Society

Jesus wants to have a quiet one for his birthday this year

OUR Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ has told friends he is not really feeling his birthday this year and is probably just going to stay in.

Worst part of Christmas in London is singing chimney sweeps on every corner

LONDONERS have confirmed the bloody lights and Christmas markets are bad enough, but the soot-covered chimney sweeps performing upbeat musical numbers are worse.

Awkwardly tapping the wrong bit of the contactless card reader to stay, say banks

BANKS have confirmed that repeatedly tapping the wrong bit of the contactless card reader before angrily entering your PIN will not change.

Wearing these antlers fills me with shame, dog confesses

A PET dog has admitted the annual period where he is forced to wear antlers to be a miniature canine reindeer haunts him for the rest of the year.

The nativity, as retold by a private school production

TO begin with, I should have been Joseph. But my father’s endowment is apparently less deserving than Barnaby Haversham-Finch’s grandfather donating the full cost of the new stables.

Enforcement officers fine man £250 for shedding skin cells

COUNCIL enforcement officers have fined a man £250 for ‘openly and wantonly’ shedding skin cells in a lay-by.

Everything wrong with woman's life blamed on men

A WOMAN is confident that every failure or shortcoming in her existence is ultimately the fault of men.

We ask you: are you sad you may never be called for jury service?

THE government plans to limit jury trials to offences with a three-year minimum sentence. Have they snatched away your jury service dream?

Why your house is probably worth £2m but you haven't realised it

LABOUR have imposed a mansion tax on houses worth more than £2 million. Not bothered? That’s because you probably don’t realise your house is worth that much.