The News in Brief

Summer holiday with a difference!

How do you fancy a fortnight in war torn Afghanistan this summer? Or what about a weekend in Libya? Or how about backpacking in Sudan, does that tickle your fancy or is North Korea more to your liking?

By now you are probably thinking I’ve lost it (thought that a long time ago, Ed.) but it’s not as far-fetched as you may think. A holiday company in England is offering three thousand pound getaways to Iraq of all places. And no, not in the famous ‘Green Zone’ but touring in bandit country! For your money you will get the protection of guards armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles (or AK 47’s as they are popularly known).

I guess it beats Benidorm! But I’ll be taking my holidays at home this year and treating myself to some delightful female company, with fun loving busty escorts top of my wish list!

Face time

Latest figures show that more than half of all Britains are on Facebook. Thirty million folk now use Facebook on a regular basis and many spend more time using the social networking tool than they do watching television apparently. Incredibly a quarter of these people log on for more than three hours a day. Get a life I say!

Anyway, I’m not convinced by the numbers. Just because you are online and you are logged into your Facebook account doesn’t mean you are actively using the tool, you could be watching internet tv, gaming or compiling a spreadsheet at the same time.

Spooky

Is there a reason why ghosts are increasingly on the prowl, haunting these fair shores? In the nineteen fifties a survey reported that around one person in every twenty had seen a ‘ghost’. Now that figure has risen to one in four! Thankfully I am one of the one in three and I hope it stays that way!

Bang Bang

Nice to see that Ashley Cole has learned his lesson after shooting a trainee Chelsea footballer in the side with an air pistol. Out on the driving range perfecting his swing cool Mr Cole has been pictured sporting a white t-shirt with a diamond encrusted gun emblazoned across the front. A case of bling with a bang I guess...

Drive by Chipping

Watch out all ye folk of Weybridge in Surrey! A vicious gang of potato pelters is terrorising the sleepy town by hurling tubers from a car at folk as they drive by.

Trouble and Strife

A Californian woman has survived an arduous and terrifying forty mile ride on the bonnet of her husband’s car, after he decided to teach her a lesson during an argument... Clearly he didn’t ‘car’ for her... (that’s rubbish! Ed.)