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Children paint to spread awareness about Commonwealth Games in Delhi

May 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 8 (ANI): Children took part in a painting competition here on Saturday with a focus on spreading awareness about the October 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The competition was organized by the Bungalow Road Jawahar Nagar Travellers” Association in the capital”s Kamla Nagar area.

Most of the paintings depicted sporting events of the Commonwealth Games.

“I am feeling very happy that Commonwealth Games are being held in Delhi this year. I feel that by participating in this painting competition, I would contribute in spreading Delhi”s and India”s name all over the world,” said Varun Sachdeva, a youth who participated in the event.”

“Basically, the idea is to spread awareness about the Commonwealth Games amongst the local people as this time, our government is organizing the Commonwealth Games,” said Surinder Sonic, the Chairman of the Association.

The mascot of the Commonwealth Games, Shera, was also present at the event. The 19th Commonwealth Games will be held in New Delhi in October this year. (ANI)

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Autistic artist plans to paint Sydney’s skyline

April 27, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Melbourne, April 27 (ANI): Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire, who has a unique ability to draw detailed city skylines from memory, has his sights set on Sydney.

The architectural artist was diagnosed with autism when he was three years old.

Wiltshire will arrive in Australia this week with hopes to produce a poster-size pen and ink drawing of the harbour city after examining its skyline for just 20 minutes, reports The Herald Sun.

The 36-year-old prodigy draws an image after taking helicopter ride to carefully look at the landscape in detail.

Wiltshire is quite excited about his visit to Australia, “I have never been there before. I wanted to go because it”s a nice, beautiful city. It”s going to be amazing,” he said.

Wiltshire has been invited to Sydney by Autism Spectrum Australia Aspect to mark Autism month. (ANI)

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Hafeez to play for Bangladeshi T20 team in Sharjah

March 8, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

Islamabad, Mar 8 (ANI): Pakistani all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez will be seen in action during Bangladesh’s T20 championship, the Port City League (PCL), scheduled to held in Sharjah later this year.

Hafeez will be playing for the Tigers, and will join fellow national team-mates Rana Naved, Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi and Abdul Razzaq amongst many others, who have been signed by different teams in the championship.

The Chittagong District Sports Association had inaugurated the PCL with eight teams in May 2009.

The tournament will see the participation of Chittagong Abahani, Chittagong Mohammedan, Chittagong Brothers Union, Chittagong Port and teams sponsored by four corporate houses: Ispahani Tea, Elite Paint, Partex and Gazi Tank. (ANI)

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Georgia Southern defeats Samford 83-77

March 6, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Antonio Hanson finished with a career-high 27 points to lead Georgia Southern to an 83-77 defeat of Samford on Monday night.

Hanson also nailed a career-high seven 3-pointers for the Eagles (8-21, 5-11 Southern Conference). Willie Powers added a double-double for Georgia Southern with 12 points and a career-high 11 assists, while Rory Spencer recorded four blocks to claim Georgia Southern’s single-season blocks record with 61.

Samford outscored the Eagles 36-14 in the paint, but Georgia Southern shot 15-for-28 from 3-point range (52.7 percent). Hanson shot 7-for-14 from beyond the arc.

Jeffrey Merritt scored 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead Samford (11-17, 5-11), and Bryan Friday added 15 points.

The Eagles picked up their first road win all season, with their last road victory coming on Jan. 15, 2009.

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Tibetans-in-exile at Leh react strongly to Chinese incursion

September 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Leh, Sep 15 (ANI): Members of the exiled Tibetan community at Leh reacted strongly to the recent Chinese trespass into India’s border areas in Ladakh region.

Such concern was expressed by functionaries of Tibetan fora based at Leh on Monday.

Warning India of Chinese designs, Kunzang Dechen, President of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Leh, termed China as the biggest threat to India.

“China these days is a great threat to India. I have seen through channels…that the Chinese are entering to the border but when Tibet is an independent nation, when Tibet is in between them, China has nothing to bother even. From Indian point of view, this must be settled through Tibet and not through China,” Deche added.

Sonam Gyatso, President of Tibetan Market Welfare Association, Leh, said that if the recent developments in Ladakh are ignored by the government of India, then Ladakh would also meet the same fate as Tibet.

