World News

Hammond crash car for saleThe Northampton owners of the 300mph Vampire jet dragster want to sell the car which was built at the Santa Pod workshops around 1981.

We're watching you SantaWell, it's nearly Christmas (or should that be Mithras?) and Santa has already started making his rounds and you can see how far he's got by logging on to the USA's NORAD website.

Is Father Christmas putting our children at risk?Every year thousands of bright eyed kids write letters to Big Red requesting the latest toys for Christmas, but what is he doing with this information?

New ideas on imigrationWith all the immigration, legal and illegal, going on in this country we do seem to be loosing our sense of national identity, or at least Morrissey seems to think so.

Angels banned from primary schoolThe Sacred Heart RC Primary in Paignton has banned children from wearing angel wings in their Christmas nativity play this year after fears that they might spontaneously burst into flames.

450 kegs of beer grow legsIn the Irish equivalent of the great train robbery, a lone thief has driven off with 360 kegs of Guinness and Budweiser and 90 kegs of Carlsberg from the St James's Gate Brewery in Ireland.

Hats off to smokersGuests at the Clifton Hotel in Portland, Dorset, were faced with having to stand outside in the wind and rain after the hotel was denied a smoking shelter.

Too fat for New ZealandThinking of emigrating to the other side of the globe? If you're overweight, then think again. Richie Trezise, 35, a rugby-playing Welshman, was originally told he had to loose weight after being rejected as he was a "burden on the health care system."