Tokyo.

Koji Yanagawa, a Japanese Aerospace Exploration [...]

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Male jurors stick to their decision not matter the evidence

In a new groundbreaking study commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and carried out by University College London professor Cheryl Thomas, it was found that most jurors researched the trial they were involved in online outside of the court, which is contempt.

The study included careful look at 69,000 jury verdicts that were reached over the [...]

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Huge increase in breast reduction surgery, er, for men

Last year a record was set for the number of men that reduced their man boobs via plastic surgery. Figures released today showed there was an 80% increase in men who sought out breast reduction operations in the UK.

In an audit carried out by the BAAPS (British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons) it was shown [...]

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Looks like dope will remain illegal under new drug tsar

Professor Les Iversen is now the government’s Interim Chairman for the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs which means that he will now join the ongoing argument raging between scientific advice and political opinions with regard to marijuana.

Iversen is a retired professor of pharmacology from Oxford University who specialized in neuropharmacology, (drugs effects on [...]

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A kilo of bananas and a kilo of cocaine please

Drug smugglers made a bit of a slip-up with their latest attempt to get drugs into Europe after it was discovered that cocaine was packaged and delivered to supermarkets throughout Spain hidden underneath bananas.

Police found out about the drugs when a shelf-stacker at a Madrid Lidl supermarket discovered that there was a brick of cocaine [...]

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Zombie banking and other new terms enter the language

As the first decade of the 21st century closes word enthusiasts are pleased to welcome a few new linguistic terms into the Oxford English Dictionary including jeggings, snollygosters, and tweetups.

Over the year the dictionary has recognized hundreds of new words along with a few familiar words that are used in a different form such as [...]

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12 year old dealer suspended from school

In these times of rampant lawlessness it is essential to keep our children safe at all times, this is not only out on the streets but also in our fine educational establishments. That is why we can only applaud the action of headmaster Dave Forshaw from Cardinal Heenan High School in Liverpool.

He suspended 12-year-old Joel [...]

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