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For every Olympic games, there is a specific mascot designed.  For the 2012 Olympic games in London, they have decided to be slightly more creative than in the past years.  The designers have decided to created some animated mascots.  Not only have the mascots been created, the designers have created an animated series in which [...]

Just earlier today, England found out who the next Prime Minster was going to be.  The conservatives won the most seats from the election but did not get enough of a majority to completely win the election.  This caused for the first time in many years, England to have a hung parliament.  For the last [...]

Many people in England are ready to vote tomorrow as the election for our next Prime Minister is held throughout the day.  Gordon Brown, David Cameron, and Nick Clegg are all anxiously awaiting to see which one of them will become the next Prime Minister.  Currently David Cameron, the Tory leader is ahead whilst Gordon [...]

Tonight in England was the final PM debate.  The three main party leaders in the UK went head to head for the last time before the election on Thursday (a week from today).  David Cameron (Tory leader), Gordon Brown (Labour leader), and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat leader) all battled it out over the questions asked [...]

Yesterday whilst Gordon Brown was visting some areas in England before the upcoming election on Thursday, he made quite a big error.  During his short visit in Rochdale the Prime Minister talked to a woman called Gillian Duffy who questioned the PM on some of the issues England face such as immigration, crime, and national [...]

Just recently, a 16 year old boy attacked a 46 year old woman by pouring bleach on her.  Mrs Warden, the woman who was attacked was eating at Ben & Jerry’s along with her family.  Previous to eating at Ben & Jerry’s, she went to watch Harry Potter at the cinemas.  Whilst she was watching [...]

British Airways is very likely to cause some serious trouble this Christmas break. 92% of the employees voted in favor of a strike that would start on December 22nd and last for 12 days. The consequences of this strike would be disastrous. The british paper The Guardian has calculated that this strike would affect 1 million passengers, [...]

A British woman, Emily Wallis who has been looking for her biological father for several years now has finally found him, but much to her surprise, her father is a transvestite. Emily’s mother has always described her biological father, Harrison, a manly man who was a professional boxer with tattoos everywhere on his body, so [...]

Last week two teenage girls jumped off the  Erskine bridge holding hands in a suicide pact. The 125 foot high bridge is close to the residential house just outside Glasgow, Scotland where they were both staying. Neve Lafferty, 15, from Helensburgh and Georgia Rowe, 14, from Hull had only met and become friends weeks before  [...]

David Letterman has been on TV for what has seemed to be forever. Letterman made is debut on the late night show on CBS in 1982. The Late Night Show was an immediate hit on TV’s all across America. The show has hosted movie stars, athletes, or people like former presidents on the show. However, [...]

The most popular British mind reader successfully predicted the Lottery number on BBC1. Derren Brown’s magic surprised every audience that night. The BBC 1 TV show displays the whole process of his magic show. Recently, he reveals that he is going to be the TV show, “How To Control The Nation”.  He claims that he will use [...]

The British government has published a blacklist of people banned from entering the U.K. The list included a Hamas lawmaker, Jewish extremist, anti-gay protestors and an American talk show host. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said that she decided to publish the 16 person blacklist to “clarify what behavior Britain will not tolerate.” She also added [...]

Press about the deteriorating economy all around the world seems to have dissipated recently since the election here in America has ended and Obama’s administration seems to be doing all they can to improve the current state of it. But, back in Britain, things seem to be just as bad as they were 6 months [...]

Just 48 hours after two soldiers were murdered by the IRA, a policeman was shot dead in County Armagh, in Northern Ireland. The policeman was married with children. He was responding to a call from a distressed woman when he and his partner were shot at. His partner, fortunately, survived the attack. Political officials are [...]

Britain’s fattest teenager, Malissa Jones, has recently lost 280 pounds by having surgery. Just 17 years old, she is the youngest person in the world to have a stomach bypass. She was hooked on eating and had horrific eating habits since she was two. She saw eating as a comforting thing to do and after [...]

Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne. When they first discovered that Chantelle was pregnant, they immediately went against abortion and said that abortion was not an option because the father “thought it [...]

The most unusual and surprising thing happened in England in which kissing is banned at a railway station. This idea was brought up by a chief executive of the Warrington Chamber of Commerce. According to him, passionate kissing is often seen at the railway station in Warrington Chamber and is causing delays for commuters. Warrington [...]

The whole world is feeling the devestating effects of the recession. Unemployment and salary cuts are common place in most of Europe. Consumers are cutting down spending by various ways and means. Eating more meals in the house is an effective method for cutting down monetary outflow. In UK, however, several restaurants are offering free [...]

Stats taken between September-November last year recorded that 1.92 people were unemployed in the United Kingdom, the highest since 1997. This, however, does not include the people since then who have been laid off. Between these three months (September-November) the unemployment rate was 6.1%, dramatically up from the 5.2% during the same time in 2007. [...]

Jayne Soliman, a successful and well-known ice skating coach from Great Britain was 25 weeks pregnant and felt perfectly healthy, until… her death. Dooms day came when she suddenly felt a very intense headache, became unconscious, and collapsed at her home. Jayne was airlifted to the Hospital of John Radcliffe, where doctors stated her diagnosis [...]

Sky Real Lives has filmed a documentary directed by Oscar winner John Zaritsky. The producers of the documentary, called ‘Right to Die?’ are defending their decision to capture the moment of one man’s death on camera.  Craig Ewert, a motor neurone disease patient is the man who allowed Sky to tape his death. In 2006 he died, father [...]