According to the BBC….
Information about all landline and mobile phone calls made in the UK must be logged and stored for a year under new laws.
Data about calls made and received will also be available to 652 public bodies, including the police and councils.
The Home Office said the content of calls and texts would not [...]
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Big brother is listening…
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
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Stolen body parts ’sold to NHS’
Monday, September 11th, 2006
BBC NEWS | Health | Stolen body parts ’sold to NHS’
Potentially contaminated body parts allegedly stolen in the US may have been implanted into British patients, a government agency says.
Over 1,000 body parts were plundered by gangs in New York and then sold for transplants, it has been claimed
Well this was certainly a horrific read. [...]
Holidays for teddy bears
Friday, August 5th, 2005
This was found at Ananova
Holidays for teddy bears are being offered by a German travel agent.
Christopher Boehm and Elke Verheugen promise “The holiday of a teddy’s lifetime with a host of activities to tempt teddy away from the loving arms of his owner for a week or two.”
As well as his own room in a [...]
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Astronomers Claim Discovery of 10th Planet
Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Astronomers Claim Discovery of 10th Planet – Yahoo! News
Astronomers announced Friday that they have discovered a new planet larger than Pluto in orbit around the sun. The finding will likely renew debate over what exactly is a planet and whether Pluto should keep its status.
The unnamed object – the farthest-known object in the solar system [...]
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Tourist terrified by 100mph tow!
Saturday, May 7th, 2005
I think the moral to the following story is don’t accept help from strangers…
A tourist whose car broke down feared for his life after another motorist offered him a tow but then pulled him down a motorway at 100mph.
The tourist, 36, from Poland said he was amazed at the friendliness of [...]
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