Month: May 2012

Rug Wash

Police were called after an altercation at a carwash in Västerås, Sweden this week.  A forty-three year old Swedish man reportedly became aggressive after staff at the petrol station advised him against using the car wash to clean his Persian rug (not a euphemism, an actual Persian rug). According to

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Badger’s Eurovision Commentary

Well, as promised Badger commentated live on Twitter during this year’s exciting Eurovision.  In case you for some reason had something more interesting to do than sit at home simultaneously watching the Eurovision and monitoring the Twitter feed, or more likely suffered some sort of four hour power cut and

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A Strange Place to Park!

In Polish news this week a reckless driver who was described by a local resident of the village where he lived as “a dangerous driver and could have killed someone” according to the Metro report woke up to find someone had moved his car. Described in all the reports we

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125 Years Young!

This week the Bristol Dogs and Cats’ Home is celebrating its 125thbirthday, and everyone’s invited.  This Saturday they are having an open day to raise funds and awareness about animal welfare.  The day starts at 10:30 and runs until 16:00.  Admission is £2 for adults and £1 for children and

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Newsvamp’s Picture Quiz

Well, flush with the success of last week’s quiz we have come back with another picture quiz.  Which movie title is the picture below supposed to represent?  You can send your answer, along with what you think next week’s picture should be to quiz@newsnibbles.co.uk – good luck Nibblers.   And

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Interview With Hetty the Seizure Dog

Today Newsnibbles catches up with Hetty, the first dog in the UK to be both a guide dog for the blind and a seizure alert dog.  She has taken some time out from her busy schedule to tell us a little bit about her work and responsibilities.    1.    Tell

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Newsvamp’s Movie Picture Quiz

Well, a severe lack of entries to our quizzes of late has given us the feeling that perhaps getting your picture published was perhaps not the incentive that we had hoped.  Perhaps our readers are camera shy.  So instead we have come up with this cunning plan.  Below you will

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Flying Reindeer Ends Badly…

Well, a headline about exploding reindeer in The Local grabbed our attention and we had to learn more. In a tragic case of reindeer mass suicide an entire herd of pregnant reindeer plummeted one thousand two hundred feet to their death over the edge of a cliff in northern Sweden. 

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Yeehaw!

A man was stopped on the border between Norway and Sweden this week by police, who discovered the largest haul of smuggled cowboy hats they had seized to date.  The five hundred hat haul was accompanied by large amounts of cigarettes, tobacco and wine. The report in The Local was

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Jarvis Stretchered to Safety

Jarvis, a ten stone American Bulldog is recovering from a traumatic experience this week.  Whilst rambling across several peaks in the Lake District with his owners when he slipped and fell into a lake. His owners were unable to pull him up because he was stuck behind some rocks, and

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