Best job: beer tester
November 22nd, 2007
A Tesco worker says she has the best job in the world – as the store’s chief lager taster, the famous beer. The lucky worker is Helen Moores, who has tasted more than a thousand lagers since she started the job two years ago. Helen who works at Tesco HQ in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, admitted her [...]
Cannonball run record
November 20th, 2007
Extreme sports fan Alex Roy said Friday he had smashed the record for the fastest “Cannonball run” across the United States, defying police and speed traps. The American driver of German origin set the record at the wheel of his blue BMW stamped with “Team Polizei” and traveled with a cameraman to document the event. [...]
China cook: poisoning that killed 6 accidental
November 20th, 2007
Cook kills himself, five others by making rat poison dumplings Hubei Province, China, security officials said the poisoning deaths of six people were the result of a highly toxic rat poison being misused: a “chef” mistook rat poison for flour and mixed it into the dough he was using to make rice dumplings. Two elderly [...]
