The human organ had been used as a prop in the music video for ‘You Said Our Love was First Class, So Why’s My Heart Always Riding In Coach’. Darnella Dimple explains: “We borrowed an actual heart to use as a metaphor for a real heart, we just forgot to take it back. Oh, and our drummer forgot his sticks too”.
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Barclays customers can now ‘switch off’ types of spending. Men switch off ‘spending time with the wife and kids’.
December 11, 2018Barclays has become the first High Street bank to allow its customers to “switch off” certain categories of spending. The original idea was to help vulnerable customers, particularly problem gamblers, or those in serious debt. However, a number of customers – primarily men – have chosen to switch off other types of spending such as spending time with their wife and kids or spending a penny so they can get a good night’s sleep.
Walkers to recycle cheese and onion crisp packets. Being brought into circulation in place of the falling pound.
December 10, 2018On the same day the UK Pound falls to its lowest value in two years in the midst of a…
Data disruption leaves 32m mobile users offline. Plans to let O2 supply actual O2 put on hold.
December 10, 2018After an embarrassing day of disruption, telephony giant O2 has finally managed to get its data network back online. After…
Build a bear’s ‘pay your age’ promo causes chaos. Meanwhile Durex’s ‘pay your length’ deal doubles profits.
July 13, 2018Build-A-Bear Workshops around the country saw with mile-long queues turn violent when the chain decided to abandon a promotional “pay your age” discount…
Bus companies to suffer because of May’s NHS-funding fuel hikes. “Good!” – says anyone who remembers how we got into the mess in the first place…
July 3, 2018NHS money to be found In the bottom of our beer, and in the price of our petrol. Backbench MPs have condemned the plans as “wrong-headed”. Because if Brits can no longer afford to drink OR drive, they might well stay at home, watch the news, and start paying attention to the dire situation this country’s in.
Uber gets 15 month license extension. Oh hang on, now it’s 18 months. No – 3. Shit, now they’ve cancelled. Oh it’s ok – I’ve got a new guy. Now he’s cancelled too…!
June 27, 2018Taxi Driver’s Association responds: “The justice system has failed Londoners today”. And it’s true. They have. As a Londoner, I’m absolutely gutted that my right to have no other option but to spend £50 on a taxi after a night out has been taken away from me. Damn you TFL!!!
Brexit uncertainty leaves Airbus considering a move to china. The controversial plans would see it teach English in Beijing for a year, then backpack around South East Asia to find itself.
June 22, 2018In other news today, the government has produced a myth-busting guide to promote fruit picking jobs. Forget long hours, hard toil and low pay – says the report – join the government.
“Pubs: don’t buy CO2 from a White Van Man” – of course not – the second he opens the door…
June 20, 2018The UK’s supply of beer and fizzy drinks could run out within the week – due to a shortage of CO2. The World Cup has created an entirely predictable increase in demand that the industry seemingly wasn’t expecting – as 3 of the 4 large production plants in the UK are offline for maintenance, and it’ll take until July to bring any of them back online.