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Out of hours

  1. Plastic fantastic

    AN EVENING newspaper has come up with an ingenious way to beat a League One football club’s ban on photographers, Sky reports.

    Instead of real-life pictures of their team thumping Southampton, readers of the Swindon Advertiser were treated to Subbuteo recreations.

    2.Sep.10

  2. Phone goes home

    A MAN who bought a shiny new mobile phone online, choosing it because it looked just like his old one, realised afterwards it was actually the very one that had been…

    1.Sep.10

  3. Man blows himself up while killing spider

    A MAN suffered flash burns after he accidentally blew himself up trying to kill a spider, The Telegraph reports. The 28 year-old suffered severe burns after attacking the arachnid with an…

    31.Aug.10

  4. Google ‘dead body’ sparks panic

    A schoolgirl sparked panic after she was photographed lying face down and seemingly dead on Google Street View. People living in Middle Road, St John’s, Worcester, were so concerned they contacted…

    12.Aug.10

  5. Hundred club goes missing

    NEARLY 200 of Japan’s centenarians are missing, according to the country’s latest audit of those aged over 100. An examination of Japan’s centenarian population was prompted by last month’s discovery of a mummified body believed…

    11.Aug.10

  1. Air steward sees red
  2. Two-track wonder arrested
  3. A dog’s dinner
  4. Gambler loses bet over aliens
  5. Plot thickens in Japan’s oldest person mystery
  6. Christmas comes early
  1. The rise in Alpaca farms
    Recently-sheared alpacas get up close and personal. All photos by Stephen Noble.

    Even on a sunny day the wind is predictably bitter, a mood and sentiment matched by the recently sheered…

  2. The Kite Man Cometh
    Malcolm Goodman, AKA the Kite Man. All photos by Stephen Noble.

    The nostalgia is obvious, but the pleasure is somewhat more secretive. A guilty little niggle that something so simple…

  3. I don’t believe in ghosts
    A tour of the Castle Keep by Alone in the Dark Entertainment. All Photos by Stephen Noble

    I don’t believe in ghosts. The annoying contradiction is I am very, very easily frightened, and old ghost stories…

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Quote of the week

We should have taken a New Labour way out of the economic crisis: kept direct taxes competitive, had a gradual rise in VAT and other indirect taxes to close the deficit, and used the crisis to push further and faster on reform.

Former PM Tony Blair gives his tuppence on how Brown’s government should have handled the economic crisis.