The NHS are paying people to lose weight, and at the same time they’re opening fast food “restaurants” in their hospitals, the Daily Mail reports.
Overweight people could be paid up to £425 to lose weight under the plans, which are currently being piloted at the Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust. Around 400 patients and nurses are taking part in the scheme.
But the scheme is at odds with hospitals allowing junk food outlets to …

Hundreds of London Underground workers are to be balloted for strikes in a series of rows over new rosters, agreements and the use of outside contractors, the Independent reports.
The Rail Maritime and Transport union accused London Underground of ripping up agreements, “bulldozing through” shift patterns and of threatening job security through increased use of outside contractors, affecting staff such as maintenance workers.

American extreme left-wing film director Oliver Stone said that nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler is an “easy scapegoat”, and that he empathises with Soviet dictator and mass murderer of tens of millions, Joseph Stalin.
What makes a person so narrow-minded, senseless and, in fact, a blithering idiot, is beyond me, and probably beyond any reasonable person. But unfortunately there are hundreds of thousands of imbeciles around the world who actually agree with Stone’s recent statements and …

An African immigrant carried out a knifepoint mugging in the hope he would be sent back to his war-torn African homeland because he hated life in Britain, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Kasiba Misigaro, 21, who was living off benefits, believed he would have a better life back in Burundi, one of the ten poorest countries in the world.
He asked the immigration services to send him home but they did nothing, so he pulled a knife on …

An American United Airlines pilot today admitted turning up to fly out of Heathrow Airport while over the alcohol limit, the Daily Mail reports.
Erwin Washington, 51, of Lakewood, Colorado, had been due to captain a Boeing 767 bound for Chicago with 124 passengers and 11 crew members on board when a colleague smelled alcohol on his breath.
He pleaded guilty at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court to being above the alcohol limit for flying a plane.
The pilot was …

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will promise today in his New Year message that the year 2010 will herald a decade a prosperity and ambition for the British public, and he will also attack those “who say we must plan for a decade of austerity and unfairness where the majority lose out while the privileged few protect themselves”.
In an upbeat assessment of the economic prospects for the coming year, Brown will reject Conservative warnings of a “decade …

A failed asylum seeker who left a 12-year-old girl to die in a road traffic accident has won the right to remain in this country, outraging her family and stunning officials from the UK Border Agency, The Times reports.
Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, 32, was banned from driving and had run out of appeals against deportation when he fled the scene of the accident as Amy Houston lay dying under the wheels of his black Rover car.
The …

Thousands of foreign criminals are being offered credit cards pre-loaded with more than £450 of taxpayers’ cash if they agree to return home,the Daily Mail reports.
Rapists, muggers and burglars are being offered the astonishing perk as part of a package worth up to £5,000 designed to bribe them to leave the UK. The credit cards are loaded with money which the convicts can spend as soon as they leave British soil.
The remainder of the windfall …

Staff in a Russian circus neglected eight Bengal tigers and a lioness during their transportation in freezing Siberia, the rare animals died.
The animals were in a container on board a Kamaz truck travelling from Khabarovsk to Yakutsk and were completely neglected by the circus staff who accompanied them on the trip, RIA Novosti reports.
“The exotic animals were kept in a container without air-conditioning or heating. The lioness and tigers had inhaled exhaust fumes and froze …

The last Indochinese tiger in China was killed and eaten by a man who was yesterday sentenced to 12 years’ jail, the Daily Mail reports.
Kang Wannian, a villager from Mengla, Yunnan Province, came across the tiger in February while gathering freshwater clams in a nature reserve near China’s border with Laos. He claimed to have killed it in self-defence.
The only known wild Indochinese tiger in China has not been seen since Kang’s meal.
A local court …

An Anglican reverend advised poor people who are desperate for cash to go forth and shoplift from major stores, the Daily Mail reports.
The Rev Tim Jones said in his Sunday sermon that stealing from successful shops was preferable to burglary, robbery or prostitution.
He told parishioners that it would not break the eighth commandment “thou shalt not steal” because it “is permissible for those who are in desperate situations to take food that they might not …

A police detective in US capital Washington was snapped pulling a gun during a snowball fight, The Sun reports.
The off-duty officer drew the weapon after his car was pelted with snowballs during the friendly battle. He was later filmed admitting the over-zealous action, saying: “I did it because I got hit with snowballs.”
After the uniformed police arrived on the scene, the detective – who identified himself as Detective Baylor – calmed down.
Washington police are …

Spanish region of Catalonia is set to become the first comunidad in the country to ban the best entertainment Spain can offer – bullfighting.
The area’s regional Parliament today took a major step towards outlawing the tradition by voting 67 to 59 (with five abstentions) to draw up a law calling for fighting bulls to be protected in the same way as other animals, the Daily Mail reports.
The proposal, which will be voted on in April, …

26-year-old Masahiro Kanagawa killed two strangers and stabbed seven other people just in order to get death penalty – his form of “suicide”.
Kanagawa was sentenced to death by hanging today in the city of Mito for his crimes. In interviews, he explained that he was weary of life, wished to commit suicide and carried out the murders in order to bring about his own execution, The Times reports.
“This whole case itself is a process of …

Just a quick note for all “global warming” and “climate change” preachers of the UK and the world: average low temperature in London on 18th December is five degrees Celsius (5°C).
The average low temperature in London in December is four degrees Celsius (4°C).
Today, on 18th December, 2009, the temperature is -1°C. It’s cold, it’s bloody snowing and I’m not happy.
So, Al Gore, Gordon Brown and their dedicated disciples, you want to talk about “global warming”? …

Prince Charles and Prime Minister Gordon Brown were accused last night of “green hypocrisy” after jetting into Copenhagen to lecture the world about “global warming” in two separate private airplanes.
Charles used the £1,019-an-hour Queen’s Flight so he could deliver a keynote speech to the climate change conference, flying back after less than three hours.