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Senior Tory arrested over leaks

“Conservative immigration spokesman Damian Green has been arrested and released on bail in connection with a series of leaks from the Home Office. Police say Mr Green was held on suspicion of ‘conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office’”. Now, of course, there is information which the police have which us in the general [...]

Cows also have regional accents

“Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have confirmed – they decided to examine the issue after dairy farmers noticed their cows had slightly different moos, depending on which herd they came from”. The story is accompanied recordings of moos of different cows from different parts of the country, all of which sound different. [...]

Summer launch for Christmas range

Every year that venerable institution, They, likes to make the complaint that ‘Christmas gets earlier every year’, and how wrong it is that you can buy your crackers in October from the supermarket. I was drawn to this news item by John Humphries foaming at the mouth on the Today programme at how terrible it [...]