“The one and half kilometres incursion by the Chinese troops in Ladakh…. written at the border area in Chinese ‘Republic of China’, all these will have a bad impact on Ladakh. In Pangong Lake, first they said 45 kilometres is under China and 45 kilometres is under India, which they (Chinese) have extended to 50 kilometres and if Ladakhi government and the authorities ignore this issue then whatever happened in Tibet, the same would happen in Ladakh also since Ladakh is a very isolated region,” Gyatso added.

Officials sources have said that Chinese troops entered nearly 1.5 kilometres into the Indian territory near Mount Gya, which is recognised as the international border by India and China, and painted the word ‘China’ in Cantonese on the boulders and rocks there with red spray paint. The incursions were reported from the area generally referred in the Chumar sector in east of Leh.

The 22,420 ft Mount Gya, also known as “fair princess of snow” by the Army is located at the tri-junction of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, and Tibet. Its boundary was marked during the British era and is regarded as International border by the two countries.

The border patrol discovered the red paint markings on various rocks and boulders along the Zulung La (pass) on July 31 and the Chinese had entered into the area and written “China” all over the place, the sources said.

Indian soldiers later erased the text, writing ‘India’ instead.

This is not the first such reported intrusion. On June 21 Chinese helicopters had violated the Indian air space along the Line of Actual Control in Chumar region. The Chinese troops also reportedly dropped expired tinned food packets in the area. (ANI)

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Deputy Commissioner Leh visits border areas

September 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Sep 11(ANI): The Deputy Commissioner of Leh, Ajit Kumar Sahu, had visited the site where the Chinese intrusion was reported recently. He is undertstood to be sending a report to the Government.

Defence authorities had disclosed that China had intruded into Indian territory on July 31 near Mount Gya, almost 1.5 km inside the Indian territory.

It was reported that Chinese intruders wrote the word “China” in Cantonese in red spray paint on the rocks and returned. A Chinese helicopter had also entered the Indian airspace.

The Minister for External Affairs, S.M. Krishna, had indicated yesterday that incidents do happen along the border and a machinery exists between India and China to discuss incidents of this nature. (ANI)

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Exhibition glorifying female Palestinian bombers generates outrage

September 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Jerusalem, Sep. 4 (ANI): Organizers of an art exhibition had to take down portraits depicting female Palestinian suicide bombers as the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus after the families of those killed or wounded in the attacks protested.

The controversial exhibition, which featured the work of artists Galina Bleich and Liliah Check, displayed a series of paintings of the bombers rendered to look like Renaissance-era portraits of Catholic saints, The Jerusalem Post reports.

The exhibition opened at Sokolov House press center in Tel Aviv agreed to take the portraits down, but another section – sand and dirt that had been taken from the scenes of the bombings and spread out across canvas – remained on the gallery’s walls.

The victims’ families expressed outrage over both the content of the exhibition and the fact that the headquarters of the Israeli Journalists Association, had agreed to show it.

Dalit Levy, whose 17-year-old stepdaughter Rachel was killed in a suicide bombing as she shopped at the Supersol supermarket in Jerusalem’s Kiryat Hayovel, arrived outside Sokolov House on Thursday afternoon with an Israeli flag draped over her shoulders.

“You want art?” she asked a group of reporters who had gathered around her. “Here’s art!” she said, before spilling a can of red paint next to a photograph of her stepdaughter and two memorial candles. “This is the blood of our children!”

Almagor, The Association for Terror Victims in Israel, also issued a stern response to the exhibit, and threatened to take legal action if the portraits were not taken down.

“We’ve contacted the attorney-general and asked him to take legal action against the exhibition’s representatives. Any action that strengthens or praises the murderous acts of terrorism is violating the law and hurting the general public by legitimising the murders,” he said.

Indor said his group was worried the artists would try to show the exhibit elsewhere.

“We’ve been in contact with the artists, and made it clear that we want them to add information to the material so that people will understand that this is not promoting terrorism, but against it,” he said. (ANI)

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Children paint 10 km long drawing in Coimbatore

August 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Coimbatore, Aug 21 (ANI): In an attempt to earn a position again in the Guinness and Limca book of world records, over 6000 children drew 10 kilometre long drawing in Coimbatore.

The children were given the topic of awareness on social issues out of which most of the children selected pollution, environment, ill effects of smoking and liquor consuming habits, and the present issue of swine flu awareness.

“I am very happy to stand before you on creating a Guinness and Limca world record of world’s longest drawing. The present world record for world’s longest drawing is 6,785.83 metres, which was made by us in the year 2008. We had made approximately the longest drawing for 10 kilometres and nearly about six thousand schools from all over India have participated in this event,” said Pradeep Kumar, organizer of the event.

He added that the children expressed their talent in drawing on the topic ‘awareness on social issues’.

The children were very proud and excited to be a part of the event.

“I am very happy to participate in this world’s longest drawing. I feel proud to be a part of this event,” said Ishwarya, a participant.

The organizers had informed the Guinness authorities as soon as the target was realized and are waiting for the Guinness certificates. (ANI)

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New X-ray technique reveals buried image in N. C. Wyeth’s painting

August 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 20 (ANI): A new X-ray imaging technique has for the first time in a century revealed unprecedented details of a painting hidden beneath another painting by famed American illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth, who is regarded as the greatest American illustrator of the 20th century.

While making a presentation at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) on Wednesday, Dr. Jennifer Mass said that the non-destructive look-beneath-the-surface method could reveal hidden images in hundreds of Old Master paintings, and other prized works of art.

In the study paper, the researcher noted that many great artists re-used canvases or covered paintings with other paintings, in order to save money on materials or to let the colours and shapes of a prior composition influence the next one.

Art historians believe that several of Wyeth’s most valued illustrations have been lost from view in that way, and one of them, depicting a dramatic fist fight, was published in a 1919 Everybody’s Magazine article titled ‘The Mildest Mannered Man’.

X-ray techniques previously used by other scientists suggested that Wyeth had covered the fight scene with another painting called ‘Family Portrait’, but they had not shown the the true image except in black and white reproductions.

The new instrument, called a confocal X-ray fluorescence microscope, was developed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) national X-ray facility.

The instrument reveals minute details in hidden paintings without removing paint samples. It shoots X-ray beams into a painting and then collects fluorescent X-ray “signals” given off by the chemicals in the various paint layers.

Scientists can link each signal to specific paint pigments.

In addition to revealing the original image, the method is providing new information on Wyeth’s materials and methods.

The same technique may ultimately reveal hidden images in paintings by other famed artists, the researchers say. (ANI)

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Churchill statue in Paris desecrated

August 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Paris, Aug.20 (ANI): French anti-war campaigners have desecrated a statue of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the anniversary of Paris’s liberation from Nazi rule.
The red paint attack on the bronze hands of the 250, 000 pound statue took place at night, The Telegraph reports.

The initials RH were also daubed on the statue, perhaps a reference to Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, who flew to Britain at the height of the Second World War to allegedly try and make peace.

Instead, Churchill had him thrown in prison in 1941, and the war continued for a further four years.

Some in France view Churchill as a war criminal himself because of his decision to scuttle the Vichy French fleet in Tunisia rather than let it fall into the hands of Third Reich forces.

He is also remembered for ordering the Allied bombing of occupied France, which led to thousands of French deaths.

But today there was nothing but widespread anger at the attack on the statue, which is situated next to the Champs Elysee.

“There are French people who are not great fans of Churchill, but the vast majority honour and respect him and will be disgusted by this cowardly attack,” said a spokesman for Paris city hall.

The statue was unveiled in 1998 by Queen Elizabeth. The 10 foot high statue by French sculptor Jean Cardot is made of bronze and weighs two-and-a-half tons.

Its plinth bears the words: “We shall never surrender.” (ANI)

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Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance

July 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 16 (ANI): A team of scientists is using laser light technology to create new forms of metal and enhance aircraft performance.

The laser light technology is being used by AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) funded researchers at the University of Rochester to help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices.

Dr. Chunlei Guo and his team of researchers for the project discovered a way to transform a shiny piece of metal into one that is pitch black, not by paint, but by using incredibly intense bursts of laser light.

The black metal created, absorbs all radiation that shines upon it.

“With the creation of the black metal, an entirely new class of material becomes available to us, which may open up a whole new horizon for various applications,” said Guo.

“To do this, we looked at the reverse process of light absorption or light radiation and transformed the incandescent lamp into a bulb that glows twice as brightly as a regular light source, while consuming the same amount of energy,” Guo added.

The key to creating this super-filament is an ultra-brief, ultra-intense beam of light called a femtosecond laser pulse.

The laser burst lasts only a few quadrillionths of a second.

That intense blast forces the surface of the metal to form nano-structures and micro-structures that dramatically alter how efficiently light can radiate from the filament.

In addition to increasing the brightness of a bulb, Guo’s process can be used to tune the color of the light as well.

In addition to this research, Guo and his team have been working on creating technology that may enable the Air Force to create an additional kind of metal.

They are able to do this by using the femtosecond laser once again to alter the surface of metal and create unique nano- and micro-scale structures on the metal.

The unique nano-structures which are created from the laser affect the way liquid molecules interact with metal molecules.

The liquid spreads out over the metal because the nano-structures attach themselves to the liquid’s molecules more readily than the liquid’s molecules bond to each other.

The end result is the formation of a new kind of metal that can cool the plane’s electronic brain and heat pumps and allow the craft to retain dominance over any enemy that is also in flight. (ANI)

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Air New Zealand cabin crew strip off for ‘Nothing to Hide’ safety video

July 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Jul 1 (ANI): Air New Zealand has come up with a novel way to get their passengers to pay attention to safety instructions – by having their flight attendants read them out wearing only body paint.

In the video, the body-painted crew cheerfully give the safety instructions, including where to stow baggage and how to use oxygen masks, reports News.com.au.

The airline launched the new in-flight safety videos on June 29 on their Boeing 737 domestic flights, and may expand them to other routes.

The release of the safety video comes on the back of the airline’s “Nothing to Hide” advertising campaign, which also showed cabin crew carrying out their duties wearing nothing more than body paint.

The crew’s “naughty parts” are blocked due to strategic camera angles in the three-and-a-half-minute safety video and 45-second commercial.

The “Nothing to Hide” commercial has been viewed around two million times on YouTube, and is the most-viewed clip to come out of New Zealand, Air New Zealand’s Marketing Manager told the New York Times. (ANI)

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9-year-old whiz-girl develops Bar Council of Kerala website

June 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kozhikode (Kerala), June 28 (ANI): A nine-year-old girl from Kozhikode district is being credited as the youngest web designer in the state for working out the website of the Bar Council of Kerala.

Shreelaxmi Suresh, the daughter of an advocate, has already designed and developed more than 10 websites.

The latest website launched by Shreelaxmi, www.barcouncilkerala.com is aimed at updating people on legal matters and helping poor people by providing free legal aid through the website.

“It was indeed great pleasure in seeing her (Shreelaxmi Suresh), interacting with her and really watching her performance in the IT field. There is no limit to what she can achieve. That’s what I feel and I am sure she will achieve glory and will cross all the world records in this field,” said Justice Kurien Joseph of the Kerala High Court.

When aged just eight, Shreelaxmi designed the official website of her own school apart from another website for deaf people and a Malyalam news website for kids.

“When I was small, I was so interested in doing computers. So when I was in LKG (Lower Kindergarten), I used to draw pictures and paint. Later I used to type alphabets on notepad. Then one day my dad showed me one news cut of a boy who designed a website of his own. So I thought that I too can do a website. My dad knows its basics. So I told him that I do want to study and my dad taught me web designing,” said Shreelaxmi Suresh.

She has won several National and International Awards for her excellence in web designing.

Sreelakshmi is the only member of the Association of American Webmasters, under the age of 18.

The Association of American Webmasters honoured her by giving their membership along with their highest award for excellence in web designing, the Gold Web Award including the National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement 2008 and the highest award in India for Children instituted by Government of India.

Sreelakshmi Suresh has been appointed as the Brand Ambassador of InfoGroup, a group of companies and Director of YGlobes Technologies. She has also started her own web designing company, eDesign, wherein she is the ‘Chief Executive Officer’. (ANI)

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Cleaning agent may help in superbug battle

June 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 27 (ANI): A cleaning agent, developed to stop mould growth in bakeries and fish factories, has been found effective in killing hospital superbugs, say researchers.

The research team from Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) have found that agent Byotrol has cut levels of MRSA on wards by one third.

Byotrol, an antimicrobial technology developed by a Manchester-based paint firm, has a polymer-based structure, which enables it to kill bacteria, like MSRA, days after being first applied.

The polymer is said to create a surface tension effect, which operates like a flytrap that literally tears apart the bacteria when they come into contact.

