In today's news...

       'No news is good news' some say. And if it is news about the plane-crash in the Andes and your mother-in-law was on board the flight then I can agree with the previous statement. However, at the moment, no news is bad news for me. In my cooped up situation as I battle with my coursework, the news is all that is connecting me to the outside world!!! However, I shall do my best. (If you are wondering, I have used the word 'news' 7 times. 8 if you count the title.).

Snow gives Scottish economy a boost

       What? Because they've just changed their currency to snow and now everyone is bloody rich? The only way the Scot's economy will ever be boosted is if England gets an economic boom OR there is an uprising in Scotland and they take back all of their oil. But then of course they'd just be back in 20 years having used up all the oil in the
production of irn bru.
        Apparently though, the reason for the so called boost is that Cairngorm Mountain has received its best covering of snow in years - therefore it has attracted lots of people going out to enjoy the slopes.
       That's not an economic boost. Calling some extra people going skiing an 'economic boost' is like calling 'Celebrity Wipeout' the Holocaust. Or less controversially, labelling weed as a Class B drug.
       

Aside from that though, I did enjoy seeing some of the other headlines today.

England went with 'Afghan bomb kills Mirror reporter' and 'Two charged after Heathrow alert'. Ireland went with  'Concern over prostate cancer test' and 'Iris Robinson receiving treatment'.

All very important issues.

Meanwhile, the main stories in Wales were 'Snow predicted overnight in Wales' and 'Warning to stay off frozen ponds'.