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It’s music to voters’ ears

REPUBLICAN John McCain will be using a country rock song called Raisin’ McCain by John Rich as a campaign anthem in his bid to reach the White House. Read

Now I've won £546,480

REMEMBER that Lisa O’Brien received an email saying she had won £546,480 on the E-Lottery? Read

It's too late to stop my ageing!

SCIENTISTS at Stanford University in America may have found the secret of immortality. Or at least how to live a long time and still look good. Read

That's heavy holiday reading

WHEN I take a break my holiday reading includes thrillers, historical novels, maybe a comedy. Something light in which to wallow and escape. Read

Have you met my good friend Kylie?

THE six degrees of separation is a theory that has long fascinated me. Read

It’s just human nature!

A READER sent these recorded conversations of customers who phoned a call centre: Read

Fortune for ‘lucky’ Lisa!

LISA O’Brien was pleased but surprised to receive an email saying she had won £546,480 on the E-Lottery. Read

And now here are all our futures . . .

HERE is the news for next year. We can look forward to green initiatives in January about plans to extract heat from the Earth’s core. Read

So not down in the mouth, then?

SCIENTISTS at Leeds Dental Institute have created a solution that can repair holes in teeth naturally and without the need for drilling and filling. Read

Piles of gen on Boney’s doc

BILL Place tells me his wife recently had an operation for Dupuytren’s contracture, which is a condition affecting the fingers. Read

Parting’s ‘sweet sorrow’

OUR daughter and son-in-law and our two grandsons have been staying with us for 10 days. Read

You can’t beat a good old family meal (or several)

MY love of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on a Sunday came in for some stick while elder daughter Siobhan was staying with us. Read

The night that Floyd came to town (late!)

PINK Floyd played the Plaza Teen Club at Thornton Lodge in 1967 and I asked if anyone remembered the gig. Read

Oh, that’s hurting me says the male

NOW this may not come as a great surprise but research scientists at Harvard University have found that men and women have different types of brain. Read

Leave duty free drinks until after flight and save trouble

DID you read about that bloke on a flight from Gatwick to Cuba who got drunk and tried to open the door of the airplane at 35,000 feet? Read

Carnival capers on the record

ORGANISING a village fete or carnival can involve trials and tribulations, but can also be a lot of fun. Read

Can you stomach this lot?

I GET contributions from readers culled from the internet and I found this one particularly amusing. It’s a brief lexicon of culinary terms. Read

Happy days are here again

I ALWAYS said that when I got old I would wear purple and run a stick along railings to make a noise. Read

Reality is a bitter pill to swallow ...

I ALWAYS take an interest in newspaper stories about scientific research. Read

On the whole, I’d rather be at home

HEALTH Secretary Alan Johnson has said people should have the choice of where to die. Read

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