Archive for July 2008

Pirate video factory in garden shed - Manchester Evening News

Pirate video factory in garden shed
Manchester Evening News, UK - Jul 31, 2008
A COUNTERFEITER who ran a `sophisticated’ pirate video factory from his garden shed has been landed with a £10000 bill. Michael Kilcourse, 44, was fined
DVD counterfeiter fined £7500 Crain’s Manchester Business
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Beer and bouzouki in garden taverna - Huddersfield Examiner

Beer and bouzouki in garden taverna
Huddersfield Examiner, UK - 13 minutes ago
Rod Bowles, of Wooldale doesn’t need to catch a plane to sample the atmosphere of a Greek taverna; he just opens the door of his garden shed.

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Ridemaster Pro is world’s most advanced rocking horse - Daily Telegraph

The £40,000 virtual reality riding machine combines a mechanical horse with a host of electronic sensors and a screen, to recreate the joys of an outdoor ride without the need for mucking out. The Ridemaster Pro, which is made by Racewood Simulators …

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Men carried off shed - NW Evening Mail

Men carried off shed
NW Evening Mail, UK - 1 hour ago
A PAIR of thieves have been electronically tagged after stealing a neighbour’s garden shed.Luke Woodward and Adam Teare were spotted carrying the base of

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Men carried off shed - North West Evening Mail

A PAIR of thieves have been electronically tagged after stealing a neighbour’s garden shed.Luke Woodward and Adam Teare were spotted carrying the base of the shed from the garden of a Vulcan Road home. Furness Magistrates’ Court heard that at 2 …

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Mother’s horror at newborn baby death - East Anglian Daily Times

A SUFFOLK schoolgirl accused of murdering her newborn baby has claimed that her boyfriend took the child away and later told her: “He’s gone. I’ve smashed the baby’s head.” The girl, who was 15 when she gave birth alone in a downstairs toilet at …

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Boyfriend killed baby, court told - Eastern Daily Press

A Suffolk schoolgirl accused of murdering her newborn baby has claimed that her boyfriend took the child away and later told her “He’s gone. I’ve smashed the baby’s head.” The girl, who was 15 when she gave birth alone in a downstairs toilet at …

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Therapeutic help now available for pathological shopping addicts - Monsters and Critics

Hamburg - Are you an oniomaniac - a shopping addict? Up to 10 per cent of all consumers in Western industrialized countries are addicted to shopping to some degree, according to German researchers, who say they have developed the first anti-shopping …

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Rocket science? Easy with a welder - New Zealand Herald

If someone told Lachlan Matchett rocket science was difficult, the East Otago High School pupil wasn’t listening. With nothing more than a few spare car parts and a borrowed welder, Lachlan, 17, built a jet engine in his parents’ garden shed. He …

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Live shark stolen from garden shed - MSN UK News

A live shark was stolen from a shed, police said. The marble shark - one half of the only breeding pair in the UK - was taken from a garden in Farnborough, Hampshire, over the weekend. The 2ft-long female mottled brown shark was kept in an aquarium …

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