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It is official, UK’s, singles sex life under scanner

The sex lives of singles in the UK are under scanner as they are monitored by the authorities to check misuse of single-occupant council tax. Undercover snoopers are tasked to find out how often lovers visit and whether single residents are sharing a bed every night with the same person.

For access to their bedrooms, local councils allegedly dangle a “tax benefits carrot to the house holders” in return. After the government urged the authorities to flush out erring singles, they adopted the “spot-check technique” on the properties where a single-person council discount is claimed.

In Essex, claimants of the discount have to sign a form authorizing:

“the council or its agents to make inquiries to corroborate this claim” and “inspect the property.”

Thus, the snooping inspectors can park discreetly outside homes to monitor lovers’ movements and register whether the same person leaves the house in the morning and returns at night as well as check on how often lovers’ cars are parked outside houses.

Even women sleeping with their landlords are under the scanner. This whole exercise is the result of the hefty discount of 25 percent reduction that can be claimed by a single person.

Visit the tree with Virgin Mary - a divine blessing

Local residents shake and cry when they visit the tree at Toronto, a suburb of Scarborough… The traditional open-handed pose image resembling Virgin Mary, was spotted on a tree trunk.

Christopher Moreau was the one to spot the trees markings in his neighbour’s garden. He believes that the image helped his mother-in-law gain health and recover from cancer.

Christopher said:

“At first, I thought I was seeing things. Then I showed it to my mother-in-law. She was overwhelmed “I don’t know why it’s there, but I think it’s a blessing. I hope it would help others who are looking for miracle.”

Eulalee Hamilton, Moreau’s neighbour and owner of the tree, said she was happy for the people who visited to see the likeness and at the same time she was apprehensive about the visitors causing damage to her garden. As long as people do not damage her garden she doesn’t mind them paying a visit to personally experience the so-called ‘Miracle’ Her personal opinion is that, it is not a sign from God, she said the image was just the scarring left from a limb that was cut off last year.

Believers and non-believers of the miracle will have their own views. A spokesman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto said that it does not investigate the veracity of such ‘appearances’.
Suffering human beings will not hesitate to visit the site for blessings and hopefully find relief to their ailments.

Britain’s most senior Muslim officer accuses Sir Ian Blair of discrimination

At a press conference held by Britain’s senior most Muslim police officer, Mr. Ghaffur, he directly blamed the Metropolitan police chief, Sir Ian Blair, for discriminating against him over a long period.

This statement by Tarique Ghaffur, the assistant commissioner, resulted in the Metropolitan police top brass to react strongly. Reacting to the public comments made by Mr. Ghaffur, Deputy Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson stated:

“In short, I think it is long past time that we all shut up, stop making public statements about private disputes, and get on with the job we are paid to do.”

Mr. Ghaffur, who had launched a claim of racial discrimination with an employment tribunal, said that:

“The case is essentially to do with my treatment at the highest levels of the Met, in particular the discrimination I have been subject to over a long period of time by the present commissioner Sir Ian Blair.”

The Senior Officials at Scotland Yard were furious at the public airing of an internal matter. Sir Paul said:

“I do not think it was appropriate for this matter to be conducted in such a public way. On being informed just last evening that he had decided to hold a press conference, I did make this clear to him and suggested he reconsider his intentions.”

What ever the case may be, it is unfair to wash dirty linen in public as the act itself tarnishes the image of the whole police service.

Wear ‘Onion Goggles’ for tear-free chopping

Eddingtons’, the Cookware Maker, has come to every tear-shedding onion-choppers’ aid. They have invented a pair of ‘onion goggles’ that can offer “tear-free chopping” for chefs finding the onion cutting experience a ‘crying- ordeal’.

The swimming goggle-style glasses fit closely over the eyes to keep the irritant onion vapours at bay. The goggles comprise of a foam seal that protects eyes from the “irritating onion vapors” and an anti-fog coating on its lenses that provides “maximum clarity and eye protection”. They are available in plain white or a stylish pale pink.

The goggles weigh 6 kilos. They come in an easy to carry see-through storage case. The only snag is that the goggles do not seem to be that much useful for visually impaired cooks because they ‘do not work over the top of spectacles.’

Former BBC Masterchef winner Gerry Goldwyre, who now runs a private dining restaurant in Eskbank, welcomes the invention, saying:

“My eyes suffer terribly- every time I chop onions, I look like a Scot coming out of Murrayfield after a beating by England. I have tried all of the old wives tales to no effect. If they have finally nailed the problem with this invention, I would be very impressed,”