"More than 400 people have pledged to join tonight’s demonstration, while 600 say they will attend a similar protest at the pub next Wednesday. Attendees are being urged to order nothing more than tap water to prevent the bar making money."

"Scientists have been able to reach into the mind of a brain-damaged man and communicate with his thoughts."

The research, carried out in the UK and Belgium, involved a new brain scanning method.

Awareness was detected in three other patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.

"The government hopes introducing safer pint glasses, still made of glass, will help reduce injuries. As well as the human cost, it also hopes it will reduce the financial burden of alcohol-related crime, which currently costs the NHS £2.7bn a year.

Now, two new prototypes for beer glasses have been unveiled, as part of a programme involving the Design Council. Launched by the Home Office's Design and Technology Alliance, the aim is to use design to tackle crime."

"Uniform policy is increasingly taking an absurdly draconian shift in its approach to the decisions kids make about how they wear their hair, banning any style more interesting than that you would ordinarily find on an Abbey National correspondence clerk clad in a Next business suit. Uniform policies nowadays are uniformly filled with such pitifully and vehemently ignorant statements as "patterns cut into the hair are not acceptable". Not acceptable to whom? Or, "hair colour will be restricted to that found in normal hair". And normal means what, exactly?"

"The thing is, magic is a branch of applied mathematics, and the inmates here are not only mad: they’re computer science graduates. That’s why they came to the attention of the Laundry in the first place, and it’s also why they ultimately ended up in the Farm, where we can keep them away from sharp pointy things and diagrams with the wrong sort of angles. But it’s difficult to make sure they’re safe. You can solve theorems with a blackboard if you have to, after all, or in your head, if you dare."

"I am a postman and concerned at the absence in the media of any account of how mail delivery is organised and what Royal Mail's modernisation programme entails."

"Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined for her singing by the Performing Right Society (PRS)."

"It shows the keenness of leading players in Britain’s media industry and Government to lobby the quango, which rules on complaints about TV programmes and carves up the radio and mobile phone markets."

"This week, Jase Kuriakose an engineer at CAT turned on the UK’s first totally renewable micro grid. The systems works by combining all the wind, solar, bio mass and hydro energy we produce at CAT and storing it in a battery bank. When it needs more energy it simply connects to the grid through an intelligent electronic control device to take more, when we are producing too much it gives the energy to the national grid."

"Fathers will be able to take six months' paternity leave, the government has announced. The move will allow mothers to decide to return to work after six months and fathers to stay at home for the rest of the 12 months off allowed by law."

"There is a war being fought between customers and many of the firms they have to deal with. It is an asymmetric conflict - the little man versus the faceless, bad customer service monoliths."

On the little man's side there are only newspaper consumer pages and a rather handy selection of laws.

"As if the Government taking official statistics directly from partisan sources wasn't bad enough, the BBC reporter Oliver Hawkins also found that the figures were based on some highly questionable assumptions. The 7m figure had actually been rounded up from an actual figure of 6.7m. That 6.7m was gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software - in other words, only 136 people. It gets worse. That 11.6% of respondents who admitted to file sharing was adjusted upwards to 16.3% "to reflect the assumption that fewer people admit to file sharing than actually do it." The report's author told the BBC that the adjustment "wasn't just pulled out of thin air" but based on unspecified evidence"

"A team of conservationists are having to repair damage caused to a Dorset landmark by an episode of the BBC's Challenge Anneka. Television star Anneka Rice attempted to spruce up the Osmington White Horse landmark in Weymouth in 1989, but 20 years on the repairs are coming undone."

"The Daily Express had a prime example over the weekend of what can happen when you fiddle around with a headline."

"BRITAIN is set to become 68% more pleasant as the Edinburgh Fringe draws in the country's full quota of pathologically self-absorbed bastards for the next three weeks. As the rest of the country enjoys a well-earned break, the Scottish capital will once again be awash with sixth-form poetry, half-baked political idealism and post-modern reworkings of the A-Team as a feminist statement about pubes."

"The church has already held religious blessings for same-sex couples who have had a civil partnership ceremony. But agreeing to perform gay marriages, which are currently not allowed under civil law, could bring the Quakers into conflict with the government."

