Master of the Manhunt
Sixteen months ago Charles Moose found himself one of the world's highest profile police officers in the world, leading the largest manhunt in American history: the investigation into the Washington sniper attacks. 13 people were shot and ten died in those three weeks in October.
Features: Cheap and cheerful
"Does one have an air of sophistication?" David Dickinson asks, as he wobbles precariously along the cobbles of Radcliffe Square on a smart green bicycle. "I'd look like a right arse if I fell off this," he mutters under his breath, scholar's gown billowing behind him and mortar board askew.
Features: Morecombe Bay
At around 3pm on February 5th at least 35 cockle pickers, believed to be Chinese, were armed with waders, rakes and a dinghy, and sent out onto Morecambe Bay. By 1am, 20 would have drowned and 15 had a lucky escape.
Features: You can find me in da club...
Fifth-week blues getting you down? Feeling cramped in your room, piled high with stacks of unread texts? Sick of the going to the college bar for a pint cheek-by-jowl with hefty rugger buggers? Do you long for palatial comfort and gourmet cuisine in elegant surroundings?
Features: Dust settles on whitewash
In the end, it was never likely to end the debate. The dust appears to have settled - for now at least - on the Hutton report, yet public opinion regarding the Iraq war remains as polarised and as passionate as ever. For the Government, Hutton was a vindication - conclusive proof, via one of the finest legal minds the country has to offer, that it acted in complete good faith prior to last year's invasion. For opponents of the war, the report was a whitewash - a nail in the coffin of press freedom, delivered by a traditionalist, "third-rate law lord" (to quote Darcus Howe), out of touch with the way politics and the media work in this day and age. ...
Features: Chuckle on this
There are few things in life that have the capacity to make me spontaneously piss in my pants. One is a swift kick to the kidneys; the other, slightly more entertaining one, is meeting icons from my childhood. It is into the second of these categories that the Chuckle Brothers fall.
Features: A church for all sexualities
Displayed in the window of St Columba's United Reformed Church off the High Street is the sign which reads: 'Praying to be an inclusive church'.
Features: .com Coupling
The ambience was right, the setting perfect. My date and I were sitting side-by-side on the rooftop of a classy London bar. Strains of jazz filled the air, its notes wafting in the cool evening breeze. As if on cue to the music, 'James' (all names have been changed to protect the guilty) took another swig of Stella Artois. He was rip-roaringly drunk....
