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Thursday, October 9, 2008


The atlas features 154 maps and 800 images, over 576 pages

It is the ultimate guide to the world. But, at a weighty 30kg (65lb), this book of maps will need its own suitcase – and send most travellers looking for the excess baggage counter.
Earth – officially the world's biggest atlas – takes up a third of a square metre when closed, and features 154 maps and 800 images, over 576 pages.

It also has descriptions of every country's geography, history and culture
The gigantic tome took more than 20 years to compile and is described by its creator, Gordon Cheers, as 'a time capsule of where we are in the world today'.
With internet and digital mapping, it is being touted as the last of the great atlases to be produced.
Only 3,000 copies of the leather-bound work have been printed and each will cost £2,000 to buy.
Alan Smith, of publisher Global Mapping, said: 'The physical size of the atlas is amazing. The content, including the maps, text and images, is more detailed than any other atlas ever produced

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sarah Ayton and Nick Dempsey tie the knot

Gold medal-winning sailor, Sarah Ayton, married her long-term partner on Thursday – seven years after the couple put off wedding plans to train for two Olympic Games.
The 28-year-old was part of the so-called Three Blondes In A Boat team which took gold in the Yngling class at the Beijing Olympics in August.
Sarah and husband Nick Dempsey, an Olympic windsurfer, got engaged in 2001 but put their marriage plans on hold for the 2004 Athens Games and this year's competition

'We decided we had to set a date this year or it wouldn't happen for another four years,' said Sarah.
Her winning crew mates, Pippa Wilson and Sarah Webb, were at the service at Holy Trinity Church in Fleet, near Weymouth, Dorset

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Thursday, October 9, 2008



Ramma Damma, aka Ulli Hopper, decided to get married – to a pineapple
As celebrity weddings go, it's one of the wackiest (and, er, sweetest) you're ever likely to see.
German pop star Ramma Damma, aka Ulli Hopper, decided to get married – to a pineapple.
Picking up his bride for about £8 – he wanted one who wasn't cheap – he drove her across the Scottish border to Gretna Green in a Jaguar covered in green AstroTurf
There he and the pineapple – which he affectionately named Tippi – were wed before returning to his home in Munich.
'We drove through the night – it was a fun away wedding, not a runaway wedding,' he said.
'I loved her. I wanted to marry her. We stayed in Gretna Green Hall Hotel and we were married by a craftsman wearing a kilt.
'We enjoyed meals out. We would go to restaurants and she would enjoy a glass of water over dinner.
'Tippi loved to go to the movies – especially ones about earthquakes – and she would sit on my lap when she got scared.'
Now in case you were wondering why you've never heard of Hopper, this all happened 38 years ago.
But although Tippi has long since departed, the union has borne fruit.
Today, Hopper is known as the Green Rebel in Munich, where he runs the only 'plant sanctuary' in Germany, accommodating 300 indoor plants.
The 65-year-old is almost completely self-sufficient, even making his own stinging nettle spaghetti or brewing plum cider in a 230-litre bin.
'I will defend every plant,' he said. 'They are the wonders of our world – we just to need to listen to them

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Thursday, October 9, 2008



Alan Melhuish spent half an hour reeling in the 102kg (16st) giant
It sounds like a fisherman's tale but an angler has landed one of Europe's biggest catfish.
Alan Melhuish spent half an hour reeling in the 102kg (16st) giant on the River Ebro near Barcelona.
The 61-year-old was nearing the end of a week-long fishing trip when the 2.4m (8ft) long fish took his line 'and raced 40m up river'

Mr Melhuish, from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, said: 'It fought like a bull. I had to use all my strength to stop myself from being pulled into the river.'

The biggest freshwater fish ever caught in Europe was a catfish in Italy that weighed 110kg (17st

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By JESSICA SATHERLEY - Thursday, October 9, 2008
Metro has carefully chosen the best and worst dressed celebs this week to find out who has hit the fashion jack-pot and who has missed.
HOT
The High School Musical premiere took London by storm this week and when the film's lead character, Vanessa Hudgens, stepped out onto the red carpet she looked phenomenal in a rock chick chic ensemble.

Vanessa Hudgens wows fans with her cute rock chick chic outfit

The 19-year-old beauty showed off her tanned figure in a black polka dotted ruffled lace hem Simone mini dress.
To shelter herself from a cold London evening, the star covered up with a black grained leather Catherine Malandrino jacket.
No outfit would be complete without accessorizing and Hudgens paired up her black dress with towering pointy pumps laced with double ankle straps which accentuated her shapely pins.
To add some extra pizzazz to her rocking look, the raven haired senorita draped her fingers with chunky rings, her arm with silver bracelets and her lobes with sparking earrings which scream 'I'm a star'.
No wonder Vanessa is adored by millions with her fresh but sultry look, without looking too overdone, she manages to look cute and ---- at the same time – a perfect combination for a young actress.
NOT

Christina Aguilera looks like she forgot to look in the mirror before leaving the house this week

It wasn't so long ago that Christina Aguilera was also a fresh faced teen like Vanessa, but the 'Dirrty' singer seems to have lost her style status and has turned into a fashion disaster.
Christina seems to have traded places with her rival Britney Spears in the fashion stakes, as Britney makes a remarkable comeback, Aguilera was caught out with unflattering checkered tights that look like one of Britney's old outfits - circa her head shaving days.
The mother of one has tried to match a grey knit hat with the outfit but then throws caution to the wind by flinging a hot pink handbag over her shoulder

Is the blonde star's oversized black jumper trying to disguise some added weight? Or is she just in a frumpy sort of mood?
Whatever her reason is, there is no excuse for those checkered skin tights trousers

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Thursday, October 9, 2008
A mouse thrown into a deadly viper's cage as a snack for the snake turned the tables – attacking and killing the serpent.


