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This is a great tale of how Fleet Street used to be...

Just watching Undercover Mum on ITV (which is a bit of a shock). Interestingly, they are showing footage of an investigation they made of the beef sold in the local Bath Wetherspoons. Apparently (and allegedly, for you legal beagles) they are selling something slightly more exotic than the customers might think. There is less Mooo for your GBP and more Zebu. Zebu is a tropical version of cattle whose meat isn't quite as palatable as domestic british beef. So what this pub chain is doing is selling interbred cattle products to the masses without disclosing its origins. I wonder how many other chains are doing this?

Its great to hear that, after much pressure from web-based chocolate lovers, Cadbury is bringing back the mighty Wispa.

Ian of Spinneyhead has set up a site in memory of his old friend, Andy. The site is called bot-crossing and its aim is to redistribute Andy's robot toys - mainly transformers by the looks of it. There have been quite a few left on the streets of the North, carefully tagged with instructions to go to the blog should you find them. So if you're in Manchester (or thereabouts) keep those magpie eyes peeled!

Andy died in May of 2007, leaving behind a huge collection of Transformers and GI Joes. Rather than throwing them all away we felt they should be used in as constructive a way as possible.

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