" met Antony at a talk where he effectively sold the idea of the plinth project to me. I dreamt that I would end up standing on the plinth on a Saturday night st 3am and it has come true, weird! I like the idea of a strange snap shot of Britain through all the random people that have been chosen by computer. At least it is a democratic shot in the dark. I currently plan to do a bit of drumming and to resurrect my red character from last Samhuinn."

"The purpose of the Bryant letters is to spell out that the British Foreign Office policy of support for gay and lesbian rights is not just a formality, but instead a central part of the government's drive for human rights that diplomats are to champion as part of British foreign policy."

"Married Labour MPs Ann and Alan Keen have come under fire for claiming thousands of pounds on a second home near Parliament, while their designated main home is only 10 miles away. Now a group of men have taken direct action by squatting in the main home they say has been left unoccupied."

"It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."

"A decision by David Cameron, the Conservative party leader, to join a new bloc in the European parliament means that it will find itself allied to a Polish party that critics have branded as homophobic, eccentric and nationalistic. "

"Then, launching into utopian hyperbole, he mused: "You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken."

We'd like to see him try Twittering that to people in Sudan, or Northern Sri Lanka, or Somalia."

Tsvangirai boldly states"Zimbabweans must come home.", a cacophony of protest and chanting from the crowd.

"The manufacturer of a hydrogen car unveiled in London on Tuesday will make its designs available online so the cars can be built and improved locally."

Features the use of ultracapacitors.

"'It's always nice to knock down an urban myth with good data,' he said. "

"Today is Doncaster’s brand-spanking-new [English Democrat party] Mayor’s first day on the job, and his first engagement of the day was an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield’s Toby Foster. I hope Mayor Davies didn’t think he was in for an easy ride for his first official interview, because that’s not what he got."

"But by referring to "professional politicians", Griffin is presumably suggesting we should elect amateurs instead. Maybe that's why the advert's so amateurish. Maybe that's why all the BNP representatives in the ad read their lines so clumsily, like DFS employees in a bank holiday sale commercial circa 1986, or recently revived chemical coma patients being forced to recite barcode numbers at gunpoint. It's deliberate incompetence. Don't vote for those nasty slick parties. Vote for a shoddy one! Never mind the extremism, feel the ineptitude."

"To launch the Huddersfield Policy campaign, that Margaret Thatcher should pay for her own funeral, I have designed a postcard to protest the prospect of a state funeral for Margaret Thatcher. The person with most say on a state funeral is Elizabeth Windsor (sometimes known as the Queen), thus the cards should be sent to her, seeking to influence her decision making in advance of Margaret Thatcher's demise. You can download the card here, simply print, sign and post."

"The police officer's profile page on social networking site Facebook contained a message apparently written by Pc Ward at 2017 BST on 1 April. It stated: 'Rob Ward can't wait to bash some long haired hippys up @ the G20.'"

"To no-one's surprise, a new report shows that faith schools have completely failed to improve educational standards and have instead led to social fragmentation"

"The best way to respond to what-aboutery is to state a simple truth. Say it slowly: there can be more than one bad thing in the world. You can oppose American atrocities, and Chinese atrocities. You can be critical of Israel, and of Islamism. You can condemn Dubai's system of slavery, and the fact people are detained without trial in Britain. You can stand independent of governments - including your own - and criticize anyone who chooses to abuse human rights. The world is not divided into a Block of Light, and a Block of Darkness; you don't have to pick a tribe and defend its every action. "

"And if you read through the original book it's startling and a bit eerie how many opportunities Jane Austen left in her original work for ultra-violent zombie mayhem. You have this sharp-tongued character in Elizabeth Bennet - it's not that big a leap to put a sword in her hand and say she's now a slayer of the undead. "

"We always knew the ASA was just another tool of the politically-correct secularist establishment, but here's the proof."

Mike Godwin (General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation) provides an interesting afterword on the recent Internet Watch Foundation's blocking of a Wikipedia article.

"Andrew Mason from security firm Random Storm bought some network hardware from auction site eBay for 99p. When he switched it on and plugged it in, the device automatically connected to the internal network of Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire."

"A man who fathered a child for a lesbian couple angrily confronted a group of Fathers 4 Justice protesters today as they demonstrated with a banner against 'Lesbo Dads'"

"When you have the choice that either surplus food is put to good use like this or goes to landfill, then it's a bit of a no-brainer really ...It's just about putting the mechanisms in place to make it happen."

