Segway polo could only be described as a niche sport, invented by technology workers in Silicon Valley in the United States around 2003 - where a number of teams are still playing. The sport began when two Segway owners, Jonathan VanClute and Alex Ko, fashioned makeshift mallets from PVC piping and used them to hit a miniature beach ball in the park.
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Putin’s fish is big... but I’ve got a whopper: Battle of the rod-swinging rulers as President of Belarus lands 125lb catfish in Chernobyl exclusion zone
Thursday 01 August 2013
In a rod-swinging contest between hard-man rulers, Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, has outdone Russia’s Vladimir Putin by reeling in a real-life Blinky, the radioactive fish of The Simpsons fame.
'It was this big' Really? Russia thinks there's something fishy about Putin's 26 pound pike
Monday 29 July 2013
'This pike weighs no more than 26.5 pounds' one commentator noted. 'Unless it swallowed a bar of gold'
Rising water temperatures turn lobsters into cannibals
Friday 26 July 2013
Lobster cannibalism in the wild has been caught on camera for the first time as water temperatures in Maine reach a century high
Two Britons killed by helicopter blades on luxury fishing trip in Russia
Sunday 21 July 2013
Men named by the Foreign Office as Mark Robertson and Rupert Beaumont
Never downloaded, never used: The deathly rise of the lurking ‘zombie app’
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Most apps loiter like decommissioned nuclear reactors on Apple’s servers
The Fish & Chip Shop, 189 Upper Street, Islington, London
Saturday 15 June 2013
Des McDonald's name is legendary in the food business – the legends in question being Midas and Croesus. When Nick Lander published The Art of the Restaurateur last year, McDonald was one of its stars. An Irish baker's son, he opened two restaurants in the City of London by the age of 22 and become executive chef of Caprice Holdings, founded by Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, the chaps who triumphantly revamped The Ivy, Scotts of Mayfair, Le Caprice and J Sheekey.
The future home: self-sufficient in meat, fish, vegetables and fruit
Monday 10 June 2013
An experiment in self-sufficiency will transform a previously derelict Manchester printworks according to so-called vertical urban farming techniques
Trout of order: Waitrose staff refuse to fillet fish for customer... because it was too slippery
Friday 07 June 2013
Customer told by supervisor that fish was too slippery to fillet
Julian Knight: Pension scheme has become an empty NEST
Saturday 01 June 2013
Nine months after it was set up, the national savings trust has attracted just 100,000 savers
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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