So many people have expressed their intention to swim the Channel this year that there is talk of abandoning the tunnel scheme as likely to prove unprofitable.
After knocking a man down with an iron bar at Shoreditch, and being asked by the victim why he did it, the assailant again knocked him down. Really this is carrying things too far. After all, politeness costs nothing.
It appears that the Burglars' Trade Union, not to be outdone, are about to put in a demand for shorter sentences.
"Single women," says a scientific journal, "live on an average ten years longer than married women." After reading this statement, an Irishman has issued a warning against the habit of marrying single women.
Grimsby is to have a flag day for the local hospitals. It is not known who first gave them the idea of a flag day.