(Pressure Pad, BBC1) Barrowman: The two categories to choose from are 19th-century novels or Crufts. Contestant: I’ll be honest with you – I don’t even know what Crufts are, I’ll have to go...
One day, a French spy received a coded message from a British MI6 agent – it read S370HSSV-0773H. Unable to decipher the message, he sent it to his superior who was equally stumped as to its...
Q: The Spice Girls, the Pussycat Dolls, Peter Andre and One Direction are all on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, when it starts to sink – who gets saved?
A: The world of music....
Sir Alex Ferguson is a guest of honour at the Miss World Contest. During the interval, the judges and contestants are mingling over drinks when Sir Alex is approached by the voluptuous Miss Venezuela....
Thieves broke into the trophy room at the Emirates Stadium last night and took everything.
Police in the Highbury area are on the lookout for two men carrying a roll of red carpet....
Displeased with the head-gardener, the lady of the manor called him into the study to point out the error in his work. Looking out at the expanse of the estate and the grand ornate gardens fronting...
£10,000,000,000 - Amount the NHS will spend on Private Finance Initiative contracts over the next five years. 0 – Number of times Private Finance Initiatives are mentioned in the NHS five-year...
[Read this ASAP, as all my previous posts critical of South Yorkshire Police have been promptly removed] Although it might have been a genuine mistake – if so, I would have expected the Beeb to have...
Further to my recent post concerning Mr. DiCaprio being appointed as a United Nations representative on climate change (http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1366982.html), I can report on his...
I see from the news that Mr. DiCaprio has been appointed as a United Nations representative on climate change. The hiatus on global warming aside; can we now assume that as representative in this...
Within the last year I have had a new bathroom-suite installed. Already the toilet cistern is overflowing (cheap modern ***). Rather than expelling the excess water out through the overflow pipe –...
130,000 New house builds started in the UK last year, greeted by the government as evidence that ‘the long-term economic plan to improve the housing market is working’ 300,000 New house builds...
Judge: Do you have anything to say before I pass sentence?
Yob: Yes, give me another chance your honour.
Judge: …and what would you do with that chance?
Yob: I’d kill the ***....
A Glaswegian took his wife to the local A&E, she had two black-eyes and a broken arm. The doctor asked ‘What had happened to her?’ The husband replied that ‘She was going through the change.’...
8% - Annual interest Wonga will repay customers wrongly charged as a result of fake legal letters it sent them, along with £50 compensation for ‘distress and inconvenience’ 5,853% - Annual...
This morning on the Andrew Marr show, Normal Tebitt said that ‘the culture at the time was to protect the establishment’ – referring to a possible cover-up of child sex abuse during the 1980s....