From This is Gloucestershire last month…..the printed version has a great headline on a story about girls’ schools. Unfortunately it’s no longer on the web version, but the dead tree copy survives to give us a laugh…

Outrageous headlinery from the indispensable Islington Gazette.

A clue: wait until your haircut is finished: A New Haven, Conn., man is in the hospital and due in court later this month after police said he stabbed someone while getting his hair cut in Stamford.David Davis, 21 of New Haven, was sitting inside an apartment on Henry Street […]

Amazing stuff from the never-to-be-missed East Anglian Daily Times where we learn of exciting news from Beccles in Suffolk. It’s got to be the best three line news item in the history of history. Beccles: Firefighters called to report of person trapped under sofa A confused resident called out fire […]

We think the it’s bad in the UK. Eyes roll when a Community Equality Outreach Team Support Officer (Policy Division) feels the need to tick boxes before you can change a lightbulb. But from the Romanian Times we learn that things can be just as bad overseas… Cash-strapped road bosses […]

With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, it’s always worth doing a bit of research to maximise your chances of love romance sex. So this mash-up of answers from 34,260 OkCupid clients ticks enough boxes to fill our Bloody Stupid Survey O’ The Week slot. So no matter their gender or orientation, beer-lovers are 60% more […]

Today. Pure optimism on a stick. “Alternatively, book an unforgettable Nile cruise and watch the wonders of Egypt float by“…face downwards. Discounts?

Taiwanese man has sued his neighbours claiming that they trained their mynah bird to swear at him and that the bird’s relentless taunting caused him serious emotional distress and injuries. It seems that Wang Han-chin had previously complained to police that his neighbours were too loud, and he claimed that […]

This can only be one step down from doing a degree on Coronation Street. It’s official. When, in hundreds of years, the future of humanity scours the U.S. Library of Congress for clues as to how primitively we lived back in the early 21st century, the jive-talking granny in “Airplane!” […]

….because they say you should always look for the good news in everything. And you know you’re having a bad day when: A middle-aged man was beaten to death allegedly by his four wives at village Kabirpur under sadar upazila of the district early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as […]