Last week I was asked to recommend a local band, and believe me it is never an easy question. I love my music and I love my local music. There is just so much good music about this land that I have to think very hard before coming up with an answer. But there can [...]

So rumour has it the people of the UK and Ireland like to talk about the weather a lot. I would agree with this. When its sunny, its beautiful. Most of the time its not. I don’t want to whine on about it too much, ‘cos I’m going to the sun soon anyway. The Guardian [...]

The crazy weather and threat of snow must have too many people to the BBC’s Weather site lately. The default is London, though I want to change it to Belfast, but when I try to do so I get a nasty 502 error. Unfortunately a server error occured whilst trying to retrieve this page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/weather/search/new_search.pl? [...]

Today the images of Richard Hammond‘s high speed crash have been released by the BBC. He was making an attempt at the British land speed (currently 300.3mph) record in the Thule Vampire, a 30-foot Rolls-Royce jet-powered dragster made in Sweden capable of reaching 272 mph in six seconds en route to a theoretical top speed [...]

HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo is reported to have said that a “top 10 made up entirely of their [Beatles] music would be almost guaranteed”. This came about after it was rumoured that EMI is considering releasing The Beatles’ back catalogue as downloads for the first time. According to the BBC, this is due to the [...]

I have become a regular reader of The Guardian over the last month or so. I read in last saturdays edition that they will be giving away a free copy of Supersize me today. It is a great movie, and after watching Morgan Spurlock‘s 30 Days series a few weeks ago followed closely by the [...]

I read today that two men, aged 20 and 18, from England were jailed for the manslaughter of a man they attacked, all in the name of ‘happy slapping‘. To top it off, they only got 13 and 12 months. respectively. Something has gone horribly wrong when this happens. The question is, will it happen [...]