Category: General Ramblings
Merry Christmas!
A big Merry Christmas from us all at Singles365.com. We hope you have a fantastic few days with plenty of great food, several drinks and lots of brilliant presents!
BONG, Big Ben Missing from News at Ten
Tune into News at Ten tonight and there will be a familiar, famous face missing from your screen. Newsreaders Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham will still be there but the clock face of London’s “Big Ben” will be missing. The title sequence of the programme will still include the familiar sound of “the bongs”, and a [...]
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Two More British World Champions
We’re feeling compelled, this morning, to send out our congratulations to Jenson Button and Beth Tweddle after Britain gained another two world champions in the weekend’s sporting events.
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Chas, But No More Dave
Legendary “Rockney” duo Chas & Dave are to go their separate ways after more than 35 years performing together. The announcement comes as bassist Dave (real name David Peacock) retires from the music business following the death of his wife in July after a battle with cancer. The band’s manager said “Without her presence Dave [...]
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How to Win the Bulgarian Lottery
It seems that Derren Brown’s lottery stunt had been trumped even before it was performed. On the same day as his “prediction” of the British National Lottery result, organisers of the Bulgarian lottery were forced to launch an investigation into their draw procedures when the same six balls were drawn for the second time in [...]
National “Ridiculous National Day” Day
Well, after Wednesday’s revelation that there was a National Gutter Day (no, we weren’t making it up, it marks the end of Ipswich Borough Council’s National Maintenance Week!) we wondered what other “National Days” were lurking in the diaries and calendars of the world’s PR agencies. It didn’t take long before we realised that you [...]
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Eddie Iz Running for Sport Relief
Eddie Izzard is due to reach the end of of a gruelling 1,100 mile run this afternoon as he completes his 43rd marathon in seven weeks. After just a month of training, the 47 year-old stand-up/actor began his journey in Trafalgar Square on July 26th and has since toured all four home nations in aid of [...]
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How to Win the Lottery – Explained?
We were fools to have believed that Derren Brown was actually going to tell us how his lottery prediction trick worked, but that didn’t stop 4.4 million of us from tuning in to Channel 4 of Friday night, twice as many as saw the trick itself on Wednesday.
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