After the machine, measuring 2.1 metres high by 1.9 metres wide, arrived in Ireland last December officials at the legislature, the Oireachtas, discovered it did not fit into the building. They could not return it to the UK manufacturer because the contract had already been signed. So they moved it to an industrial estate until September, paying storage fees, while builders tore down walls and emb
It came away in my hands. The dog ate it. Honest. When Ryu Matsumoto, Japan's minister for reconstruction, resigned after just a week in the job, one of the excuses he offered was almost as lame. He said he had the wrong blood type – B – which made him a more abrasive personality and accounted for his less-than-tactful remarks about some areas of Japan badly affected by the earthquake and tsunami
There have been two spillages of radioactive waste and a breakdown in an emergency cooling system at Britain's nuclear plants in the last three months, according to a report to ministers leaked to the Guardian. A brown puddle containing plutonium five times the legal threshold at which the site must notify the Health and Safety Executive leaked from an old ventilation duct at the Sellafield nuclea
Soon after the Fukushima accident last month, I stated publicly that a nuclear event of this size and catastrophic potential could present a medical problem of very large dimensions. Events have proven this observation to be true despite the nuclear industry's campaign about the "minimal" health effects of so-called low-level radiation. That billions of its dollars are at stake if the Fukushima ev
My personal trainer and I are always getting into arguments about what part of my body needs the most work. I'm not happy with my abs – I have the remains of a small spare tyre – but she says my bottom is a catastrophe because it's so flat. What we both agree on is that bodies can be remodelled, no matter how old you are. I was a very sickly child. From the age of six I had constant headaches and
Last night I attempted to take an online homeopathy test. Did I pass? Read on to find out ... One of the criticisms I often get from homeopathy supporters is that I don't really understand it. I'm not an expert in the mystical art, so how on Earth can I pass judgement on it? So in an effort to prove them wrong, I took this online homeopathy test that's been doing the rounds on Twitter (tip of the
Fearless health watchdog, the Daily Mail, published a news item a couple of weeks ago headlined Cancer danger of that night-time trip to the toilet. Intro: "Simply turning on a light at night for a few seconds to go to the toilet can cause changes that might lead to cancer, scientists claim." It was, of course, bunkum. The Tabloid Watch blog links to straightforward and crushing denials by the sai
Administrators MCR said the business continued to trade while a buyer is sought for all or some of the company's stores. Borders's future has been uncertain for several days since it emerged that a deal to sell some stores to WH Smith had probably collapsed. On Tuesday it suspended orders on its website. Since July Borders has been owned by Valco Capital Partners, part of Hilco, which specialises
We know Arthur Ransome, don't we? Balding, bespectacled, moustache like the proverbial walrus. Wrote a much-loved if now somewhat dated series of children's classics in the 1930s and 40s in which unusually articulate children with names such as Titty and Roger engage in wholesome outdoor activities such as sailing, camping, eating pemmican and obliging the odd pirate to walk the plank, celebrating
Readers of Chinese use different parts of the brain from readers of English, write Brian Butterworth and Joey Tang Alan's parents are English, but he was born and grew up in Japan. He would pass as a native speaker of either language. What brought Alan to the notice of Taeko Wydell, an expert on Japanese reading, and Brian Butterworth, was that he was severely dyslexic, but only in one language. I
One of the world's biggest banks has been accused of 'cultural insensitivity' after dressing up an overweight white man to look like a sumo wrestler. HSBC, which calls itself 'the world's local bank', is running a series of billboard and print advertisements featuring the wrestler alongside the slogan: 'Fixed savings rates that won't budge.' The campaign has upset members of Britain's Japanese com
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