Society

INSPIRING Melanie Phillips has overcome potentially debilitating horribleness to pen an article about the Paralympics.

BORIS Johnson is to be carried through London on a golden sedan chair carried by Bradley Wiggins, Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Ellie Simmonds.

IN a move to kick start the economy, Heathrow Airport will be extended to cover everything between Ipswich and Portsmouth.

THE disability benefits system will be replaced by medals for things like shutting up and getting on with it, it has emerged.

PUPILS protesting GCSE results have been asked to consider whether they might get better exam results if they learn more things.

POT smokers generally have more brain cells than people who like lager, it has been claimed.

AN ESSEX man had admitted the 'lion' he saw near his home was actually a design on the wrapper of a chocolate bar.

A BOOK advising married women to have affairs has sparked renewed interest in really bad advice.

LONDON Underground is to introduce special carriages where racists can share their hatred on the way to work.

PARENTS want their children to be force fed the classics of English literature until it makes them seriously ill, a survey has shown.