"cheeky police are said to have left a fridge-magnet calling card after smashing into the wrong house. ...The family came home to find [the] fridge magnets rearranged to spell "OLDHAM TASK FORCE CALLED"."

""They showed me the footage from the helicopter and I couldn't believe it. They said if I hadn't been in they would have broken the door down to get in. ... If there's nothing wrong with our house how come we've been raided by the police?"

"Religious people could have the legal entitlement to discriminate on conscientious grounds against gay people after an employment tribunal ruled in favour of a Christian council worker."

"Yesterday afternoon the Union flag was replaced with the international symbol of the LGBT community at the British embassy in the Latvian capital." *wondering if it'll fly at Warsaw Pride in 2 days time*

Five months in, Nick Clegg gets mad.

the guide ... kindly describ[es Engllish] as "animal-loving, tea-drinking, charity donors" whose "warmth is in the humour". But ... "The English have become obedient consumers rather than active citizens, with brand loyalty the nearest thing to religious/

"A man posing as Darth Vader attacked a Star Wars fan, who had founded a Jedi Church, a court has heard. ... Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: 'I hope the force will soon be with hi

"This is your definitive guide to eating out, and in, in Edinburgh."

"The Telegraph will soon become the first newspaper in the world, and the first British media company, to become an OpenID provider. Readers will be able to begin using the service from the end of February."

"Put away your credit card! This is a completely free site."

"This will allow, by 2017, the eventual conversion of all the Freeview transmission to high definition. In ten years, it expected that the entire Freeview service could be transformed to high definition."

"Allowing hype to build about an early election was a "massive error of judgment" by Gordon Brown, he said."

"The Happy Ending Foundation is planning a series of Bad Book Bonfires for later this month, when parents will be encouraged to burn novels with negative endings."

"In the battle to tame 'neighbours from hell', one scheme is at the cutting edge of government strategy. Amelia Hill was granted unprecedented access to see how violence-prone families are helped and given hope."

"The Shipping Forecast can be heard four times a day on BBC Radio 4, giving details of conditions in the seas around the UK, Ireland and beyond. Each broadcast attracts hundreds of thousands of listeners, many of them with no connection to coastal waters

"it is a curiosity that, quite possibly, the more we listen to what some people say, the less we know about what - or even if - most people think."

"It seems to me that the purpose of this show is to effect a morbid and depressing display of dysfunctional people whose lives are in turmoil." He added that it was "human bear-baiting which goes under the guise of entertainment".

"To date Höller has installed six smaller slides in other galleries and museums, but the cavernous space of the Turbine Hall offers a unique setting in which to extend his vision." ... he sees it as a prototype ... in which slides could be introduced acr

"Back in 2004, the average cost of a pair of glasses bought at big high street chains like Specsavers was £148.85. Now you can get quality glasses, custom made to your precise prescription for just £18.75 complete."

"A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street. The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard."

"The internet and other new forms of gambling have not led to an increase in people having a flutter since 1999, a Gambling Commission study has found. In fact, due to a drop in the National Lottery sales, the numbers of people gambling fell from 72% in 1

"I am not appalled by photographs of this kind. What is appalling about two young people who are obviously very affectionate towards each other?"

IMPORTANT NOTE: DrugScope emphasises that the survey represents only a snapshot view of the current UK drug trends and average UK drug prices.

"There's something wonderfully naive about the ancient Greeks because they were right at the beginning of it all," says Mr Worley. "There's something that the children can identify with - it is at the same level as themselves, but it is also sophisticated

"By the age of three, children from disadvantaged homes are up to a year behind in their learning than those from more privileged backgrounds"

Well duh.

"Chavs are the foot soldiers of corporate consumerism. They wear branded kit, congregate around halls of bland consumerism – shopping centers, cinemas, fast food outlets – and target anyone who stands out. ..."

"GLORIFYING TERRORISM (Rackstraw Press) is, technically, illegal - because every SF/F story in this anthology breaks the current UK law that bans the glorification of terrorism. Whatever that is, of course."

As title.

"Yup. You can sleep a lot better knowing that you had nothing to do with furthering the problems..."

"A better organised, more attractive network could get people around faster, save tonnes of carbon - and cost almost nothing."

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