The Daily Mail newspaper is in crisis after the Caps Lock button on its keyboard broke following overuse. The editorial board of the right-wing rag have convened a special emergency crisis meeting aimed at resolving the issue. Some insiders have suggested writing headlines using really big marker pens in the interim to reassure readers that…
Everyone is now looking over the shoulder of the person they are talking to in order to find someone more important or interesting to engage in conversation research has found. The research, published today, observed both social and professional meetings of human beings. In all instances conversations were not had face to face but at…
The Government have endorsed plans to build a high speed rail link across the Pennines as long as it never happens. The plans are set out in a report out today which reveals that it currently takes a day and a half to travel between Manchester and Leeds by train. Other less important details, such…
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A new stagecoach road is to be built across the North of England it has been announced. The government have agreed to fund the £15,000 scheme which will be completed in 2026. Horse drawn vehicles will run along the track with journey times between Manchester and Newcastle cut to just seven…
Nigel Farage loving DJ Mike Read has defended criticisms of his calypso song by saying that he was singing in his real accent. The song, sung in front of UKIP supporters at some sort of UKIP type jamboree, is available to download, with some hoping it would reach number 1 in the charts. Read and…
David Cameron has gone even further in his efforts to prove that he’s as angry about other countries as you by saying he won’t pay any money to any other countries or international organisations. Following angry reactions by Tory and UKIP voters in response to demands from the EU that the UK should contribute a…
The Government have responded to calls by people in places across England for more powers to be devolved from Whitehall by saying they don’t trust people. Despite the government endorsing a report released earlier this week which said Greater Manchester should be given more powers, a leading government ministers has said it is unlikely that…
Lancashire has demanded £1.7 billion from Surrey it has emerged. The move comes on the back of the EU demanding £1.7 billion from the UK because its economy has been doing better than expected recently. Adopting the same principle, Lancashire said it had calculated that Surrey should pay it about £1.7billion because the economy of…
Ed Miliband has confounded critics who say he doesn’t have the courage to sack the floundering Ed Balls by replacing him live on air by a spider. The spider interrupted Ed Balls mid-interview to announce that he’d been made the new Shadow Chancellor by Ed Miliband. The spider then went on to field a number…
The economic impact of devolving more powers to Greater Manchester will be so great that all 2.7 million residents of the city region will become millionaires. The figures come from a report out this week which calls for the area to be given more powers by Whitehall. The report calls for the combined Greater Manchester…
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