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Town to become 'plastic bag-free' A village in Hampshire is going "green" by aiming to become completely plastic bag-free. Shopkeepers in Overton, near Basingstoke, have agreed to switch to biodegradable corn starch bags made from maize leaves. But they hope shoppers will switch to using reusable cotton bags or wicker baskets instead of disposable ones. The village's Co-op supermarket, which gives away about 20,000 plastic bags a month, has also agreed to take part. Overton Business Association launched the new Fair Trade canvas bags on Tuesday. The new bags, emblazoned with the slogan "We're free", are made of recycled cotton and printed with environm…

Hard drives currently have a one terabyte limit A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi. The company has successfully managed to shrink the read-write head of a hard drive to two thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. The smaller head can read greater densities of data stored on the disk. Hitachi said the advance would fuel the "terabyte era", with a 4TB drive able to hold more than a million songs. Hard drives store data by magnetising the surface of the disk in a pattern which represents the data in digital form. The data is …

Two planes have collided at Heathrow. I was just told about it, not even on the news yet. * IS NOW * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7046224.stm

Lock-in pupils at lunchtime to make them eat better, says top cook Prue Leith By LAURA CLARK - More by this author » Last updated at 19:47pm on 16th October 2007 Comments (1) Prue Leith: Leading the campaign to keep kids in school at lunchtime Schools should lock children in at lunchtime to boost take-up of canteen meals, a catering expert claimed yesterday. Prue Leith said if pupils were allowed off-site they were likely to buy chips and other unhealthy food. She urged heads to put aside worries that parents would accuse them of infringing children's rights. The renowned cook and restaurateur spoke as she backed a campaign to encourage a mill…

Tight-trousered Terry's wardrobe malfunction sparks BBC complaints By PAUL REVOIR - More by this author » Last updated at 00:50am on 16th October 2007 Comments (29) It's difficult to say who was squirming the most - Terry Wogan or the TV viewers. The BBC veteran presented Sunday's Points of View in a pair of moleskin trousers which clung relentlessly to a certain area and left little to the imagination. The corporation has received a flurry of complaints about 69-year-old Sir Terry's wardrobe malfunction. Scroll down for more... And the Linford Christie award for worst supporting trousers goes to Sir Terry And there was speculation that he m…

Man banned from dentist after missing appointment...13 years ago Last updated at 15:50pm on 16th October 2007 Comments Alex Crook has been left with toothache after being kicked out of his dentist because of a missed appointment 13 years ago. Businessman Alex, 25, was booked in for a much-needed check-up at the First Choice NHS dental clinic in Southsea, Hants, after more than a decade since his last one. But shocked Alex was struck off after dentist Chris Martin rapped him for his non-attendance as a schoolboy. Scroll down for more... Alex Crook says he has been banned from his dentist for missing an appointment when he was 12 Alex, from Portsm…

Toddlers allowed to run wild risk being violent adults, parents told By DAVID DERBYSHIRE - More by this author » Last updated at 00:03am on 16th October 2007 Comments Allowing children to be aggressive in their pre-school years could lead to them becoming aggressive adults Curbing aggression in children in their pre-school years is the key to ensuring they do not grow into violent adults, parents are being warned. Toddlers do not learn aggression from other children, TV, video games or adults, says a leading child psychiatrist. Instead, most are naturally physically belligerent, claims Professor Richard Tremblay, from the University of Montrea…

The moment JK Rowling revealed a little more than intended By GWYNETH REES - More by this author » Last updated at 00:04am on 16th October 2007 Comments She is wizard at keeping secrets. Keeping her underwear to herself is obviously another matter. The usually discreet JK Rowling found herself revealing a little more than she would have liked as she addressed a group of children in the US. The writer who managed to keep Harry Potter's fate under wraps for seven books, bared her bra as she leaned forward. Scroll down for more... Now you see it...now you don't: JK Rowling shows off her bra Seemingly unflustered, she simply adjusted her neck…

Wi-fi health study gets go ahead The health effects of wi-fi networks are to be investigated by the UK government.

