A Stranger's London
Video upsets palace
A home computer game in which Prince Charles has potties emptied over his head has enraged Buckingham Palace, reports Daily Mirror.In the game Charles is also hit by wet nappies and has to tackle an obstacle course of prams, cots and nannies to reach Diana's bed. The Palace was said to be 'horrified'. A spokesman said, "We don't approve of anything in bad taste."
The game, called Di's Baby was designed by former computer salesman Keith Wood, 26, of St Austell, Cornwall.
Last month it was also reported that a German magazine had published a picture - actually a photo-montage - of Princess Diana's head on a nude body. The uncanny resemblance has spurned a high blackmarket price of the picture.
The stonecold husband
A wife whose husband did not like sex and hardly slept with her for three years has won a divorce. Gym teacher Valerie Hannell, 38, was a woman of "normal desires", said Mr Justice Waterhouse. And he added, "that is not the quality of emotional sexual life a wife could reasonably expect.He said Mrs Hannell's husband Roland 45, also a Gym teacher, thought sleeping together was "a middle-class convention."
The judge said: "it has been a virtually stone-cold marriage for seven years. The judge added that Mrs Hannell could no longer be expected to tolerate her husband's behaviour and granted her a decree nisi. Her husband had denied behaving badly and said there was still a chance of saving the marriage. He said: "I am stunned. I never regarded my behaviour as anything that could provide grounds for divorce."
Smoker is hooked on 'cure' gum
A boss who packed in smoking is hooked on his cure-nicotine chewing gum. In two years he has chewed through 11,235 "tablets" average of 15 a day.The 59-year-old businessman from Warwickshire used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day. He is now having hypnosis to end his addiction, a doctor has revealed in the British Medical Journal.
Slap tax on cyclists
Maria Falkender writing in "The other side of politics" column in The Mail on Sunday pleads with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Nigel Lawson on behalf of Britain's motorists to slap a modest tax on cyclists in the Budget. "It's about time the growing number of cyclists were made to pay for the nuisance they cause those of us on four wheels. Weaving and dodging through the traffic, they are a danger not only to their own lives but to mine! And while they do it, they are, the health experts tell us, keeping fit while our nervous systems crack."Failing a tax on them, then a final plea, this time, to Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley: At least make them remove their Sony Walkman earphones so they can hear me as I lean on the horn!"
A lot of hot air
The biggest nonsense of the week has been a fatuous display of reverse discrimination by Equal Opportunities Commission, in their efforts to force Dan Air to hire more Stewards. (The week in question - Alan Williams) This follows an anonymous complaint that the airline employs only one steward. But the company argues, not unreasonably that most passengers prefer to be served by attractive young women - though it refrains from passing judgement on the type of man most likely to apply for this type of job. (Informed opinion on this matter can be obtained from any stewardess) Dan Air employs four women pilots - far more than any British Airline ...Playing Santa to the needy
The amazing public response to the calls for donations to the tragic Ethiopian famine situation has also attracted a variety of unexpected reactions from some quarters.One Daily Mirror reader - a Mrs Clark of Bristol in a letter to the newspaper has informed her relatives not to send her any Christmas gifts.
"I am informing all my relatives and friends that I do not want any presents this christmas," she wrote. "Instead, I want the money to go to the starving Ethiopians. We all have everything in comparison with those poor people."
