Brown faces prospect of being first e-mail dumped Brit PM

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit couple has decided to start celebrating Christmas 82 days before December 25. Gladys, 67, and Leslie Maw, 80, have already put up their decorations, despite the festive season being months away.

September 27th, 2009 LONDON - A recent poll has suggested that British voters think Tory leader David Cameron would make a better Prime Minister than Gordon Brown. According to the ICM survey for the News of the World, some 43 per cent voters said that Cameron was the best choice, while just 20 per cent believe that Brown is the best man for the job out of the current three main party leaders.

August 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Almost six years after Neelma Singh, 24, her brother Kunal, 18, and sister Sidhi, 12, were allegedly murdered in their home in Bridgeman Downs, a Brisbane Court was informed today that the boy was still alive when he was dumped in a steaming spa bath. Pathologist Dr Alex Olumbe was giving evidence this morning at the hearing for Massimo "Max" Sica, 38, who is charged with killing his former girlfriend Neelma, her brother and younger sister in April 2003.

August 14th, 2009 LONDON - A Britisher, who was a victim of last year's Mumbai terror attacks, faces the prospect of paying three million pounds in medical expenses. According to The Telegraph, 29-year-old Will Pike, who suffered a spinal cord injury and is now confined to a wheel chair, after jumping 50 feet from the third floor of the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, says that most policyholders do not hold top-grade cover, including chronic-condition cover.

July 30th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit Indian newsagent, Mukund Patel, has charged the Barclays Bank of fleecing him of over seven thousand pounds. Seventy-two-year-old Patel claimed that only did the bank take away his money, but it also told him to get a loan to cover the overdraft.ccording to The Sun, Patel paid in a 73.34-pound cheque at Barclays for his gas bill, but the bank debited 7,334 pounds - 100 times the amount - from his account.

July 17th, 2009 LONDON - Brit Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been revealed to have spent 4.6million pounds flying round the world in private chartered aircraft over the last year at taxpayers' expense. Turns out the travel fare is double the 2.3million pounds bill that Tony Blair ran up in his final year in Downing Street, reports the Daily Express.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit woman is said to have received a postcard from a Greek Island 22-years after it was sent. Wendy Bosworth, 64, a retired bookkeeper, from Wolverhampton, was surprised when the card, slightly damaged and in a sealed bag, dropped on her mat in Blackburn Avenue, Claregate.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - Caroline Flint, who resigned as Britain's Europe Minister, has accused Prime Minister Gordon Brown of using his women ministers as mere 'female window dressings.' "Several of the women attending Cabinet, myself included, have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing," Flint wrote in her resignation letter. "I am not willing to attend Cabinet in a peripheral capacity any longer," The Daily Express quoted Flint, as saying.

April 15th, 2009 LONDON - Four former Labour ministers have blamed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for allowing former aide Damian McBride to draw up plans to smear senior Conservatives. According to The Independent, the ministers suggested that McBride was carrying out Brown's wishes rather than acting as a freelance operator.

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - Britain could soon witness a historic change in the rules of succession to the throne, including giving royal women an equal right to access the throne. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown held an important meeting with Buckingham Palace in this regard.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Brit MP Nigel Griffiths, who had cheated on his wife by romping in the Commons on Remembrance Day, will be facing a probe by Westminster's watchdog. Emails complaining about the Edinburgh South MP's conduct have been received by Standards Commissioner John Lyon's office, reports The Sun.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actress Kate Bosworth is said to have dumped her musician boyfriend James Rousseau. The 'Superman Returns' star, who began dating Rousseau after they met at a fashion party in September 2006, reportedly parted ways following fights over their work schedules.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the most boring public speaker in the UK, says a survey of 1,000 adults. The Brit leader has pipped footballer David Beckham into second place to land the first spot, reports The Scotsman.

March 10th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Rihanna'S lover Chris Brown will pay her more than seven million pounds if he is found guilty of the assault charge against him for making criminal threats to her after a fight. Brown, 19, is also said to have agreed to the deal as part of what his management team called 'Project Mea Culpa' in an attempt to save his career, reports thesun.co.uk.

January 20th, 2009 LONDON - New British singing sensation Leona Lewis has been snubbed by the Brit Awards. 'It's a complete travesty, Lewis has been overlooked in her own country.