The mouse totally flips out on the snake

The mouse was put into the cage by firefighters in Nantoun, Taiwan, after they'd removed the snake from a home in the area. Thinking the viper was probably hungry, the decided to feed the mouse to it.
But the mouse had other ideas.
One firefighter described the scene: 'It attacked the snake continuously, biting and scratching it

The life-and-death battle lasted for half an hour before the mouse emerged triumphant, and the snake emerged dead.
Lan Sengqiu, the firefighter's team leader, speculated: 'Perhaps it used up all its venom when we caught it - but the mouse barely had a scratch on him

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Thursday, October 9, 2008

A Welsh school has banned children from eating Marmite because it contains too much salt.
The yeast extract spread, famous for its slogan "Love it or hate it", has been yanked from Pontrhydfendigaid primary school's breakfast club menu.
Parents have criticised the decision saying anything that encourages children to eat breakfast is a good thing.
They said it was unfair that it had been ditched but that sugary jams and marmalades were still on the menu.
School bosses are sticking by their decision.
A spokesman said it was dropped from the menu because of the high salt content and that the food served at school breakfast clubs are based on Welsh Assembly Government guidelines - and Marmite is not included.
He added that was also not served at breakfast clubs

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Thursday, October 9, 2008


Clara Meadmore, 105, has revealed the secret of her longevity - remaining a virgin

Britain's oldest virgin who celebrates her 105th birthday this weekend has revealed the secret of her longevity - 'no ---'.
Proud Clara Meadmore has never had --- in her life because she has always been "too busy" for intimate relationships and it seemed like "a lot of hassle".
Clara knew she would remain single from the age of twelve and abstained as a young woman to concentrate on earning a living.
Retired secretary Clara said --- meant marriage during her youth in the 1920s and 1930s and she just didn't buy into it

Clara, of Truro, Cornwall, is proud of the fact she remained a virgin.
She said: "People have asked whether I am a homo.se*ual and the answer is no. I have just never been interested in or fancied having ---.
"I imagine there is a lot of hassle involved and I have always been busy doing other things.

"I've never had a boyfriend - I've never been bothered about relationships. When I was a girl you only had --- with your husband and I never married.
"I've always had lots of platonic friendships with men but never felt the need to go further than that or marry.
"I made my mind up at the age of 12 never to marry and I've not gone back on that."
Despite "several" offers of marriage she turned them all down.
Clara said: "I grew up in an era where little girls were to be seen and not heard so I had to learn to stand up for myself and earn my own living.
"Some men don't like that in a woman and before long I was too old to marry anyway."
Instead of boyfriends Clara took up hobbies which she still enjoys including reading, gardening, walking, cooking and listening to Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
Clara will celebrate her 105th birthday this weekend at a party with friends

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by ANDREI HARMSWORTH - Friday, October 10, 2008

Polished Britney returns after here hellish year in 2007 (right)

Britney Spears has spoken for the first time about her umbrella-wielding, head-shaving meltdown asking, 'What the hell was I thinking?'
The comeback queen speaks for the first time in an upcoming 90-minute documentary in which she admits she suffers from ongoing loneliness.
'I sit there and I look back and I'm like, "I'm a smart person. What the hell was I thinking

Holding back tears in the trailer for the show, the 26-year-old says: 'I've been through a lot in the past two or three years, and there's a lot that people don't know.'
'Sometimes I think I get kind of lonely because you don't open the gate up that much, you know I mean?' she said.
In the MTV interview set to air on November 30, just 48 hours before the release of her new album Circus, the mum-of-two says at times she doesn't know how to deal with the attention on her.

Britney chokes up as she speaks on new documentary

'You're guarded. You have to be that way, so I'm kind of stuck in this place and it's like: How do you deal? And you just cope, and that's what I do. I just cope with it, every day.'
The documentary will feature behind-the-scenes footage of the 'Womanizer' hit-maker, with some of the shots said to be filmed on her recent visit to New York.
Britney: For The Record will also feature footage of the singer talking about the last two years, which have seen her deal with divorce, lose custody of her two baby boys and a battle with substance abuse

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Friday, October 10, 2008

A British woman and her 14-year-old daughter have drowned after being swept downstream by a river swollen by floods.
The ministry says the two bodies were found early Friday in a ravine around 50km (30 miles) inland from the eastern coastal city of Valencia.
Police did not immediately provide the names of the 47-year-old woman or her teenage daughter.
Two other women were in the group that tried to cross the River Clariano by foot Thursday but were swept away by the current.
The two other women managed to get out of the river and alert police.
The Valencia region has experienced heavy rains in recent days