London: Virgin Atlantic is all set to offer in-flight mobile access to its passengers, which will make it the first British airline to provide such a service. The service will initially start on Virgin's new Airbus A330 planes flying from London to New York, with passengers being able to make phone calls, send texts and have web access. The service will soon be available on 17 planes on at least 10 routes by the end of the year. Aeromobile, which is partly owned

London: There are tens of thousands of 'male mums' in Britain, according to mistaken NHS statistics. The finding, far from being a one-off, is just one of a range of bizarre results discovered by doctors who have examined NHS hospital data. They discovered that 17,000 men were recorded as having been admitted to hospital for obstetric services - a specialisation for pregnant women and their babies - and 8,000 to see a gynaecologist; while another 20,000 apparently n

London: A brave shopkeeper in Britain prevented a robbery in his shop with the help of a wooden stick after an armed man burst into his shop and threatened to shoot him. The robber walked into the Loughborough Road newsagents, in Leicester city, Thursday evening when Kapil Vaghela, 29, and his fiancee Trisha Patel were alone at the shop. The couple were terrified to see the masked robber bursting into their shop. He fired three shots at them. But Kapil picked up a w

London : An elderly Briton who spent over 400,000 pounds (about USD 635,000) on prostitutes has been jailed as he resorted to stealing to support his sex-addiction. Deryck Green, 66, who was employed as Postal clerk, stole 28,000 pounds from the sub-post office where he worked and which his wife managed. He spent it on prostitutes costing up to 160 pounds-an-hour. Green turned to crime to fund his addiction after blowing around 305,000 pounds after selling his home for hook

London: More than half of Britain skips breakfast and a third of them regularly go without lunch, a new study has revealed. One in four will pick at snacks at work and only sit down for a meal in the evening. On an average people in UK only eat 11 full meals a week, many of them microwaved because they are too busy or too lazy to cook. A quarter of them manage just two properly cooked meals a week. "The days of eating three square meals appear to be beh

London: In a bizarre order issued by the authorities, delivery truck drivers have been asked to avoid whistling or shouting while making deliveries late at night during the London Olympics to avoid causing disruption to citizens. The Transport for London department issued a code of conduct Monday for drivers who will be working late at night and in the early morning hours to deliver supplies during the Olympics, Xinhua reported. The code urged drivers not to whistle to get