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Denis: Iconic adverts we can’t forget

THERE we were, standing round the bar talking about old television adverts, like you do.Read

Denis: Heard the one about Yorkshire?

PETE Foster was amused by the recent spate of Yorkshire jokes that readers have been submitting.Read

Denis: Recycling on the Olympic scale

THAT voyage of discovery I undertook, trying to discover maritime connections with the board rooms of Colne Valley mills, produced a lot of fascinating facts.Read

Denis: What’s the problem?

THERE is a bit of a to-do about closing down 6Music, a radio station on the BBC.Read

Denis: How to buy a spirit in a bottle

YOU can buy just about anything on the internet.Read

Denis: Britney and an egg sandwich

IF you think selling ghosts is daft, items just as bizarre have been sold on the internet before.Read

Denis: Store idea divorced from reality

TOP store Debenhams has launched a divorce list.Read

Denis: Too much overseas aid

ONE of the funniest newspaper cartoons I have seen recently was that of a bloke taking a street poll and asking a man passing by: “If there were an election tomorrow – how would you spoil your ballot paper?”Read

Denis: Your direct line to the Lord

CATHOLICS in France can now pick up the telephone and, for 31p per minute, confess their sins.Read

Denis: Tyke route to domestic bliss

I KEEP getting sent Yorkshire gags. Here's one from Phil Gale of Emley.Read

Denis: Dining out in Little Britain

MY wife is hooked on Come Dine With Me on television.Read

Denis: Just too good to be true

SCAMS are alive and well and going the rounds as regularly as ever.Read

Denis : Finally a gas bill get out close

PHILIP Cooper from Rastrick was surprised by a letter he recently received from Phil Bentley, the managing director of British Gas, congratulating him on being a member of the Price Protection scheme.Read

Denis: The bombers will never win

OVER in Donegal, we had a weekend with our grandsons and wanted to give them a treat. Read

Denis: Sting’s sour note

STING, it has been reported, was paid up to £2 million to play a concert for Gulnara Karimova, the daughter and anointed heir of Uzbekistan dictator Islam Karimov.Read

Denis: I’d prescribe a does of good old Doddy

ANOTHER wonderful piece of research from scientists at the Department of the Flaming Obvious.Read

Denis: Doctor Denis and Kevin moon

SCIENTIST Dr Richard Pike has raised that old educational chestnut of Mickey Mouse degrees again. Read

Denis: I'll settle for a bowl of Betty's hotpot

WOW, I thought, when I read that J K Rowling and her publisher Bloomsbury are being sued for £500 million. That knocks the Euro Lottery into a cocked hat.Read

Denis: Aliens exist and they support Man United

MORE than 6,000 pages of UFO reports covering the period from 1994 to 2000 have been released by the Ministry of Defence. Read

Denis: Respect – it’s a game of two halves

THE Kick It Out campaign, aimed at ridding football of racism, has been running since 1993.Read