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007 meets his latest Bond girl
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
What's in your box lady in red?
The name's Blonde: Accompanied by a Royal Navy escort, a model delivers a case containing the first copies of Sebastian Faulks' new James Bond novel, Devil May Care, on the Thames.
Such is the clamour for the new book on sale today that Amazon.co.uk said it has already shot to the top of its charts, its biggest fiction pre-order of 2008.
Sebastian Faulks was selected to write the novel by Fleming's estate, and read all the original stories in an attempt to capture the author's style.
Tuuli Shipster, the model featured on the front cover, helped deliver the first seven copies of Devil May Care to Waterstone's Piccadilly in London.
- The first handful of copies went from the printers under military escort care of the Royal Navy.
The model accompanied the case as it was brought down the Thames by a Royal Navy Pacific 24 seaboat under the watchful eye of the Royal Navy Black Cat Lynx helicopters.
The books were received on board HMS Exeter by Faulks and members of the Fleming family.
The final stage of the journey saw the books taken to Waterstone's Piccadilly in a cavalcade of Bentleys, including a custom-built 1950s S1 continental convertible.
Faulks, best known for historic novels Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, has said: "In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the morning, then go snorkelling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand words in late afternoon, then more Martinis and glamorous women.
"In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch and the snorkelling."
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Introducing Britain’s most dangerous tortoise
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Danger: Rupert is on the run after escaping from his home
If you see this tortoise, do not approach him. He may be unarmed but he is certainly dangerous.
Rupert, who has attacked children and dogs, is on the run after escaping through a hole in a fence.
The sprightly 60-year-old is always one step ahead of the law – or rather 77-year-old owner Jean Pogson – because he legs it at 4mph before she can grab him.
Mrs Pogson's daughter, Joyce Thomas, says the North African spur-thighed pet gets extremely aggressive and is warning neighbours in Gosport, Hampshire not to go near him.
'He has quite a temper and has been known to bite children plus dogs and other animals,' said Mrs Thomas, 47.
'I would advise people to exercise extreme caution when going near him because he may nip. Most of the time he is OK but if he is in a bad mood there's no telling what he may do,' she added.
Rupert, who has a hole in his shell caused by a run-in with a garden fork, was once introduced to children visiting from Chernobyl – and rather spoiled the proceedings.
'They'd not seen a tortoise before and he bit one of them,' said Mrs Thomas.
Meanwhile, Rupert's disappearance has led Fred, his tortoise friend of 43 years to mope about and not eat properly.
Shark attacks boy in his bedroom
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Jaws: Sam Hawthorne
Anyone involved in a shark attack would be considered unlucky – but few could claim to have been as luckless as Sam Hawthorne.
The teenager survived a terrifying ordeal when he was bitten in the face by one of the killer beasts – in his own bedroom.
The 'attack' happened when the 14-year-old sleepwalked into a long-dead souvenir shark hanging on the wall of his nautical-themed room.
He was left with the creature embedded in his cheek and blood pouring from a wound. His mother, Susan, said: 'It was like something out of a horror film.'
Jaws struck in the middle of the night at the family home in Dudley, West Midlands.
Mrs Hawthorne was woken by her son's screams but arrived too late to fend off the deadly fish – a holiday souvenir.
'The shark must have been embedded in Sam's cheek for about 15 minutes and he was in a lot of pain,' she said.
Fortunately, Sam escaped with just a small scar. 'It was the most frightening experience of my life,' he said.
Karate students take out robber
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
'This is a stick up! Give me all your money, and... oh, sh-'
It's been a bad few days for criminals. Not only did a mugger in Germany get taken down by a blind judo champion, but an armed robber in Colombia found out the hard way that a karate academy is a lousy place to try and rob.
The thief discovered the flaw in his plans when the students at the academy didn't take kindly to being robbed, police said on Friday.
The robber is now recovering in a hospital, in Santander province north of Bogota, after the martial artists used their combat skills on him and took away his gun.
'An individual entered a martial arts school with a firearm but they managed to react, put their knowledge to use and disarmed him,' Santander police commander Col. Julio Cesar Santoyo told local Caracol radio.
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Skydivers take leap for commercial break
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Sky jumpers form a human H over fields
A whole new meaning to the phrase 'commercial break' could be coined after a live TV advert tonight
featuring a bunch of product-plugging skydivers.
The team of 18 daredevils has just 3min 20secs to spell out a message to viewers in formation during their descent.
If everything goes according to plan, it will be a great coup for car maker Honda and Channel 4. If it doesn't... well, it doesn't bear thinking about.
The advert, promoting the new Accord, will be broadcast at 8.10pm during the show Come Dine With Me.
It is inspired by the tagline: 'If it's difficult, it's worth doing.'
Reportedly costing £500,000, the ad will see skydivers from around the world jump from 4,270m (14,000ft) to spell out the word 'Honda'.
The stunt is due to take place over the town of Lillo near the Spanish capital Madrid, but will be abandoned if the weather is poor.
Instead, a rehearsal jump filmed last night will be broadcast. The idea was developed by Channel 4's strategic sales team, which is obviously keen to come up with novel ways to stop viewers switching channels during commercial breaks.
'This concept breaks the boundaries of the “perceived” confines of TV advertising. It's about creating talkability on a big scale, managing the risk and being seen as pioneers,' said Channel 4's Andy Barnes.
German city hunts for crocodile
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
What the crocodile may look like (assuming it is crocodile)
City officials in Germany say they've called in an expert to lead the hunt for a crocodile spotted in a local river.
Hildesheim city spokesman Horst Richter says two municipal employees got a five-minute glimpse of the reptile Monday on a backwater of the Innerste river. The animal, about 2 1/2 feet long, then disappeared into the brush.
Richter said Tuesday the employees' account was credible because one of them was an avid reptile enthusiast.
It was not immediately clear whether the animal was a crocodile, an alligator or a caiman. The reptile may have been purchased as a pet and released into the river.
Richter says the city has recruited an animal control expert to search for the beast. He says the backwater it was seen in is not open to the public for swimming.
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