The Biscuit Box

New Doctor to be revealed on BBC One tomorrow

Seeded on Fri Jan 2, 2009 4:35 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

The BBC confirmed today that it will reveal the identity of the 11th Doctor as part of a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential to be aired on BBC One tomorrow, Saturday 3 January 2009, at 5.35pm (UK time).

entertainment, tv, bbc, television, doctor-who, dr-who, next-doctor, eleventh-doctor, new-doctor

Who at the Proms

Thu Jan 1, 2009 3:52 AM EST

For those of us in the UK, the Doctor Who concert from The BBC Proms earlier this year, featuring some of the music from the recent series' is being televised this afternoon on BBC1. Hopefully, that means overseas fans will also be able to see it soon.

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music, bbc, concert, arts, doctor-who, classical-music, dr-who, murray-gold, the-proms

Grumpy men have no festive cheer

Seeded on Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:14 AM EST (BBC News)

A group of grumpy old men in Essex have set up a humbug club in a bid to cut down on the festive hype, with reindeer on the menu.

charity, christmas, uk-news, grumpy, essex, scrooge, festive

Drunken yob who left teenager with part of his skull missing after party attack gets just one year's detention

Seeded on Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:54 PM EST (the Mail online)

A yob who left a 15-year-old boy scarred for life after he battered him to the ground with a single punch has been sentenced to one year's detention. Danny Hawkins, 16, boasted about how 'hard' he was on the social network site Bebo before attacking Jordan Hawkins at a party.

violence, attack, crime, coma, uk-news, punishment

In pictures: World Toilet Day - Saving lives

Seeded on Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:19 PM EST (Sky.com)

"For many of the children at this nursery, the new block will be the first time they have had access to separate toilet cubicles and cleaning facilities." One of those terribly sad reminders that there are still people have to live in such horrible conditions.

peru, children, world-news, sanitation, hygiene, world-toilet-day, platform2

VAT fraudster must pay back £26 million

Seeded on Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:10 PM EST (BBC News)

A 35-year-old man jailed for his part in a multi-million pound VAT fraud must repay £26m to the government. The repayment order on Craig Johnson who is serving 12-and-a-half years, was made at a confiscation hearing.

tax, fraud, crime, government, uk-news, vat

Mother forced to take police check to escort son to school

Seeded on Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:15 PM EDT (BBC News)

A mother has been told she cannot travel to school with her severely epileptic son because she has not been police checked. Jayne Jones, of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, used to travel with her son Alex, 14, in the council-provided taxi when she feared he may have a fit.

child, education, epilepsy, school-run, mother-and-son, more-council-madness

Don't teach boys to be like girls

Seeded on Mon Jul 7, 2008 5:06 PM EDT (The Times)

If you were an energetic nine-year-old boy who loved school, did your best but also loved charging about, trying to beat your friends at every game possible, imagine the hell of our currrent state school system where ball games are banned from the playground in case someone gets …

games, children, play, education, school, boys, behaviour

Ruth Rendell speaks out against female genital mutilation

Seeded on Mon Jul 7, 2008 4:43 PM EDT (Telegraph)

The novelist is campaigning to stop up to 20,000 girls in Britain being mutilated each year, reports Victoria Lambert

women, health, community, tradition, custom, girls, female-circumcision, female-genital-mutilation, fmg

Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist, say report

Seeded on Mon Jul 7, 2008 3:49 PM EDT (Telegraph)

Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency.

food, children, politics, school, racism, uk-news, toddlers, political-correctness-gone-mad, government-rubbish

Bride's day – and dress – falls apart at altar

Seeded on Mon Jul 7, 2008 3:45 PM EDT (Telegraph)

A bride is suing a designer after her £2,000 wedding dress came apart on her big day, leaving her semi naked at the altar. The woman is claiming damages of £20,000 from the designer, who was not named but is based at Rapallo, twenty miles from Chiavari

italy, dress, wedding, bride, home-garden, embarrassment

Wood density key to Stradivarius violin sound

Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 5:11 AM EDT (BBC News)

The unique sounds of a Stradivarius violin may come down to the density of the wood it is made from. Scientists say the patterns of the grain are markedly different from modern instruments.

italy, music, arts, wood, violin, instruments, stradivarius, antonio-stradivari

Cold sore virus secret revealed

Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 5:07 AM EDT (BBC News)

The secret of how the cold sore virus manages to persist for a lifetime in the human body may have been cracked by US scientists. The herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) can lie dormant in facial nerves, emerging periodically to cause sores.

