The latest addition to their range of ice cream’s is different from most in that is churned from breast milk and served with a rusk and optional shot of Calpol or Bonjela.

Baby Gaga is on sale at the restaurant Icecreamists for a mere £14.00 a time and the provider of the expressed milk who has described her employment as a ‘recession beater’, believes that if more mother’s were aware of how tasty breast milk is more would consider breast feeding their babies.

Victoria Hiley responded to an advert at the establishment appealing for breast milk and gets £15.00 for every ten ounces of milk that she can provide.

Mrs Hiley’s donation was expressed on site and pasteurised before being churned with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest.

The owner of Icecreamists Matt O’Connor says that fourteen other women have come forward to offer their services and insists that health checks made on the donors were the same used by hospitals to screen blood donors.

“If it’s good enough for our children, it’s good enough for the rest of us,” he said. “Some people will hear about it and go yuck – but actually it’s pure organic, free-range and totally natural.”

The long defunct mines have been accumulating water in the vast underground cavities that were excavated for their gold, the water is reacting with rocks formed about 2.8 million years ago triggering a chemical reaction that produces sulphuric acid, heavy metals, toxins and radiation.

The mines which were dug more than a century ago have now reached their water storage limit and experts and government officials claim that the mines will start leaking a toxic cocktail of chemicals in the coming months.

Terence McCarthy, a professor of geosciences at the University of Witwatersrand, wrote in a report; “The threat of acid water decanting from old mine workings is a real and present danger. It poses a threat to our economy, environment, health and history.”

The problem of acid mine drainage has plagued derelict mines around the world for decades but has so far been restricted to more remote areas.

The water in the Johannesburg mines had been controlled by a major pumping station up until three years ago when the gold rush ended and the pump was turned off.

The water level was then several hundred metres underground but has been rising at an average of fifteen metres a month, with the void expected to be filled completely within three years.

If the problem continues to be ignored leakage from the mines will be easy to deal with at first but become more difficult and expensive to control the longer that action is delayed.

In his report McCarthy suggests that the problem can be resolved by immediately setting up two pump and treatment works along the 25 mile stretch of the gold reef to keep the water to at least 300 metres below the surface.

“The solutions are expensive, though not technically daunting and must be implemented in a matter of months,” his report said.

The government agrees that urgent action is needed but has given little indication it will do anything before the acid water reaches underground facilities in Johannesburg.

A report from a government-appointed team of experts planned for release in early January has yet to see the light of day, prompting the opposition Democratic Alliance to say delays are putting lives at risk.

Now have we packed eveything we need? Booze, check, food, check, musical instruments, check, enough guns and ammunition to start a war? Check!

Picnic Kosovo style

Darin McCloud, already obese at 20 stone, is aiming to increase his weight by a further stone in order to qualify for the surgery, although it is no foregone conclusion that he will be eligible for the operation at this stage.

His case does however have the backing of his diabetic consultant at Queen Alexandra Hospital who claims that the surgery would help his diabetes.

Dr Lorraine Albon said of the case; “Darin has done everything he can do and the problem is if he doesn’t have the surgery soon he will lose his job and add further complications to his diabetes. ‘For someone like Darin it is delaying the inevitable. He would put the weight on slowly over time anyway.”

Darin McCloud who is 5′7″ tall, believes that the operation will help his diabetes and says; “It will help me stop being on insulin and help me with my other problems. I have had diabetes for the best part of 15 years and I’m absolutely scared of being a burden on my family in the future – but I still eat, and that I can’t get my head around. There is a switch somewhere, but I can’t turn it off. That is the crux of the matter and why I need help.”

The 45 year old who applied for the operation in February 2009, was told that he maybe considered for surgery if he was a stone heavier and he has since decided to increase his weight in hope of a favourable decision.

While NTT was launching the earliest commercial phone network in Japan in 1979, Britain was getting excited about making a mobile phone out of some bits and bobs found in the British Telecoms engineering stores.

This is the result:

Well at least some of the ashes made there way up his nose, as he says in the book;

‘As I took the lid off of the box, a fine spray of his ashes blew out on to the table. I couldn’t just brush him off so I wiped my finger over it and snorted the residue.’

Richards claims that his fathers ashes had been in his home, kept in a black box for about six years ‘because I really couldn’t bring myself to scatter him to the winds, I finally planted a sturdy English oak to spread him around.’

The sixty six year old Rolling Stone adds; ‘Ashes to ashes, father to son. He is now growing oak trees and would love me for it.’

Princess Diana

Only in America!  Someone in the USA is selling a speck of Princess Diana’s hair for just $9.95 on eBay, unbelievable!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Princess-Diana-personal-hair-strand-speck-/230495194189?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35aa958c4d

If you look further down the page, hair specks are obviously their speciality as there are other celebrity locks for sale, well actually they’re not even locks, not exactly sure what a speck is but if you look really closely at the little box at the bottom of the image this is what you are bidding for, totally bizarre.