Joining the Mile High Club easier after world's biggest aeroplane introduces double beds Last updated at 13:59pm on 15th October 2007 Comments (1) Luxury cabins will return to the skies this month with the launch of a new 'super-first' class on the Airbus A380 double decker. Singapore Airlines, which took delivery of the first of 19 A380s in Toulouse today, revealed that the planes will have 12 private suites for its top paying passengers - meaning its never been so easy to join the Mile High Club. Services start on the Singapore-Sydney route on 25 October, with a London to Singapore service to be introduced early next year. Scroll down for more... …

No make-up leaves Cher looking just like... Ozzy Osbourne Last updated at 15:08pm on 15th October 2007 Comments (7) If only Cher really could turn back time. The ageing singer confessed to spending a "small fortune" on plastic surgery to look fresh faced, but instead she stepped out yesterday looking just like haggard rocker Ozzy Osbourne. With her round tinted glasses, straggly centre-parted hair and a make-up free face, she appeared every inch the Black Sabbath frontman's doppelganger. Scroll down for more Separated at birth? Cher, 61, stepped out yesterday looking just like 58-year-old rocker Ozzy Osbourne The 61-year-old has admitt…

I will not manage again - Keegan Former England boss Kevin Keegan tells BBC One's Inside Sport he is unlikely to return to management.

Riot police storm pub after a smoker lights up in protest to the ban Last updated at 00:48am on 15th October 2007 Comments The ban on smoking in public places came into force in July this year It wasn't exactly the dramatic finale one cricket fan was expecting. Having installed himself in his local pub to watch England play India, John Vaughan was enraged when the channel was switched over to football just as the cricket was reaching its thrilling conclusion. So Mr Vaughan lit up a cigarette in protest. When he refused to extinguish it, staff pressed a panic button behind the bar. And a few minutes later six riot police offi…

Binge-drinking epidemic increases as alcohol related A&E admissions soar By MATTHEW HICKLEY - More by this author » Last updated at 07:00am on 15th October 2007 Comments Binge-drinkers are flooding A&E departments in hospitals across the UK after consuming alcohol until they are seriously ill Emergency hospital admissions caused by binge-drinking and booze-fuelled violence have soared dramatically in the past five years, shocking figures have revealed. Two years after the Government's bitterly controversial licensing reforms ushered in late-night drinking in pubs and clubs, data from hundreds of hospitals across the country show A&E de…

Middlesborough tops poll of the worst places to live in Britain Last updated at 01:01am on 15th October 2007 Comments Northern blight: one view of Middlesborough It is the kind of tabletopping performance the good citizens of Middlesbrough could do without. While other towns and cities win accolades for their culture, sport and lively social scenes, the only recognition heading for the oncemighty industrial port is that of worst place to live in the country. The town has achieved its unwanted eminence through high crime, severe drug and health problems, and poor education results. According to researchers for the Channel 4 show Locat…

Motorway fowl-up: Why 3000 chickens crossed the road Last updated at 08:34am on 12th October 2007 Comments (8) Why did 3000 chickens cross the road? Because the lorry they were in crashed on one of Scotland's busiest motorways, that's why. Thousands of runaway chickens brought traffic to a standstill after a transporter lorry crashed on a busy road near Glasgow. Scroll down for more... Bemused traffic police looked on as thousands of chickens enjoyed their few moments of freedom The A80 heading towards Glasgow was shut for more than eight hours as the birds were rounded up by a specialist team drafted in by police. The lorry carrying 3,00…

Woman builds 5ft tower from unwanted junk mail Last updated at 23:08pm on 13th October 2007 Comments (7) An artist from Newcastle has created an unusual exhibit in her garden out of her unwanted junk mail. Anne Cohen, 54, from Fenham, has been placing all the junk mail delivered to her by hand - but not by postal service - on a metal spike outside her front door. Started on January 1, the artwork is now more than 5ft tall. More follows... Mother-of-four Mrs Cohen said she came up with the idea to get people talking about the volume of junk mail delivered in her neighbourhood. "We just get so much junk mail. We're totally inundated," she sai…

Electronic Arts in $855m purchase US games giant EA is to buy two video game studios in a deal that adds role-playing titles to its portfolio.

