Posts Tagged ‘ england ’

  • Josh Hartnett Sues Daily Mirror
    Comments - Posted 09.09.08

    Josh Hartnett isn’t happy, and that’s putting it lightly. He’s pissed enough to sue The Daily Mirror in the UK, requesting damages, defamation, and an apology (one in public, that is), and it’s over a story that he had a “saucy hotel romp” with a girl in a hotel library. The Mirror claims that the [...]

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  • Joss Stone to Potentially Ruin One of My Favorite Shows
    Comments - Posted 08.05.08

    As cool as it is to discover your talents, I’m not sure if I want to see Joss Stone doing it on one of my favorite programs, The Tudors. After all, she still fleshing out her career on both the large and small-screen with a just a few films to her name. . .
    According to [...]

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  • Superb Hits Red Sea Rock
    Comments - Posted 05.27.08

    The British nuclear submarine HMS Superb has hit a rock in the Red Sea.
    According to the Guardian, none of the crew was injured and all remained on board as the navy considered where the submarine would dock for repairs. The vessel is unable to dive because of the damaged sonar. The last Royal Navy submarine [...]

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  • English Exam Papers Had Answers On The Back, Less Than 5% Of Students Noticed
    Comments - Posted 05.23.08

    12,000 teenagers sitting their UK High School (GCSE) music exam last week had an advantage previous student didn’t have, all the answers were printed on the back.
    Reuters reports that the error was only notice after the exam had been sat, but won’t be forcing students to resit the exam because less than 5% of students [...]

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  • Facebook Waterfight Trashes Garden
    Comments - Posted 05.08.08

    350 participants of a public waterfight organized over Facebook have trashed an award winning garden in England.
    The site of the waterfight, Millennium Square garden in Leeds was built in honor of Nelson Mandela and awarded a medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2004. The City Council said that the fight “destroyed the garden” [...]

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  • Seal Molests Penguin: This is news in the UK
    Comments - Posted 05.04.08

    A sexually frustrated Antarctic fur seal has been caught on camera trying to make love to a king penguin, according to the UK paper The Daily Mail.
    Scientests told the paper that it was the most unusual case of mammal mating behavior yet known, and was probably the result of the young male seal being sexually [...]

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  • Nuclear War Would Cause Tea Shortage
    Comments - Posted 05.04.08

    The British Government agonized over a global shortage of tea following a nuclear war, newly release papers have disclosed.
    “The tea position would be very serious with a loss of 75 percent of stocks and substantial delays in imports and with no system of rationing it would be wrong to consider that even one ounce (28 [...]

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