Nordic Rock is mined from ancient Swedish pollution-free base rock. It is the purest way of cooling your drink – literally ‘on the rocks’. Stone does not melt, which means no unclean water in your glass. They are also reusable making them very eco-friendly.
Expected to step on the block, so to speak, of Stern’s Sirius radio studio is a San Diego woman who says she wants to sell her maidenhood to pay her college tuition.
“I don’t have a moral dilemma with it,” says the pretty brunette, who’s using the pseudonym of Natalie Dylan “for safety reasons.”
“We live in a capitalist society,” she tells us. “Why shouldn’t I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?”
There won’t be any questions about Dylan’s virtue: The lass says she’s willing to submit to a polygraph test and a gynecological exam to confirm her virginity.
According to Dylan, she and her sister were forced into the skin trade partly because their stepfather allegedly took out student loans in their names without their permission, leaving them unable to finance their education.
She says she’s already earned her bachelor’s degree in women’s studies at Sacramento State and that in January she’ll start her master’s work in marriage and family therapy there. She hopes to get a doctorate.
Meanwhile, her mother, a “conservative” fourth-grade teacher, doesn’t approve of what she’s doing, “but she supports me.”
Bella, a Labrador cross, was bought by David Richardson from the RSPCA, 26 years ago when she was three years old.
She had lived with Mr Richardson, 76, and his partner Daisy, 81, since 1982 in Clay Cross, Derbyshire.
But she was put down on Saturday following a heart attack while on holiday with the couple.
Until Bella the record for the oldest dog was held by Butch, a 28-year-old from America who died in 2003, according to the Guinness World Records. Officially, the oldest ever dog was Bluey, a sheepdog from Australia, who lived to 29.
A 12-year-old has been taken to hospital with burns after blowing up a petrol can while breaking wind.
The boy was attempting to set fire to his farts as part of a competition against his cousin in the garden of a house in Tipton when the accident occurred.
Fire fighters were called to the address but the small blaze had already burned itself out when the crew arrived.
Officers administered first aid until an ambulance arrived.
The victim was taken to Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley suffering from 18 per cent burns to the backs of his legs and his thumb.
Watch commander Paul Harpin, from Tipton station, said it was the first time he had been called out to deal with such an incident.
I’m sure most parents are proud when their kid makes the paper, but probably not this time.