“These are very impressive results. Our study has shown a reduction of one third in levels of MRSA in the ward when the new disinfectant was compared with the gold-standard NHS bleach-based cleaning agent,” the Telegraph quoted Dr Andy Dodgson, consultant microbiologist at the MRI who led the trial as saying.

“The new disinfectant has a clear role to play in helping hospitals in the battle to control HCASIs. Cutting the level of pathogens on the wards rescues the risk to patients of picking up an infection.

“The demonstration of a residual antibacterial effect is a major new discovery which will be an additional weapon for the NHS in the fight against superbugs,” he added.

Stephen Falder, the scientist who invented Byotrol, said: “I suppose you could say this is a prevention for superbugs that almost never happened. I began developing it as a protection to stop mould on paints. It grew from there.”

The study will be published in British Journal of Infection Control. (ANI)

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French customs makes record cocaine haul

May 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Paris – A routine check of a lorry on a motorway rest stop led French customs agents to find 684 kilos of cocaine concealed in the vehicle’s trailer, the Customs Office in the southern city of Montpellier said.

The find is the largest-ever seizure of the white powder made in France and has a street value of an estimated 28 million euros (about 39 million dollars).

The cocaine was discovered with the use of a new technological aid, a lorry scanner. The plastic-wrapped packets of the drug were covered with paint and coffee dregs to irritate sniffer hounds and concealed in 32 boxes arranged on wooden palettes.

The two British natives who were underway with the lorry claimed to have known nothing about their expensive cargo. (dpa)

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Paint your roofs white to slow global warming, says Obama’s energy adviser

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 27 (ANI): US President Barrack Obama’s energy adviser has suggested that as part of efforts to slow global warming, all the world’s roofs should be painted white.

According to a report in the Telegraph, Professor Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary, said that the unusual proposal would mean homes in hot countries would save energy and money on air conditioning by deflecting the sun’s rays.

More pale surfaces could also slow global warming by reflecting heat into space rather than allowing it to be absorbed by dark surfaces where it is trapped by greenhouse gases and increases temperatures.

The Professor described climate change as a “crisis situation”, and called for a whole host of measures to be introduced, from promoting energy efficiency to renewable energy such as wind, wave and solar.

The Nobel Prize-winning physicist said the US was not considering any large scale “geo-engineering” projects where science is used to reverse global warming, but was in favour of “white roofs everywhere”.
He said that lightening roofs and roads in urban environments would offset the global warming effects of all the cars in the world for 11 years.
“If you look at all the buildings and if you make the roofs white and if you make the pavement more of a concrete type of colour rather than a black type of colour and if you do that uniformally, that would be the equivalent of reducing the carbon emissions due to all the cars in the world by 11 years – just taking them off the road for 11 years,” he said. (ANI)

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Shooting with Spielberg rids Shia La Beouf of stress

May 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 18 (ANI): Hollywood actor Shia La Beouf has revealed that he enjoys shooting a few rounds with filmmaker Steven Spielberg to get rid of stress.

LaBeouf says that rifle-range shooting helps him feel recharged, and doesn’t let him be forced to depend on drugs, drink and therapy to unwind.

“If I find I’m sinking, I’ll get out and paint toilet seats or ride dirt bikes or shoot. Firing shotguns really helps me,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

LaBeouf thinks that Steven, who introduced him to guns, is a perfect shooting partner.

“Steven Spielberg takes me when he goes… He’s an Olympic shot. The hand-eye co-ordination of that man is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. If he weren’t a great director, he could be one of our greatest snipers,” he said. (ANI)

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Shooting with Spielberg rids Shia La Beouf of stress

May 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 18 (ANI): Hollywood actor Shia La Beouf has revealed that he enjoys shooting a few rounds with filmmaker Steven Spielberg to get rid of stress.

LaBeouf says that rifle-range shooting helps him feel recharged, and doesn’t let him be forced to depend on drugs, drink and therapy to unwind.

“If I find I’m sinking, I’ll get out and paint toilet seats or ride dirt bikes or shoot. Firing shotguns really helps me,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

LaBeouf thinks that Steven, who introduced him to guns, is a perfect shooting partner.

Air New Zealand cabin crew strips for ‘transparent fares’ ad!

May 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, May 13 (ANI): The cabin crew for Air New Zealand dropped their clothes for a racy new advertisement that shows them performing their duties sporting only body paint.

