Nov

22

Things not to say when turning on Christmas lights

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I lead a sheltered existence, where Jo Brand, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Paxman and Babs Windsor [1] are celebrities, so I hadn’t heard of Paul Danan until today. He is apparently a former Hollyoaks actor and has been sacked from Preston’s prestigious panto for swearing at hundreds of kids as he was supposed to be turning [...]

Nov

4

More of the same… and a zebra crossing

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Download dads lead the iPod generation | Money | The Observer
iTunes is an a la carte model: you see the track you like and pay your 79p. A big drawback with iTunes is that it has inbuilt digital rights management (DRM), which prevents you playing ‘your’ music on anything other than an iPod [my emphasis], [...]

Nov

1

“After running onto a train, he is shot dead.”

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Before you read the following, think back to July 2005 and the day you heard of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes. The BBC news website still has a contemporary timeline of the 2005 London alerts which features the following:
1: Jean Charles de Menezes leaves a house under surveillance in south London and arrives [...]