Stiletto wearing Brit woman gets #18,000 damages after tripping in pub!

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit primary school has banned its students form wearing coloured wristbands, after parents found out that they were called "shagbands". Parents of kids, attending Rayne Primary School near Braintree, Essex, discovered that each colour of the 'shagband' represents a different sex act.

August 25th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit Mayor, accused of breaking into women's homes and wearing their undies, has resigned from his post. Bachelor Ian Stafford, 58, who had been elected Mayor of Preesall and Knott End, Lancs, four years ago, resigned as a councillor immediately after his arrest on August 24, with charges of three counts of burglary.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Brit men have been banned from wearing an itsy-bitsy Speedo-style swimwear to one of UK's best-known theme parks, as the clothing are not suitable for a "family-friendly" destination.lton Towers banned the figure-hugging trunks, and ordered customers to switch to more "protective" shorts, after bosses decided that the sight of men threatening to reveal all in too-tight briefs is one thrill visitors can do without. "After high temperatures over the summer, team members at the Alton Towers Resort have noticed that a number of men visiting the water park have been wearing tight swimming attire more suited to Spain than Staffordshire," the Daily Express quoted the company as saying.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Police in Leicestershire have revealed that street beggars in Britain are making 200 pounds a night, the equivalent of a 73,000 pounds-a-year salary tax-free. Officers discovered that a number of 'professional' beggars used the money to supplement income from their normal day jobs, and, last month, they arrested 20 beggars from the streets of Leicester, who were not homeless.

July 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Brit woman was left badly burnt after she had bleach poured on her by youngsters she had asked to be quiet during a screening of the new Harry Potter film. The 46-year-old mother-of-two was with her husband and children at the Vue cinema in Kirkstall Road, Leeds on July 26 watching the screening of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A court recently ordered a Japanese businessman to publicly apologise to one of the woman employee he had wrongly accused of stealing his trousers in Wuhan, Hubei province.. The businessman has also been ordered to pay "spiritual damages" to the tune of 1,000 yuan to the woman.

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 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Computer-users need to be more careful -- the number of severe injuries associated with computers is on the rise, according to a recent study. Researchers have found a seven-fold increase in computer-related injuries.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - A British woman minister who once posed for a magazine photo shoot in a provocative pose wearing a short red dress has quit, complaining the prime minister treated women as female window dressing". "You have a two-tier government, your inner circle and then the remainder of cabinet," Europe Minister Caroline Flint said in a letter to British premier Gordon Brown, hours after he ignored her for promotion Friday.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - A businessman is suing a strip club after he received injuries to his face from a kick a stiletto-wearing dancer gave him. Michael Ireland, 35, said that he was struck "suddenly and without warning" while watching the strip show, and had to be hospitalised after stripper Sakeena "Suki" Shageer's kick left him with eye injuries and a broken nose.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit couple took their love for the film 'Shrek' to a different level all together, when they married donning costumes of the green ogre and Princess Fiona. Groom Keith, 44, and bride Christine, 40, of Barnstaple, Devon, expressed their love for the flick by covering themselves in green paint and wearing full costumes, while walking down the aisle.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - Jenson Button shared steamy minutes with his lingerie model-girlfriend after winning the Australian Grand Prix. The Brit racer rushed to his private room with lover Jessica Michibata after his Formula One victory in Melbourne.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Brit girl group Girls Aloud celebrated the release of their 21st single, wearing sexy PVC and leather. Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, all posed for the photo shoot in the sexy clothes to mark the launch of their single 'Untouchable'.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A Norwich woman claimed that she had a terrifying close encounter with an alien while walking her dog, according to newly released Ministry of Defence (MoD) documents. The anonymous woman telephoned RAF Wattisham in Suffolk in a state of distress and said that she was approached by an extra-terrestrial with a "Scandinavian-type accent" in a light brown flying suit, reports the Daily Star.

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.