The news in brief 1st November 2014

The news in brief:

We haven’t forgotten the Virgin Galactic story – we’re in this for the shits and giggles and there’s nothing funny about that.

Monopoly is NOT an accurate representation of real life

Man absconds with bank’s money

School rules a bit heavy-handed

News creates panic about routine activity

Newsflash: cartoons are NOT meant to be accurate representation of real life

Newspaper enjoys a bit of cyberbullying

Freedom is the right of all sentient being – except during the Poppy Appeal, apparently

Irony lost on commentators

News can’t make its mind up about the environment…

Pro tip: Looking like Hitler doesn’t actually make you like Hitler

Man’s inhumanity to kitty cats continues apace

Blurry shapes probably not a ghost

Religion’s bodycount continues to mount - and it’s not just the fatalities that are utterly tragic…

Ebola!

Labour promises to make politics more like Star Wars

Okay – meat is now good for you – get it in before they change their minds again

Study states the obvious: people generally like sex

Teaching a toddler to ‘twerk’ is probably not a Good Idea

Diana Watch 2014: royal writer dredges up stories about mother of two who died more than 17 years ago…   

Man seems destined to not make it across the ocean

Nudes in brief: Jodie Marsh (nearly)

And finally: what on earth made ‘clambering onto a dead whale’ seem like a good idea?

Reading the news so you don’t have to…