health, face, herpes, cold-sore, sores

Tofu 'may raise risk of dementia'

Seeded on Sat Jul 5, 2008 5:05 AM EDT (BBC News)

Eating high levels of some soy products - including tofu - may raise the risk of memory loss, research suggests. The study focused on 719 elderly Indonesians living in urban and rural regions of Java.

food, health, brain, soy, eating, alzheimers, memory-loss, demetia

Bros reunion tour plan revealed

Seeded on Tue Jul 1, 2008 8:15 AM EDT (BBC News)

Bros could become the latest boy band to reform and go on tour, singer Matt Goss has revealed. Goss, together with twin brother Luke, on drums, and bassist Craig Logan, enjoyed huge success in the late 1980s with hits including I Owe You Nothing.

entertainment, music, cheese, uk-news, bros, grolsch, boy-bands, 80s-pop

Study puts car security to test

Seeded on Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:16 AM EDT (BBC News)

Experts testing car security were able to break into four out of five of the cars they checked, a study says. It took them eight seconds to get into a Fiat Panda Dynamic and 11 seconds to enter a Kia Pacinto SE in the survey of 20 new vehicles for What Car? magazine.

technology, security, car, crime, break-in, what-car

'Back from dead' baby critical

Seeded on Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:15 PM EDT (BBC News)

A baby who was pronounced dead after plunging into the River Thames is fighting for her life in hospital, after doctors found a faint heartbeat. The baby girl, aged 10 months, fell into the river at Ferry Lane, in Goring, south Oxfordshire.

death, accident, baby, uk-news, river-thames, back-from-the-dead

It's Paddington's 50th birthday

Seeded on Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:09 AM EDT (BBC News)

Paddington Bear fans are to mark the popular character's 50th anniversary with a party in London later. The first story was published in 1958, when he was found at London's Paddington station with a note that said: "Please look after this bear."

entertainment, children, london, birthday, story, uk-news, paddington-bear, childhood-favourite, half-century

Dubai to get 'moving' skyscraper

Seeded on Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:40 AM EDT (BBC News)

Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin. The Dynamic Tower, which will be built in Dubai, will feature 80 pre-fabricated apartments, spinning independently of one another.

technology, building, dubai, architecture, energy-efficient, skyscraper, wind-turbines

Washed up feet mystery baffles Mounties

Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:46 AM EDT (BBC News)

When two unrelated human feet washed up on the beaches of two small islands north of Vancouver in six days last August, a spokesman for the Mounties said the odds of it happening were a million to one. This week the number of feet found rose to six.

georgia, mystery, odd-news, crime, british-columbia, vancouver, feet, severed-body-parts

Nominee for best 'state the obvious' headline... "Prison had 'criminal subculture' "

Seeded on Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:43 AM EDT (BBC News)

There was a "criminal subculture" at a jail at the time a prisoner was killed by two inmates, an inquest has heard. Isn't that generally the case in a prison - a building by it's very nature being full of criminals?

prison, murder, crime, uk-news

Are you going forward? Then stop now - one girl's mission to right the English language

Seeded on Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:54 AM EDT (BBC News)

Blue sky thinking, pushing the envelope - the problem with office-speak is that it cloaks the brutal modern workplace in such brainlessly upbeat language... as Lucy Kellaway dialogues.

english, speech, language, linguistics, dialogue, office-speak, annoying-phrases

'Unicorn' born in captivity

Seeded on Fri Jun 13, 2008 11:32 AM EDT (ananova.com)

An Italian nature reserve is claiming the world's first unicorn after a deer was born with a single horn in the centre of its head. "This is fantasy becoming reality,'' said Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Centre of Natural Sciences in Prato, near Florence.

italy, deer, nature, science, biology, myth, legend, unicorn

Spain treats child phone addicts in mental institution

Seeded on Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:01 AM EDT (BBC News)

Two children in Spain have been admitted to a mental health institution to be treated for addiction to their mobile phones, Spanish media report.

technology, spain, children, cell-phone, mental-health, mobile-phone

Violent sons turned in by mother

Seeded on Fri May 30, 2008 1:11 PM EDT (BBC News)

A mother has said she has no regrets about reporting her sons to the police after learning they had brutally attacked a man on a night out. Carol Saldinack, 51, of Norfolk, said she was so ashamed of their behaviour she could barely look them in the eye.

violence, justice, crime, uk-news, mother-reports-sons

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