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Boy, 10, loses nearly three stone at diet club after bullies tease him over weight By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:45 PM on 03rd February 2010 Comments (11) Add to My Stories A boy of ten who was bullied at school because of his weight has silenced his tormentors by becoming one of Britain’s youngest super-slimmers – and losing nearly three stone. Oscar Williams joined a dieting club after being teased by other pupils at his primary school for piling on the pounds. And just 18 weeks after signing up with the Slim Easy club in Bury, Greater Manchester, he reached his goal weight of 8stone by shedding a massive 2stone 8lb. Oscar, …

Now Tesco bans shoppers from its supermarkets... for not wearing shoes By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:13 PM on 03rd February 2010 Comments (289) Add to My Stories Barefooted shopper: Dave Richards Tesco bosses have banned a barefooted man from one of their stores – just days after barring shoppers from wearing pyjamas. Dave Richards, who stopped wearing shoes eight years ago after a physiotherapist said it would help cure a limp, was ordered out after managers spotted him in the frozen meats section. The 47-year-old has been shoeless to rock concerts, funerals and even top restaurants with no problems. But now retail giants…

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Tesco shopper, 24, forced to show ID... because she was 'too young to buy slice of QUICHE' By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:51 PM on 02nd February 2010 Comments (398) Add to My Stories In what must rank as one of the most bizarre ID requests ever, an office worker claims she had to prove she was over 21 to buy a slice of quiche. Christine Cuddihy, 24, was handed the cheese and onion tart - costing 51p - at the deli counter of the Tesco in Coventry and then took it to the till. She says the cashier then refused to sell it to her because she 'looked under 21'. Proof of age schemes exist in supermarkets to stop youngsters buying alc…

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aNSc0oQ0vb4M&pos=10 http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100202/D9DK7V400.html But it was only 824,000 lost-jobs off. Close enough. Quite a "recovery" we're having, eh? I'm glad that multi-trillion dollar stimulus bill passed.

Mobile phones spark rise in school cheats: Exams body reveals 4,500 pupils were caught during tests By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:40 PM on 03rd February 2010 Comments (6) Add to My Stories Cheating in GCSE and A-level exams increased last year, with teenagers caught almost 4,500 times, official figures showed today. The most common offence was smuggling banned items, such as mobile phones, calculators, dictionaries or study guides, into the exam hall, according to a report by exam regulator Ofqual. In nearly half of cases (49 per cent) students lost marks, and in one in six cases (15 per cent), pupils lost the chance to gain a qua…

Groundhog Day star should be given his freedom, says animal rights group A member of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club hoists Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day 2005. Organisers of an annual Groundhog Day festival in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, are being urged to replace a live animal, Punxsutawney Phil, with a robotic stand-in. According to tradition, if Phil sees his shadow on February 2 there will be six more weeks of winter. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it is unfair to keep Phil in captivity and subject him to crowds each year. William Deeley, president of the groundhog club, said that the animal w…

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/49320.html Sorry for the particular language used in this posting, lewrockwell.com is an anti-government website, so it can be striking to those who aren't used to reading rants by extreme libertarians. But they are also reliably accurate, and if they ever make a mistake it is corrected prominently. So I generally trust the blog.

England captain John Terry had an affair with team-mate Wayne Bridge's partner ... and then launched legal cover-up By Sam Greenhill, Christian Gysin and Steve Doughty Last updated at 10:27 PM on 29th January 2010 Comments (114) Add to My Stories England captain John Terry was publicly disgraced last night for cheating on his wife with a team-mate's girlfriend after losing a court battle to keep it secret. The £170,000-a-week footballer had an affair with French underwear model Vanessa Perroncel - his wife's best friend and the partner of fellow England defender Wayne Bridge. Terry, 29, who has three-year-old twins with his childhood sweet…

Government's anti-cigarette drive to stop you smoking at the wheel and at home By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 9:57 AM on 01st February 2010 Comments (265) Add to My Stories Cigarettes to be sold in plain, grey, logo-free packets Sale of tobacco from vending machines to be banned Smoking to be banned at entrances to buildings Plans to cut the number of smokers by pressurising them not to light up at home and in cars have been unveiled. The Government’s ‘tobacco control strategy’ also proposes banning smoking at entrances to buildings and selling cigarettes in plain grey packets as part of a series of policies aimed at halving the…

Daily exercise? No, we're too busy, say Britons as two out of three fail to get 30 minutes a day By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:54 AM on 01st February 2010 Comments (9) Add to My Stories Maybe tomorrow? Nearly half of adults are 'too busy' to do physical activity Two out of three Britons don’t get the recommended 30 minutes of physical activity a day, research has revealed. Nearly half of adults (44 per cent) are simply ‘too busy’ to exercise, says the survey of 2,000 by the British Heart Foundation. Although three quarters of those questioned consider themselves healthy, 93 per cent confess to having at least one health s…

Pictured: Three cheetahs spare tiny antelope's life... and play with him instead By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:14 PM on 01st February 2010 Comments (152) Add to My Stories Hello little antelope, would you like to play with us? Coming from three deadly cheetahs, it's the kind of invitation that's best refused - but amazingly, this impala escaped unscathed from its encounter. Luckily for the youngster, it seems these three male cheetahs simply weren't hungry. No claws for alarm: Astonishingly, these cheetahs, whose instinct is to hunt for food, decide to play with this baby impala That's because unlike other big cats, t…

