Are you a christmas pudding?
If you're constantly overlooked at work whilst your less qualified colleagues land the prime positions, it could be because you're a christmas pudding. Take this isssue's fig questionnaire and find out for sure..(more)

Birmingham rap pioneers 'Zoid and Krom' are back with a new album, web site, and video
SELLY OAK: BIRMINGHAM - The third best rap group in South-Central Birmingham (South Central) release their new album "Back In The Time When The Beats Were Fresh", recorded at Selly Oak's legendary Rich Bitch studios (more)

Soft-rock compilation eschews 'leather and lace' juxtaposition
HIGH WYCOMBE - The publishers of a new compilation CD featuring 'Powerful Epics From The Men And Women Of Soft Rock' have surprised the music industry by looking beyond the juxtaposition of the words 'leather' and 'lace', for its title.

Speaking at the annual Kerrang! awards, Grant White, Managing Director of Mullet Records, explained that he was attempting to "Drag the soft-rock compilation concept into the new millennium. I want to move Mullet Records away from the whole 'Leather and Lace' idea. I did toy with the titles 'Ice and Fire', 'Heart and Soul', and for a brief period, 'Chaos and Cleavage' - but then I said to myself 'Grant - it's not 1986 anymore', and realised that it was time to move on." White's new album, 'Now That's What I Call An Appalling Collection of Cock-Rock and Power Ballads", is out on Monday.

Rainbow Trout voted the 'Britain's Cheekiest Fish'
ASHBY DE-LA-ZOUCH It was an amazing evening for the popular pink-and-red streaked salmonid at last week's National Fish Awards, during which the rainbow trout scooped awards in both fresh and salt water divisions, the first time any fish has received awards in both codes.

"I always thought that I had potential in the 'Cheekiest Fish' category", Oncorhynchus mykiss modestly remarked at a lavish backstage party thrown in Sir ELton John's diamond encrusted septic tank, "but to win 'Best Thunniform locomotion', an event that's been dominated by the saltwater boys for as long as I can remember, was truly unexpected". In an emotional speech, the stream dwelling actinopterygius thanked "My parents, my agent, and every nameless, faceless fish of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened."