A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.
A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.
A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.
News Round Up
by Patrick O'Connor
HERE'S a novel idea – give pigeons a contraceptive pill!
The Daily Star reports that Jake Shropshire, a councillor in Ware, Hertfordshire, came up with the idea because of a worry that the growing number of birds is driving away shoppers and tourists from the town.
News Round Up
by Patrick O'Connor
FANCY that !
The Sun tells us that 23 year old Adam Thurkettle is banned from the Nutshell, said to be Britain's smallest pub at 15ft by 7ft – because he takes up too much room.
News Round Up
by Patrick O'Connor
LIZZY, a seven year old Corgi dog has been sacked from a West End play for refusing to obey the Queen!
The Daily Telegraph reports that the dog was appearing in the play The Audience in which Helen Mirren plays the Queen.
HP sauce is probably the best known brand of brown sauce in the UK. Indeed I read recently that at one stage it cornered over 70% of the retail brown sauce market. It is used as a condiment with hot or cold savoury food and when I was growing up, it was always splattered liberally over Irish stew. So if you pop into most British kitchens you will find a bottle somewhere, but one man has found a new – and criminal- use for the sauce.