Today is 'National sickie day' for Britain as 350,000 take the day off By Scott Warren Last updated at 12:55 PM on 01st February 2010 Comments (9) Add to My Stories British workers are forecast to be off work in droves today, with 350,000 estimated to be taking a sickie. 'National Sickie Day' will likely cost the nation more than £30million in lost business opportunities, reduced levels of service and output, and salary and overtime payments. The findings, released following a survey by Employment Law Advisory Services (ELAS), come as it emerged that 25 per cent of bosses now accept and email or text message from staff to inform them they …

Hi, So have a music blog at theamarar.blogspot.com, and I want to do two things: 1. Make the background completely white 2. Widen the blog so it fits the entire screen - right now it only takes up the middle section. The RHS sidebar is an ok width, its just the blogging part I would like to widen. Im terrible at CSS code, and have read through both http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46870 and http://www.blogdoctor.me/2006/10/how-to-change-width-of-blog.html but I still can't get it to work. Is anyone able to help? Plus, if you're an expert, I can entrust someone to log in and fix the problems for me. This will lead to th…

Disney's next animated fairy tale, The Frog Princess, will feature the studio's first black princess. Maddy is an African-American girl living amid the faded grandeur of New Orleans' French quarter. The movie will also see a return to the hand-drawn animation process, instead of using computer animation that has become the industry standard. The film will be made by John Musker and Ron Clements, the team behind The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. Cajun charm Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook said: "The film's New Orleans setting and strong princess character give the film lots of excitement and texture." Composer and singer Randy Newman will provide…

'Tough Guy' contest: Eight miles of mud, barbed wire, broken glass and fire... the race that defies our 'elf and safety culture By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:25 PM on 31st January 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories More than 5,000 people worldwide descended on a small corner of farmland today to brave mud, rain, ice and fire on a gruelling assault course dubbed 'the world's hardest endurance test'. Thousands of competitors, some in superhero fancy dress as Superman and Robocop, flocked to the 'Tough Guy' contest in Perton, Staffordshire, today to push their bodies to the limit in frosty temperatures. Enlarge A competitor …

1) Supertroopers (Never gets old) 2) Uhm. I don't get scary movies.

Children as young as 11 drinking nine pints a week By Daniel Martin Last updated at 3:23 PM on 27th January 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Children as young as 11 claim to be downing nine pints of beer every week, in the latest shocking example of the depths to which Binge Britain has sunk. An official survey of 23,000 youngsters unveiled a regional breakdown of drinking habits for the first time and found that in the worst area, the north east, more than a quarter of 11 to 15 year olds said they had touched alcohol at least once in the past week. Those who drank said they knocked back an average of 17.7 units a week - equivalent to nin…

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The tell tail clue to a happy dog... they wag it to the left By Jonathan Petre Last updated at 10:01 PM on 30th January 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories Welcome sign: A wag to the left is friendlier than one to the right Everyone knows that if a dog's ears are up and its tail is wagging vigorously, it is definitely pleased to see you. Now, scientists using a robot have found that the way dogs use their tails is more subtle than we thought and that dogs that wag them to the left may be more friendly. The animal psychologists discovered that when real dogs approached a life-sized black Labrador with a mechanical tail, they were less w…

You're a liar and murderer they screamed at him: Fury in public gallery as Blair says 'I have not a regret' By James Chapman Last updated at 10:22 PM on 29th January 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories An unrepentant Tony Blair was heckled and jeered by families of Britain's war dead last night as he declared he had 'not a regret' about invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein. At the end of what had been billed as his 'Judgment Day', the former Prime Minister made it clear he would do the same again - and warned world leaders they may soon have to take similar decisions over Iran. Despite the deaths of up to 700,000 Iraqis and 179 Bri…

Ashley Cole banned from driving for doing more than 100mph in a 50mph zone By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:23 AM on 29th January 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories England footballer Ashley Cole has been banned from driving for doing 104mph in a 50mph zone England footballer Ashley Cole was today banned from driving for doing more than 100mph in a 50mph zone. The Chelsea star claimed he was being chased by paparazzi when a speed gun recorded him driving his black Lamborghini Gallardo at 104mph. Magistrates at Kingston today imposed a four-month ban and £1,000 fine. However, Cole's legal team immediately launched a bid …

X-ray reveals how quackers dog swallowed rubber duck... costing owners £1,000 in vet fees By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:55 PM on 29th January 2010 Comments (0) Add to My Stories It might not be the prettiest rubber duck in the country, but it's probably the most expensive. Colin Smith and Lorraine Fenton had to pay more than £1,000 to have the bathroom toy removed from their dog Spike's stomach after he swallowed it whole. The couple noticed the Patterdale terrier, who is usually a bundle of energy, had become sluggish and lethargic. Foreign object: An X-ray of Spike the dog's stomach reveals the rubber duck he swallowed wh…

I am so looking forward to this years F1 season Teams & Drivers Mclaren Jenson Button & Lewis Hamilton Mercedes GP (Brawn) Nico Rosberg & Another German Fiatarri Felipe Massa & Fernando Alonso Red Bull Sebastian Vettel & Mark Webber (No 2010 Car Pictures yet) Williams Rubens Barrichello & Nico Hulkenberg (No 2010 Car Pictures yet) Renault Robert Kubica & TBA? (No 2010 Car Pictures yet) Force India Adrian Sutil & Vitantonio Liuzzi (No 2010 Car Pictures yet) Toro Rosso Sebastien Buemi & Jaime Alguersuari (No 2010 Car Pictures yet) Lotus :) Jarno Trulli & Heikki Kov…