Source: BBC News

A Chav has spent five times as much on modifications to his car as the vehicle cost him in an attempt to make it “the best-looking car in the country” .

Ian Williams, from Blackwood, South Wales, has spent £16,000 on modifications to his N-registration Vauxhall Corsa in three years. The car itself cost just £3,000 when he bought it.

“It’s about credibility. I want my Corsa to be the best-looking in the country … I work on it most nights – if I’m not cleaning it, I’m doing something else to it.”

I don’t need to add any witty comments here. 😎

A case of life imitating art? 🙄

Compare and contrast: The Ring Movie & Panic at Nigerian ‘killer calls’

Nigerian mobile phone users have been anxiously checking who is calling them before answering them in recent days.

A rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain “killer numbers” then one will die immediately.

Your national football team is crap, so why not terrorise a bunch of innocent people to make up for it? Yes, that makes total sense – to the English. Your parents must be *so* proud!

Source: BBC News

Portugal fans had to be led to safety after more than 300 people began throwing missiles at a Norfolk pub following England’s Euro 2004 defeat.

The landlord of the pub, Sergio Quieros, said the damage to trade and the premises made it almost impossible for him to stay in the UK. He said: “I don’t know if I will run the pub anymore. It’s a shame because we have 6,000 Portuguese in Thetford. Maybe I’ll go back to Portugal and stay there.”

I don’t blame you Sergio, mind if I join you?

Oh great, so 2,648 emails and the web interface will only display up to 30 messages per page, so that’s 90 pages of spam to trawl through just to delete it all.

It wouldn’t be so bad if even some of it was real email, but I haven’t ever used the damn address! Nice job Orange 😕

Source: BBC News

Poland must pay compensation to a man whose family was forced from its home after World War II, a European court has ruled.

The European Court of Human Rights said 60-year-old Jerzy Broniowski should be paid 12,000 euros (£8,000).

Mr Broniowski’s grandmother lost her home after the war when Poland’s border shifted westwards. In its ruling, the Strasbourg-based court said Poland had violated the European Convention of Human Rights. It also said the problem underlying the violation of Mr Broniowski’s human rights was likely to generate a large number of similar cases. The Polish state has already compensated the majority of expellees since they lost their homes at the end of the war.

In January this year a new law wrote off the state’s obligations to the remaining claimants, but about 80,000 people say they are still entitled to compensation – estimated at more than 2bn euros (£1.3bn). Those people are the descendants of the 1.2 million people forced to leave their homes at the end of World War II when a large strip of eastern Poland suddenly found itself in the Soviet Union.

Mr Broniowski’s grandmother was one of those people. She lost her home in what was then the Lwow in Poland and what is now Lviv in western Ukraine. At Yalta, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill had agreed to shift Poland’s eastern frontier hundreds of kilometres westwards to the Curzon Line. In return, Poland got a large swathe of Germany.

For that reason, private property restitution is a particularly sensitive and complex issue in Poland. Not only were Poles expelled, but so were millions of Germans. On top of that are the large number of claims by descendants of Jews, murdered in the Nazi extermination camps, many of which were located in Poland.

Currently Poland has no legislation which deals with property restitution claims. This latest ruling is likely to add to the pressure to adopt some.