asks Dogbreath:A. Oh yes, you haven't heard the last of this one. According to Variety, the trade paper of the film industry, there are currently four separate film ventures to record the
00:00 Thu 21st Mar 2002asks PDTV:A. It looks likely that as many as 90% of the multivitamin and multi-mineral formulas we buy at health food shops will disappear if a European directive becomes law on Wednesday (March 13).
00:00 Mon 11th Mar 2002asks HGray: A. India's Supreme Court gave Arundhati Roy a one-day jail sentence for criticising its procedures as a 'symbolic gesture'. The sentence is not such a big deal, but as a Booker
00:00 Thu 07th Mar 2002asks admason:A. British ambulances have been white with yellow and green markings for 50 years, but now they're turning yellow to bring them in line with the rest of Europe. The first ambulance has
00:00 Wed 06th Mar 2002asks PDTV:A. The official projections which were released in the Social Trends report in January 2002 suggest that the UK population will rise from the current 60 million and peak at 66 million in
00:00 Tue 26th Feb 2002asks admason:A. No, despite the interim Afghan government, led by Hamid Karzai, announcing in January this year that it was banning the cultivation of the opium poppy. The trouble is that announcing
00:00 Tue 26th Feb 2002asks Jarnold:A. The Green Paper is the biggest shake-up in secondary education for more than ten years. It proposes a new leaving age of 19. Q. Why A. It is designed to encourage all young people to
00:00 Fri 15th Feb 2002asks ursula: A. For the five years that the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, women were not allowed to work or study. Before then, 60% of the 10,000 students at Kabal University were female. Since 1996,
00:00 Thu 07th Feb 2002asks modge:A. It has been reported that the parents of the British Siamese - or conjoined - twins have accepted that an operation to separate the twins will cause the death of one of them. However,
00:00 Tue 05th Feb 2002asks MissDon:A. Satanists are in the news again because of 23-year-old Manuela Ruda who, along with her husband Daniel, was found guilty of murder in Germany. They had killed a man by hitting him with
00:00 Fri 01st Feb 2002asks Jayne b-t:A. It highly unlikely. The 'winter vomiting' bug, which was first noted at Glasgow's Victoria Infirmary on January 9, has infected 254 patients and staff. And now 17 patients and eight
00:00 Fri 22nd Feb 2002 asks Ursula:A. It's debatable. The Palace itself is organising events over a long weekend, from Saturday June 1 to Tuesday June 4. There will be a ceremonial royal procession to St Paul's Cathedral
00:00 Fri 22nd Feb 2002asks admason:A. No. On 14 January, the British Museum ruled out any possibility of the Elgin Marbles being returned to Greece. These beautiful stone friezes, which once decorated the sides of the
00:00 Wed 16th Jan 2002asks woolley: A. Until now, most doctors didn't think that ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or yuppie flu) actually existed. Even when it was recognised that there
00:00 Tue 15th Jan 2002asks Allan: A. It's been going on for a while. It started in 1947 with the Partition which split the sub-continent into India and Pakistan, ending 163 years of British rule. Kashmir went with India.
00:00 Mon 08th Jan 2001asks Sporty:A. Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah lost their baby daughter, who suffered a brain haemorrhage after being born seven weeks premature. Q. What is the definition of premature A. A baby is
00:00 Sun 07th Jan 2001asks Tonyb:A. The US has spent millions of dollars trying to develop early warning detectors for biological attacks. It has set some up the Pentagon, but even these don't work particularly well. Which
00:00 Mon 17th Dec 2001asks pathfinder A. They're not returning it, but they will now pay the Cayuga Indians (see the 1934 picture of a tribal chief on our home page - and a more recent one, of Chief Jacob Thomas, left) for
00:00 Tue 04th Dec 2001asks Su Smith: A. It's estimated that half a million people in the UK take ecstasy, a class-A drug, each weekend. However, ecstasy is controversial because of high-profile deaths of young people, such
00:00 Wed 28th Nov 2001asks H Gray:A. The Government has finally approved a fifth terminal at Heathrow after the longest planning inquiry in British history (1995-1999). Terminal Five will be open by 2007 at a cost of 2.5
00:00 Wed 28th Nov 2001