'Drinking Problems Rife in Orchestras'

Rarely has a headline seemed so mysterious, so seedy, and yet at once so ripe with promise...

Otter tours Scotland in postbag

Sorry to do a cute creature-feature, but it is a great headline, surely?

Via the Daily Quail, I bring you this effort from the Metro (can't find it on the website unfortunately). Definitely a worthy addition to the catalogue.



'Accused Killer 'A Very Good Cook''

Labour is bound to bypass the lessons of the 58ers

What, don't put all your first XI on the same charter flight?

Thanks Polly but I'm not sure how that's relevant to whatever Westminster bobbins you want to talk about this week.

Now she has her pitbull cloned. But once she manacled a mormon for sex

The story itself is just as wonderful. You probably heard about the woman who's been to Korea and had 5 clones made of her dead dog. But it turns out that in 1977,

'A Mormon missionary from Utah called Kirk Anderson, who was going door-to-door in Ewell, Surrey, was kidnapped at gunpoint by McKinney, a former cheerleader and beauty queen from North Carolina. With the help of a friend, Keith May, McKinney drugged Anderson with chloroform and drove him to a rented 17th century cottage near Okehampton, Devon. There the unfortunate young man was chained, spreadeagled, to a bed, with several pairs of mink-lined handcuffs, and over the next few days he was repeatedly required to have sex with McKinney, who later explained that she had been keen to bear his child.'

Incidentally, I first heard this story - about the dogs, not about the man being, as Mark Corrigan would say, effectively raped - on the World Service, where she was interviewed saying that the puppies were a gift from Jesus. When the interview was over and it went back to the studio, one of the presenters said to the other,

"Well that was - just weird frankly."

'Throughout Norman Solomon's Judaism there is a freshness of approach which will make it interesting to those who already know something about Judaism. The conversational style will also make it variable for beginners.''

Marcus Braybrook of the Church Times reviews Judaism: A Very Short Introduction.

'RBS Asks Shareholders for Cash'

Got any spare change govner? Spare a million for a multinational bank miss? 

"Meet Sexy Arabs Here!" - the advert above this very blog.

"Nurse denies disliking old people "