Today we present a new selection of spoof breaking news, brought to you by the Stirring Trouble team.Breaking News: Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, maker of Viagra, promises a free erection to every Irishman who will vote ‘yes’ in the forthcoming referendum on the EU Lisbon treaty. Breaking News: Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen, the face of the ‘Yes’ campaign in the referendum on the Lisbon treaty, says that just because he looks like an alcoholic does not mean that he IS [...]

The BBC should ask me to replace Jonathan Ross and host BBC1′s evening chat show on Friday evenings. Why? Because I am much better doiung comedy stuff, I am more intelligent and I have things to say that would interest viewers. Ross has been getting away with his mediocre performances for too long. The BBC should be ashamed that it is using some third-rate entertainer to host a programme at prime time on Friday. His sense of humour is primitive [...]

Martin McCauley writes: The military parade marking the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on October 1 will be the greatest and most impressive ever assembled. The Chinese press has reported already that 52 new weapons systems will be on display on 30 vehicles and in 12 air formations. New uniforms will be worn and newly painted equipment will be on show. The parade will include elements of all Chinese forces, not merely the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). [...]

Today we present a new selection of spoof breaking news, brought to you by the Stirring Trouble team.Breaking News: International Union of Child Molesters says that film director Roman Polanski is a victim of injustice. He did what any member of our union would have done in his position, IUCM says. Breaking News: European Union comes out with a report on the war between Russia and Georgia last year and insists that it needs to see an exact rerun of [...]

R.F.Wilson writes: Let me tell you something about left-wing parties: it has always been the case that when socialists were in power in Europe, sensible economics and fiscal discipline were thrown out of the window, the interests of the majority of people were ignored, poverty always got worse and crime levels went through the roof. And it was only once elections would approach that these left-wing hypocrites would start to declare their readiness to improve the economy, help the sick [...]

Today we present another selection of breaking news items from the Stirring Trouble team. Makes life a bit easier on a Monday.Breaking News: International Union of Child Molesters denounces the arrest of famous film director Roman Polanski in Switzerland as barbaric and inhumane. Breaking News: Roman Polanski says that as paedophiles are a minority he considers himself to be a victim of racism. Breaking News: Hollywood issues a statement saying that it stands firmly behind arrested film director Roman Polanski. [...]

Today we present another selection of breaking news items from the Stirring Trouble team. Great stuff to read on a Sunday. Breaking News: U.S. President, Barack Obama, reveals that his hugely successful campaign slogan ‘Yes we can’ has been quietly ditched in favour of the slogan ‘Yes we can, but not now.’ Breaking News: The people of Pittsburgh, the city that hosted the G20 summit, admit that they were impressed by the way world leaders enjoyed themselves greatly while deciding [...]

R. F. Wilson writes: Ian Fleming, begetter of James Bond, wrote that ‘all motorists are vain about their cars.’  The ex-Reuters and The Sunday Times man, known in Fleet Street as ‘Lady Rothermere’s Fan’, due to his affair with the wife of Lord Rothermere (proprietor of the paper), was also a fancier of fast cars. Fleming first exceeded 100 mph, reverentially known in the language at the time as ‘the ton’, in the cockpit of a borrowed Bugatti. Yet it [...]

R.F.Wilson writes: This has got to be some sort of a joke: and Indian lunar satellite, Chandrayaan-1, sensationally spots ‘traces of water’ on the Moon and all the scientific community immediately goes berserk, demanding that more money is spent on space exploration. What is even more puzzling is that out of nowhere come claims that two American space probes have also picked up traces of water in the Moon’s vicinity, one earlier this year and the other several years ago. [...]

Thomas Mathew writes: I have already drawn the attention of our readers to the scandalously high rates of interest being advertised in our national newspapers by loan sharks. Two weeks ago the record for the highest rate of APR was held by PAYDAY UK at 1737 per cent. However, this record has not just been beaten, it has been smashed. This morning I received an unsolicited e-mail from another firm called WONGA. In large type were the words APPLY NOW! [...]