Rabbit Thought of the Day

Our troops in Iraq might not have enough armoured vehicles -- but Tom Cruise does. The Mission: Impossible star has made his entire fleet of cars -- including a Porsche 911 Turbo and a tricked out SUV -- bulletproof and bomb Proof, according to the upcoming issue of In Touch Weekly.

“Tom’s vehicles look perfectly normal, but in reality they are more like armoured trucks,” a Hollywood insider told the magazine. “He really, really loves his cars and he can afford the best.”

A barmaid spoke of her disbelief after receiving a £90 million electricity bill.

Alison Turner, 50, of Cambridge, was stunned when the demand from npower arrived through the post.

The mother-of-two, who lives alone in a one-bedroom flat, normally spends about £20 every two weeks to top up her pre-payment electric meter. An npower spokesman said it was "a human error".

Reuben Frost of Malden Essex is celebrating the birthday of his boat which has reached the grand old age of 200. Boadicea a 12tron 30’ fishing smack was built in West Mersea, Essex in 1808. It is though to be the oldest boat in the world that is still used for sailing.

Mr Frost has the documentation detailing the dozen owners over the last two centuries.

"During the spring and summer Boadicea can be found regularly racing against other smacks and classic yachts and if there is a stiff breeze we can hold our own," said Mr Frost. "During the autumn we still drift net for herring."

Mr Frost said the boat, which was built by James Williamson of Maldon, Essex, had been repaired and renovated many times and had an engine fitted in the 1970s. He now hoped to use her as a charter boat.

"I think she's survived so long because she's always been loved," he said.

People will any thing for cash, this is article just published on the BBC’s website.

Forty people have been charged over an alleged £5.3m insurance fraud after a two-year investigation by Bedfordshire Police and the Insurance Fraud Bureau. Those charged are accused of making false insurance claims following staged vehicle collisions.

The arrests were made during dawn raids by police in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Berkshire. Twenty-six defendants are due to appear at Luton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday and Wednesday on a range of charges.

These include conspiracy to defraud, possession of criminal property, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and obtaining, or attempting to obtain, a money transfer by deception. Fourteen other people are expected to appear before Luton Magistrates on 24 July.

The police operation called Exhort started in May 2006 and centred on Luton.

It relates to an insurance fraud sometimes known as "cash for crash".

A petrol station in Devon has increased its petrol prices to £1.99 a litre (£9 a gallon). The Foxhayes station at Exwick, near Exeter, said it had put all petrol and diesel prices up to conserve stocks and stop panic buying.

In reality it’s just to make money, people need to put petrol for work or for leisure but this is just profiteering. In the long run he will probably lose his customers and who can blame them. If I lived in the area I would never use his service station ever again. There should be law against this type of thing.

The bodies of five British soldiers from one regiment who were killed in Afghanistan have been flown to the UK. They arrived at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire for a repatriation ceremony.

Ptes Cuthbertson, Murray and Gamble were also on foot patrol, on Sunday 8 June, when they were targeted by a single suicide bomber. On Friday the garrison town of Colchester paid tribute to the five dead. Paras from the 2nd Battalion marched through the town's High Street to applause from watching shoppers. Crowds gathered outside the town hall and held a two-minute silence, while a Union flag flew at half-mast.

Was driving in this morning and managed to see two shell petrol tankers one the road. The strike is over and talks are still ongoing to resolve the dispute. I filled up last night putting in just 45 litres and I never saw any problems or shortages at the pumps.