April, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Pineapple windfall for Australia’s homeless

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MORE than 800,000 cans of pineapple weighing 1.1 million kilos, filling 50 semitrailers and valued at $3 million are bound for Australia’s homeless community thanks to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. The watchdog has […] […]

Boy shot in head in hunting accident

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A TEENAGE boy has been shot in the head during a hunting accident in northern NSW. Emergency service workers went to the Garrawilla State Forest, halfway between Coonabarabran and Gunnedah, after hearing a 15-year-old boy […] […]

How to be film-star flawless

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Trigger happy: Bella Blissett is sprayed with tiny particles of silicone-based foundation by a compressor gun The tough news is that your summer make-up has to bring new meaning to the word “flawless”. The good […] […]

Give your skin a buzz

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By Alice Hart-Davis Coming soon: e-pulse is already available in the US in RoC’s Brilliance line and will arrive in the UK, with a different name, in the autumn One reason I love this job […] […]

Banning mephedrone: The danger of drug laws

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Dr Christian Jessen [Right] My own parents now sound like seasoned drug users, the way they talk about M-cat, plant food and meow meow. Not because they are, I should add, but because the papers […] […]

Is breakfast cereal making you fat?

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Dr Christian Jessen [right] I read an awful lot of rubbish about health. Magazines are full of tips: how carbs should never be eaten after 7pm, how you must drink two litres of water a […] […]

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?

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It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail. They are putting […] […]

Police to publish Blair Peach report

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Scotland Yard is preparing to publish a report into the death of the anti-racism activist Blair Peach, who was killed more than 30 years ago. Prosecutors have completed a review of the document and passed […] […]

Video released as meteorite smashes into beach

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Sun Apr 25 2010 05:25:02 An unidentified object, believed to be a fragment of a meteorite, has landed on an Israeli beach near the central city of Tel Aviv. The Israeli police released mobile phone […] […]

Shopping with guns

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NEW BERLIN, Wis. – There’s some bother near the broccoli. Anxiety spilled on aisle four. But the concern is not from customers, who seem fairly oblivious to two armed people moving through their supermarket on […] […]