Shakespeare is wicked, innit?

THE WORK of one of the nations literary greats has been re-written in street slang.

Martin Baum, 48, of Verwood, Dorset, was helped by his 13-year-old son Josh to translate the work of William Shakespeare into street talk as he believes this will be more accessible to the youth of today.

The work includes Romeo and His Fit Bitch Jools, Macbeff, Richard de Fird and To Be Or Not To Be, Innit.

 Hamlet, arguably one of Shakespeare’s best known plays begins: “Dere was somefing minging in de state of Denmark.”

Five things…to do to save the Earth

BY ROBYN CLARE SCOTT – robyn@ragazine.co.uk

1. Turn lights off when you leave the room.

Ok this may be completely obvious but so many people forget to do it and unless you have a pathological fear of the dark you’ve really got no excuse. If the light stays on, it keeps using electricity which means power plants burn through more fuel, releasing carbon dioxide into atmosphere. This adds to the green house effect and makes the Earth get all hot and bothered.

Squirrel population turns to the dark side

THE MUTANT black squirrel has arrived and is spreading across parts of England, to give the red and grey squirrels some real competition.

While the grey squirrel has always ruled the roost, since its introduction into Britain from America in the 1870’s, its starting to come under threat from the fiercer, faster and more competitive black squirrel.

While they may look cute and adorable they are a force to be reckoned with in the squirrel world. 

Oil Trouble in Nigeria continues

MILITANTS in southern Nigeria have claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on refinery’s after announcing they had sabotaged another pipe line.

 

The fourth such attack in the past week, it has promoted a number of workers for the oil producer ExxonMobil, to strike in fear of their safety.

  

N.Y Mercantile Exchange traders have reacted to the events sending oil prices skyrocketing amid concerns over supply from Nigeria.

 

ExxonMobil, who have a daily output of around 2 million barrels of crude oil a day, have not specified how much production has been lost due to the sabotage and strikes.

 

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, said its fighters hit a pipeline late Thursday in southern Rivers State, bringing to four the number of pipelines the group claims it has blown up in the past week.

 

The group said in a statement that the pipeline belongs to a Royal Dutch Shell joint venture. A Shell spokesman had no immediate comment on Friday.