QUIRKY WORLD ... Boris surprises with version of Jessie J song ‘Bang Bang’
The Tory politician recited the lyrics to the chart-topping song as he appeared as a guest on the Capital breakfast show.
Boris J was urged to emulate Jessie by presenters Dave Berry and Lisa Snowdon, as listeners heard him tackle lines such as: “Bang bang, all over you, I’ll let you have it, crikey.”
He had already heard a performance by the original singer, who played the tune during her appearance at the radio station’s Jingle Bell Ball over the weekend.
Hitting a patrol car isn’t the best way to end a traffic stop, but it worked out for one 87-year-old Nevada woman rushing to see her ailing son 350 miles away in Utah.
Four Utah Highway Patrol troopers ferried Helen “Skeeter” Smith across Utah, each driving her part of the way to an Ogden hospital where her son was being treated for an unnamed condition.
The Panaca, Nevada, woman was pulled over for driving too closely to Trooper Jeff Jones’ patrol car in the central Utah town of Fillmore.
“He was all nice,” Smith said. “Oh, yeah. He was just doing his job.”
Jones let her go with a warning. But as Smith drove away, she accidently put her car in reverse and hit his patrol car.
She told him where she was going while they dealt with the dent.
Smith said her son Randy isn’t doing well, but she’s glad to be with him for treatment.
For the second time in eight months, a teenage girl in Waimanalo awoke to find a strange man asleep in her home.
In May, the girl spotted a man she didn’t recognise on the second bed in her bedroom. On Saturday, she stepped into the living room to see another stranger asleep on the couch, KHON-TV reported.
“I don’t understand why it keeps happening to me and my family,” said Donald Crummer, the girl’s father.
Crummer was at workSaturday morning when he received a call from police.
He said his daughter woke up at 9:30, walked out in the front room and saw the man, grabbed a stick used in martial arts and barricaded herself in the bedroom, then called 911.
The case in May made headlines because it took four 911 calls and 45 minutes for an officer to arrive at their doorstep. Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha last month apologised for the delayed response and promised an investigation.
Crummer’s daughter didn’t have to wait long for an officer this time. An officer arrived in three minutes, he said.
John Fritz pleaded no contest to unauthorised entry in the first case and will be sentenced next month. Police on Saturday took a 21-year-old man into custody.
Ever wondered what are the Queen’s favourite flowers? Alan Titchmarsh has a few hints – nothing too exotic.
The green-fingered TV star has filmed a documentary in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, looking at the way the “green lung and oasis in the middle of the city” changes through the seasons.
A US postal worker accused of stealing as many as 2,000 pieces of mail said she did so out of boredom.
Sharon Berrien is accused of pocketing any cash from the post and dumping the leftovers.
She was charged with stealing mail while working at a Detroit mail processing centre.
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