Jade Goody
Dear Editor, We are happy to say that Jade Goody has had a BIG impact to women, even overseas. My mother and her friends haven’t had a smear test in
Payment after death
A New York funeral director is offering a free funeral to a builder who will undertake a construction job at his Manhattan home in exchange. Funeral director, Peter Dohanich wrote
Vampire unearthed in Italy
Italian researchers in Venice believe they have found the remains of a female vampire, buried with a brick between her jaws to prevent her feeding on victims of a plague
Animal rescuer arrested
A mayor from the South Texas town of Brownsville in the US was accused of breaking into a second storey apartment as he tried to rescue a dog he thought
Crime dog takes a punch
A bus driver in the US city of Washington was detained and charged with assault after punching a policeman for fun. Shawn Brim, 38, thought it would be amusing to
Doggy bags
Dear Editor, I have just read about the Algarve Tourism Board breeding a dog for the US President…have they gone mad? Surely they need to clean up their own doorstep
Cyber love
A study carried out by broadband association Bitkom in Germany found that many German people in their 20s would rather leave their spouses and do without a car than lose
Football friendship
Dear Editor, Recently we were recruited by your football correspondent Chris Wright to join SC Olhanense supporters for their trip to Porto where they were playing Boavista on the Sunday
Happy pills for Skip
Dear Editor, Time to move on Skip Bandele. Your correspondent Skip seems to have lost his happy pills, which in itself does not bother me. But is does bother me
Talking to God
A Dutch artist has set up a local telephone number in the Netherlands, where people can leave messages for God on his answering machine. Johan van der Dong said he