This film looks very good, an interesting spin on the Holocaust drama . "The Counterfeiters is the true story of the largest counterfeiting operation in history, set up by the Nazis in 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a mischievous life of cards, booze, and women in Berlin during the Nazi-era. Suddenly his luck runs dry when arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog (Devid Striesow). Immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills there and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once again comes face to face with Herzog, who…

Do you fink I'm stupid? Chantelle shows what it takes to make a million as a reality TV star By JENNY JOHNSTON - More by this author » Last updated at 20:57pm on 12th October 2007 Comments (15) She's on the cover of magazines right now ... but what will happen to Chantelle in ten years? 'I'll probably be wrinkly', she says Chantelle Houghton tells me she is "actually quite clever" four times before I pluck up the courage to ask how she knows this. There hasn't been an awful lot of evidence during our interview, it has to be said, and she is famous for having asked "what's a gynaecologist?" during her time in the Big Brother house. At first, she proffer…

Advertising in the days when the way to a woman's heart was ... a new sink Last updated at 10:05am on 13th October 2007 Comments Those were the days: smoking was considered healthy and you were told to fry your child under a sunlamp for her own good. Advertisers could tell us anything, it seems, and we believed it. Now a new book has collected some of these ads which celebrate this glorious time of innocence... Scroll down for more images ... The way to a woman's heart is through ... a new sink. From 1960 For medicinal purpose only, of course, in 1900 Sweet-smelling cigarettes that can be smoked all day She doesn't lo…

Posh and Becks: We lock the doors at night and wander around naked by RICHARD SIMPSON - More by this author » Last updated at 13:19pm on 12th July 2007 Comments (23) David and Victoria Beckham have revealed that they "like to lock the doors at night and wander around naked" in an intimate interview with America's risque W magazine. The couple also posed for an extraordinary set of sexually charged photographs, giving US audiences their first taste of what to expect ahead of their fanfare move to Los Angeles. "I think people are really going to see me for the first time. I think they have this impression that I'm the miserable cow who doesn't smile," Vic…

JK Rowling loses £25,000 compensation battle against Indians who built 'Hindu Harry Potter school' Last updated at 16:20pm on 12th October 2007 Comments JK Rowling has failed to win £25,000 compensation from Hindus who built a replica of Harry Potter's school to celebrate a religious festival. Rowling and Warner Brothers wanted £25,000 for breach of copyright - but the community group claimed the bid had failed and the bizarre Hindu festival in east India will go ahead. The four-day Durga Puja festival, which begins on October 17, also plans to include life-sized models of Harry Potter, his companions and even a mock steam engine to resemble the Hogwarts …

Babies swapped at birth in hospital mix-up lived with wrong parents for TEN months Last updated at 14:47pm on 9th October 2007 Comments (9) Two mothers handed the wrong babies in a catastrophic post-natal mix-up ten months ago have agreed to swap the children each thought was their own. Little Nikola Broza and Veronika Cermakova have been nurtured, nursed, loved and cared for by parents who were not their biological mother and father. The mistake may never have come to light in Czech Republic had Nikola's parents Libor Broza, 29, and his partner Jaroslava Trojanova, 25, not undergone DNA testing. Scroll down for more ... Mix-up: The daughters do in f…

Artist implants 'third ear' on his own arm Last updated at 14:22pm on 11th October 2007 Comments (4) Performance artists are known for pushing the bounderies, but one Australian has astonished his contemporaries by having a third ear implanted onto his arm. The Cypriot-born eccentric Stelios Arcadious spent 10 years searching for a surgeon willing to perform the controversial operation. scroll down for more Artist Stelios Arcadiou has had the ear created in a lab from cells and implanted into his skin He got his wish after working as a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University's Digital Research Unit. The ear was grown in a lab from cells a…