This week’s What If Friday is all about beauty! Audrey Hepburn, a rare beauty would she have been less beautiful if she had prosthetic limbs? If she were to have lost half of her legs half way through her career would she have continued to work? If someone is missing a limb does it make…
A number of designers & architects have been tested for a unique gene that scientists say can account for a lack of ‘common sense’ intelligence. Before now the idea of a gene that can account for this type of ‘Intelligence Gene Marker’ has been regarded as a spurious theory. But Neurologists in the little known…
Whether you’re in a relationship or single, disabled or able bodied, youthful and innocent or old and cynical, here are some dos and don’ts for getting through Valentine’s Day in one piece! Do Celebrate Valentine’s Day Whatever it may be – a day on which to celebrate the nature and meaning of love and compassion…
Bringing the retro boom into to the wheelchair market, the fabulous KPII is a brand new wheelchair with its roots very much in the past. Hailed as the first ever vintage wheelchair, the KPII is inspired by, and based on, the model used by King Philip of Spain, the man generally considered to have been…
To be able to invent, you need to be able to bring creativity and imagination together with logic and reason. These are all qualities that we like to think that we possess, but we’ve found some creations that are indicative of inventors who had a severely misguided sense of their own abilities. They’re a wide…
After weeks of bitter dispute, Klaus vs. The Little Laplanders, the littlest biggest court case in the history of the North Pole, has ruled in favour of the elves of Santa’s workshop. The shocking result is this: Christmas 2013 is cancelled. The legal battle began this June when the elves decided that they had simply…
At BBS we try to be impartial when it comes to Political Issues, however a piece of news on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) has come to light following a chance meeting in a pub near the Houses of Commons. The BBC reported on 26th October: Personal Independence Payments will replace Disability Living Allowance only for…
A number of students from the University of Slough were forcibly removed from a Halloween party, at their halls of residence, last weekend for wearing ‘inappropriate’ costumes. But the strange thing is, they weren’t kicked out for wearing too little clothing, dressing as villainous historical characters, Nazis, or anybody recently deceased. The students dressed as…
Run by A. Horne and Ted House the Hotel Bran UK is unfortunately a shadow of the grand castle it is said to have once been. However, my stay there was a little bit of an adventure. I was told by an old old friend that I should hurry there to check it out. “It’s…