Society

BANKS have confirmed that repeatedly tapping the wrong bit of the contactless card reader before angrily entering your PIN will not change.

A PET dog has admitted the annual period where he is forced to wear antlers to be a miniature canine reindeer haunts him for the rest of the year.

TO begin with, I should have been Joseph. But my father’s endowment is apparently less deserving than Barnaby Haversham-Finch’s grandfather donating the full cost of the new stables.

COUNCIL enforcement officers have fined a man £250 for ‘openly and wantonly’ shedding skin cells in a lay-by.

A WOMAN is confident that every failure or shortcoming in her existence is ultimately the fault of men.

THE government plans to limit jury trials to offences with a three-year minimum sentence. Have they snatched away your jury service dream?

LABOUR have imposed a mansion tax on houses worth more than £2 million. Not bothered? That’s because you probably don’t realise your house is worth that much.

YESTERDAY saw the government abandon the two-child benefit cap, but does that mean you should start indulging in frantic reproduction? Find out with this guide.

A WOMAN who told a joke at the expense of men has been instructed to imagine a bizarre fantasy world where instead women were the butt of cruel jibes.