en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:08:25 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Caitlin Moran Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:01:13 GMT 2010-02-08T07:03:44Z A woman is taking Simon Cowell, and his Britain’s Got Talent show, to a tribunal. For many, this was all one needed to know about the story before giving a heartfelt sigh, sitting back in an easy chair and shouting: “Bring Mummy a bakewell tart, darling! She has had good news — news that she wishes to augment with a tot of marzipan! Cowell’s going DOWN!” Should you have wished to read on, however — maybe you had a six-pack of individual tarts, and wanted to make a morning of it — you would have learned that the woman in question is Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai, who auditioned for the show in May last year. Caitlin Moran Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:01:59 GMT 2010-01-22T03:44:00Z A sad thing happened in the snow last week. Even sadder than when The Boy comes down in the morning and finds that The Snowman has melted, and all that’s left is a hat and a tangerine, oh God. A group of policemen in Boars Hill, Oxford, went out into the snow and — having found a suitable incline — used their riot shields as sledges. “Hold on to the straps!” one policeman warns another, as he launches himself. He then slaloms 400 yards downhill, looking like a penguin in a flouro-tabard and sensible boots. By the bottom he has picked up such velocity that he sails right over a potentially neck-breaky ditch. It’s a lovely run. Caitlin Moran Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:01:58 GMT 2010-01-15T03:53:11Z New year is when the Oxford English Dictionary releases the list of words that made it into its next edition — an event that, for word-nerds, is the equivalent of finding out who has made it into the England team.