Eight staff members donned the art while more than 90 others formed a part in the campaign, that was created to promote the airline’s fares that “have nothing to hide”.

“At Air New Zealand our fares have nothing to hide, which is why the price you pay includes everything upfront,” News.com.au quoted the advertisement as saying.

Chief Executive Rob Fyfe also featured in the ad and was subsequently selected New Zealand’s sexiest businessman.

Viewers can see shocked passengers smiling knowingly at the body-painted crew while the apt tunes of “Under my skin”, by New Zealand singer Gin Wigmore, fill the background air.

As for the staff’s “naughty parts”, they were blocked from view with some help from the beverage cart and luggage. (ANI)

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The A to Z of UK leadership’s gravy train revealed

May 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 9 (ANI): British MPs have put in claims for items from the common to the bizarre. Now, The Sun has presented their own ABC list of greed.

A is for AGA: A Tory charged 160 pounds for his annual Aga service.

B is for BREAD BIN: Labour backbencher claimed for a 20 pounds one in 2007.

C is for CAT FOOD: One animal-loving female Conservative MP claimed 78p for two tins of Cesar Chicken and Turkey pet food and 3.69 pounds for Iams Senior.

D is for DYSON: Animal vacuum cleaner, 299.99 pounds, claimed by a meticulous Lib Dem MP in 2005.

E is for ELEPHANT LAMPS: Two for 134.30 pounds, bought by well-known Tory front-bencher and EYELINER: 2.50 pounds, from Boots, bought by female Lib Dem in 2005.

F is for FARROW AND BALL PAINT: Charged by a Tory shadow minister as part of a 1,775 pounds interior house painting claim for his home in the country.

G is for GINGER CRINKLE BISCUITS: 67p, bought by a peckish Labour backbencher in 2007.

H is for HORSE MANURE: One particularly wealthy Tory MP charged 10 pounds for a bag of manure for his country retreat.

I is for IKEA CARRIER BAG: 5p, claimed by a Labour MP in his Scottish constituency and ICE CUBE TRAY: 1.50 pounds, bought by a former Labour Cabinet minister from M and S in 2008.

J is for JAFFA CAKES: 1.60 pounds for two packs, charged by an outspoken junior minister in 2004 and JELLIED EELS: £1.31, claimed by Essex-based MP.

K is for KIT KAT: Bought from the minibar of a central London hotel by Labour minister Hazel Blears.

L is for LOO SEAT: John Prescott bought a pair in the space of a year for his constituency home.

M is for MAKE-UP MIRROR: 19.95 pounds, by Revlon, bought from John Lewis by a middle-aged female Labour MP and

MOLES: Tory grandee asked 35 pounds a quarter for a mole catcher at his country pile.

N is for NEEDLEPOINT RUG: Millionaire MP Barbara Follett claimed 528.75 pounds for cleaning and repair of the ornate Chinese floor covering. She was granted 300 pounds.

O is for ODD JOBS: A Lib Dem frontbencher claimed for 77 pounds paid for a handyman to fix a rope on his swinging chair and other small jobs.

P is for PIZZA WHEEL: 3 pounds, bought from a Bodum shop in Oxfordshire by Tory backbencher.

Q is for QUICHE DISH: Part of a 110-piece dinner set bought on eBay for 155 pounds by a Labour backbencher’s wife.

R is for RATS: A well-heeled Labour MP claimed 199 pounds a quarter for visits from Rentokil to deal with a rat and mouse infestation at her London home.

S is for SHAMPOO: 1.65 pounds, claimed by a balding Labour backbencher in 2007.

T is for TAMPAX: Two packs at 1.11 pounds each, claimed by a male Conservative MP who lost his seat in 2005.

U is for UTENSILS: Potato peeler, 4.50 pounds, claimed by a member of the Tory front bench.

V is for VILEDA SUPERMOP: 4.99 pounds, claimed by a moustachioed Labour MP in 2005.

W is for WEED KILLER: 3.49 pounds, from Focus DIY, bought by a Labour MP and part-time handyman.

X is X-RATED MOVIES: Ordered by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s husband Richard, two for 10 pounds.

Y is for YUCCA PLANT: 9.99 pounds from Homebase, bought by a home-loving Lib Dem member for his constituency home.

Z is for ZANUSSI OVEN: 337.18 pounds, bought by a knighted Conservative MP from B and Q in 2007. (ANI)

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