the BBC Reports: You couldn't get much less of a romantic setting for an historic monument. It's in a kerbside cage, stuck on the wall of a sports shop in Cannon Street due for demolition.
The London Stone might fall to urban renewal: Part one...part two.
it was brought to the city by Brutus the Trojan, the legendary founder of London. 'So long as the Stone of Brutus is safe, so London will flourish," says a centuries-old proverb. Thus the London Stone's removal, like the Tower of London's ravens, is said to forebode the city's destruction...
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Backpack bombers? Fact or fiction, or just another slip of the tongue from good old Joe? InTheCold wonders....
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Brian Sibley reports he liked the Princess and the Frog,
but warns:
Both the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Association of Reptilian and Amphibian Veterinarians (I didn't know reptiles and amphibians could become vets!) issued statements warning parents of the dangers of allowing children to handle and kiss frogs.
(you might get Salmonella)
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some really sick news of the day:
One third of anti malarial drugs sold in the third world are substandard.
There is a special place in hell for those who make and distribute counterfeit drugs.
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