The Go-Kart With A Roof?

Many cars have been released over the generations, but this has got to be the smallest piece of four-wheeled transport to be released for the least amount of money. Costing just 100,000 rupees ($1,979; £1,366), the Nano will now go on sale across India next month, with deliveries starting in July.

Tata hopes the 10 feet (3 metre) long, five-seater car will be cheap enough to encourage millions of Indians to trade up from their motorcycles. Tata owner Ratan Tata has described the Nano as a "milestone". Analysts say it won't make a profit for six years. Tata's managing director Ravi Kant said that from the first orders, a ballot will then select the initial 100,000 people to get their Nano.

"I think we are at the gates of offering a new form of transport to the people of India and later, I hope, other markets elsewhere in the world," Mr Tata added.
"I hope it will provide safe, affordable four-wheel transportation to families who till now have not been able to own a car."

iPod Touch VS iPhone

Just to clarify before I begin, I have an iPod Touch so if I appear biased, I am sorry.

The theme of 'touchscreens' is sweeping the nation at the moment and (I think) the two most popular of these are the iPod Touch and the iPhone. The iPhone is basically an iPod and a phone which gives it a lot of extra advantages, but be warned you will have to pay a lot more for them.

I bought my iPod Touch from TESCO for £140.68, which was after getting about a twenty pound discount because my mum works there (privellidge card), which I thought was a very reasonable price. I was originally searching for an iPhone so I went on price-comparison websites. One price I found for 'Pay-As-You-Go' was £440.42 and one for pay monthly was £99 for the 8GB iPhone and £30 a month, so for the iPhone you would be paying much much more for it.

Are Gas Converted Cars All They Are Cracked Up To Be?

We are getting all of the hype for these wonderous, climate-changing cars, but a 50 year-old soon found out that smoking in a gas converted car is a bad idea. As he works for an energy-saving company, he decided to buy one of these liquid petroleum-powered cars privately on October 3rd and had it thoroughly check over twice by a garage.


"I was told you get a slight smell of gas when you fill up so thought nothing of it and wound the window down to freshen the air and put it back up again," he said."I fancied a fag so wound the window down again slightly and then lit up. I was doing about 30 mph and as I lit the cigarette there was an almighty explosion. The windows went out, the bonnet went up and the boot went up just as you see in the Hollywood movies. I was belted in and braked sharply. I can't remember this but I was told that I was directing traffic around the car whilst my suit jacket was still smoking. The fireball singed me on my face, hands and legs and melted my jacket lining and some of my shirt. I looked as if a firework had exploded in my face."


It is thought a leak in the pipe from the filler to the petrol tank allowed gas to seep into the car which ignited when he lit up. Firefighters believe the seats took the force of the explosion, allowing Mr Tidbury to walk away from the blast.


This smoker has now seen the light and he has got a target to quit this nasty habit before Christmas.

"Ello? Zis ees ze French president..."

Now, Sarah Palin has recieved a lot of bad comments recently, but this bulldog loving woman got fooled by the Canadian comedian Marc Antoine Audette who made her believe that she was talking to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Topics discussed ranged from the beauty of Mr Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni, to the prospect of a joint hunting trip. A spokesperson for the governer said that she was "mildly amused" by the prank. At one point during the phone call, aired three days before the US election, Mr Audette told Mrs Palin he could see her as president one day. Laughingly, the Republican candidate replied: "Maybe in eight years."

Mr Audette and fellow comedian Sebastien Trudel present a programme on the radio station CKOI Montreal. Calling themselves the Masked Avengers, the duo have in the past duped Nicolas Sarkozy himself, former French President Jacques Chirac, and the music star Britney Spears with prank phone calls.

If you want to hear the phone call or see more information on this story, go to this address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7704666.stm

Oh Dear What Can The Matter Be? One Man Is Found Glued To The Lavatory!

One unlucky man had to be taken to hospital with his toilet seat stuck to his seat. The 35 year-old man was using a public toilet cubicle in Brierley Hill in the West Midlands when he became stuck. It is thought that the glue was smeared on the seat by a prankster.

An ambulance crew and a rapid response vehicle rushed to the rather embarrassing scene, but unfortunately they could not release him on site so he had to be carted off to hospital with the toilet seat still attached to his behind.

An ambulance service spokesman said: "He appeared to be none the worse for his ordeal other than being understandably somewhat embarrassed." A spokesman later said: "With the help of a local authority and the fire and rescue service, the man was removed from the cubicle still attached to the stainless steel toilet,".

The toilet was later taken back to the public convenience and re-installed.

Hot-headed Duffy

After seeing the title of this post, you may think that Duffy has been really angry with someone/thing...but no, she is literally hot-headed as she sets her hair on fire while working backstage in the US.

She says "I was in the dressing room and I had music on and candles alight. She blew out the candle when it began to melt. I bent down, not realising it was still lit. Then the entire left side of my hair went up in flames. At that moment, Chris was walking down the corridor to say, Hi", said the Mercy singer, recalling her first meeting with Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin. "I hadn't met him before and the place stank of burning hair. Somebody came in and said, 'Is someone cooking chicken?'. I had black crumbs of hair all down me so I had to give it a chop and pin it back. It was really bad and properly embarrassing. Can you imagine if I had gone up in flames? Nightmare. I honestly saw my life flash before my eyes."

E-mail error ends up on road sign

Everybody knows that sometimes people translate things slightly wrong. In this case, they haven't mistranslated anything, but rather put the completely the wrong sentence.

Half of the sign is easy to understand as it is, obviously, in English. But when you translate the Welsh part into English, it reads: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated." So that was what went up under the English version which barred lorries from a road near a supermarket.

Swansea Council became lost in translation when it was looking to halt heavy goods vehicles using a road near an Asda store in the Morriston area. All official road signs in Wales are bilingual, so the local authority e-mailed its in-house translation service for the Welsh version of: "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only". The reply duly came back and officials set the wheels in motion to create the large sign in both languages. The notice went up and all seemed well - until Welsh speakers began pointing out the embarrassing error.