I reckon you should buy me a pint – I’ve just won a quiz!

I reckon you should buy me a pint – I’ve just won a quiz!

Did you happen to read the recent news report about banning mobile phones from pub quizzes? According to a reporter from the BBC “The integrity of pub quizzes used to be beyond question, but the advent of text messaging in the late 1990s has heralded an era of cheating. Otherwise honest people, corrupted by a combination of alcohol and the desire to win promotional t-shirts, are now reduced to...

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The day “The News” changed forever

The day “The News” changed forever

On January 15th 2009 an event occurred that changed history forever, though at the time very few people realised it. It was the day US Airways Flight 1549, a scheduled commercial passenger flight left New York City to fly to Charlotte, North Carolina as it had done many times before. Three minutes after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport the plane struck a flock of Canada Geese while still climbing...

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