By Dean Gate
Here at Natter Towers we are inundated with press releases that range from useful and interesting to downright tedious and plain bizarre.
Take the Gun Store in Las Vegas, for instance, which is offering a bachelorette party – hen party to you and me – with a difference.
The Gun Store offers a shooting...
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TV REVIEW: Strictly Come Dancing, BBC1
Is there anyone left in the world who still finds Bruce Forsyth funny? Clearly, the commissioning editors of Strictly must roar with laughter at his creaky bon mots, or else why would they insist on wheeling him out, year after year, and presenting him to the viewing public, like...
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I’m 45 now and, when I go away, I’ve started taking my own food with me. It started with bags of nuts but has now extended to porridge. This worrying sign of ageing has pushed me into trying new things that help me feel young again. My purple boots...
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TV review: Celebrity Big Brother, Channel 5
Criticising Big Brother is like shooting fish in a barrel. It’s easy to pour scorn, complain that it glorifies stupidity, and wail about the fact that it’s still clogging up the schedules, over a decade after its celebrated inception. So bear with me a moment while I cock...
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Simon Buckley: The Demon Headmaster has had his day
Much has been made by David Cameron and the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, of the need to restore discipline in schools in the wake of the riots. Their simplistic view is that if teachers had more power to exert proper authority in the classroom then all the social ills that we witnessed on the...
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