• Jun
  • 24

800,000 on ’sicknote’ benefits for more than 10 years

Nearly a third of people claiming ’sicknote’ benefits have been doing so for more than a decade, new figures showed yesterday. More than 800,000 people have been paid Incapacity Benefit or similar state handouts for illness for more than ten years. They make up over 30 per cent of the 2.64 million people who live on the state sick note payment

'Despite all the grandiose promises and the billions of pounds that have been spent, they have delivered virtually no improvement for the most vulnerable in our society.' Numbers claiming sickness benefits exploded in the 1980s when old…

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  • Jun
  • 23

George Carlin Has Died

Goodbye George

ET breaks the news that comedian George Carlin has died from heart failure. The man who made famous the “seven words you can never say on television” passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint John's Hospital in Santa Monica, his…

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  • Jun
  • 16

Bionic Spine Gives Chris Evans’s dog A Pain-Free Future

When vets told Chris Evans his beloved dog should be ‘written off’ after losing the feeling in its hind legs, the radio DJ refused to give up hope.Enzo the German Shepherd had two herniated discs in his spine, leaving him paralysed and in pain.His 42-year-old owner made sure he received the latest treatment - and now Enzo has a bionic spine.

He is having four physiotherapy and hydrotherapy sessions a day to build up the muscles in his hind legs. Mr Fitzpatrick said: 'Chris's dog is a very difficult case and we may not be successful. He has a particularly bad form of spinal…

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  • Jun
  • 12

The 5 Most Ridiculous SkyMall Products Money Can Buy

Theres no shortage of products out there for the discerning consumer? and then theres all THIS crap

WHY YOU NEED IT: You have an “offbeat” sense of humor, and there is no better way of showing it off than by purchasing a signed picture of Larry Thomas (aka “The Soup Nazi”) to hang in your office….

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  • Jun
  • 07

Is This A Good Idea?

Would you admit that you banged Lindsay Lohan once in a bathroom at the risk of being number 1,xxxx on her list, possibly having an STD from her, and risking never getting laid again once people find out you are damaged goods? And would admit to being Bobby Browns son?

Posted by Scandalous Candice on June 06, 2008 at 07:33 PM in Attention Whore, Awkward, Blowhan, Bullshit, Celebrity Spawns, Celebutards, Cheap, Did They Or Didn't They, Dirty, Disgusting, Gossip, Gross, Lindsay Lohan, Nasty, Pathetic,…

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  • May
  • 27

Jumbo jet splits in two as it tries to take-off

The accident happened as the cargo plane tried to take off at Brussels’ Zaventem airport.

“We see from the tracks on the runway that the pilot tried to stop the aircraft because he understood he could not bring it up into the air, and he drove it off the runway.”

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  • May
  • 09

San Diego State: Hard Drug Trafficking 101

Frat boys busted dealing coke? Shocking, especially when you take a look at San Diego State's majors! Starla reports from SoCal.

Frat boys, at least in my experience, are very rarely able to think for themselves. Kind of like Marines. I liken them to sheep. Have you ever heard what happens on fraternity “hell nights” (usually involves a goat, a piece…

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  • May
  • 08

Couple on run with 100 dogs in tow

A couple found guilty of animal cruelty are on the run from authorities with up to 100 dogs in a trailer, the RSPCA says.
Communities between South Australia and Victoria were urged to be on the look-out for two people pulling a trailer carrying a large number of dogs.

The charges related to about 170 dogs seized after RSPCA raids on properties at Swan Reach, east of Adelaide, and Eudunda, north of the city, in 2006 and 2007.

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  • May
  • 04

The pictures that cost this teacher her job [Pics]

Tiffany Shepherd, a Biology high school teacher was fired from her job last week after school administration learned that she was also working part time as a bikini girl on charter fishing boats. Do you believe A) Teachers shouldn't have sexy bikini pics of theirs online, or B) Teachers are people too. They shouldn't have fired her.

Roger Clemens had an affair with Paulette Dean Daly, wife of Pro Golf player John Daly. If you could choose who to be in this story you'd choose:

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  • Mar
  • 01

Blindfolded Kickboxing in Thailand

I keep watching in suspense to see if they devastate the referee.

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