Mind The Gap

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For over a decade Arthur Mankton has maintained that when he was at school there was a fellow student named Roy G. Biv. It was, he says, because of the letters of his name that Mr Mankton was able to remember the names and order of the colours of the rainbow.
Recently it has come to [...]

Shock new R&B artist not singing about getting freaky

Federal government MP James McAvery said he felt misled the political lobby group Free Tibet, were interested in autonomy for their nation and not a group offering all-expenses trips to Asia.
Figures out this week show that one in four federal MPs have accepted free overseas travel worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign governments, [...]

A fight has erupted between different religious and race groups over the naming of the Easter favourite ‘Hot Cross Buns’.
Christian groups have been battling with large chain Supermarkets who have chosen the more secular ‘Easter Bun’ in naming their baked goods over the traditional ‘Hot Cross Bun’. A spokesperson for Woolworths stated that ‘we wanted [...]

Resident of Paddington Gavin Barclay, was involved in an altercation with neighbour Tom Deloney, earlier this week.
The fight erupted after a series of noise complaints resulted in a confrontation at the front of Mr Deloney’s house. In the ensuing fracas Mr Barclay was punched in the face.
Psychologist Sandra Marshall says this display of aggression is [...]

Madrid, Spain. Over 15 000 people join in the annual Run for Your Life event.
The fun run, which has been steadily rising in popularity each year, broke all records in terms of participation, arrests and hospital admissions.
Event organizer Manuela Sanchez stated that both crowds and police made an effort to be at the [...]

Chris Martin, the mellow frontman of UK pop band ‘Coldplay’ has broken up with his long-time companion Gwyneth Paltrow. The couple had been together for 5 years.
Paltrow is well-known for many films in which she plays the ‘ice queen’ love interest with one critic describing her as having “the consistent expression of a lemon tart.” [...]

The Pontiff Benedict XI has officially described World Youth Day 2008 and the people of Sydney as extraordinary, as he pronounces it ‘ex-tra-or-di-nary’.
Pope Benedict stated, that it was “great to see the ‘face of youth’ not being represented by Miranda Kerr, for once”.
Sydney has enjoyed 3 weeks of hosting young people from all over the [...]

Addressing a conference yesterday, Premier Nathan Rees made a rather strange and clumsy comment on the status of traffic congestion in Sydney.
“It’s like being in love. If you think you are in love, you are in love. If you think you are in traffic, you are in traffic.”
Reaction ranged from baffled silence to nervous laughter. [...]