UK man's love match is pensioner corpse-hoarder
News Thinking things couldn't get any worse, Trevor Tasker went back to pensioner Shumate's flat to discover a corpse in her freezer. A twenty-eight-year-old Yorkshire man who flew to America to meet his chatroom "love" got more than he bargained for...
[February 22, 2001, 12:06]
RIAA pulls file-swap suit against pensioner
News The Recording Industry Association of America has withdrawn a file-swapping lawsuit after a possible case of mistaken identity. The trade association confirmed on Wednesday that it had withdrawn its suit against Boston-area senior citizen Sarah...
[September 25, 2003, 10:25]
Fatal shooting linked to Nigerian email fraud
News A Czech pensioner who had been defrauded by a criminal gang operating the notorious Nigerian email scam has been arrested on suspicion of shooting dead a Nigerian diplomat, according to reports. Early reports from the scene suggest that the...
[February 20, 2003, 15:36]
BT lays the path for universal broadband
Talkback As a 70 year old pensioner I came late to the Computer World - I am catching up fast. I enjoy BT's ISDN service but would dearly love Broadband before I depart this world. The latest news is more than welcome - Cropredy exchange (Banbury-Oxon) was...
[November 17, 2003, 23:53]
NTL targets broadband blackspot with wireless
Talkback Pensioner) I live in Milton Keynes and have to plug my tv ariel into the NTL socket. Why have NTL lost channel 4 recently? Other people have lost it too as I rang various realatives and friends (in MK) whenh my channel 4 stopped and they had the...
[January 9, 2006, 16:03]
Net Helps You Work Till You Drop
Blog Pensioner poverty increased by 300,000 in 2006 to 2007 to a total of 2.5 million, a Government report recently found. Research conducted by Scottish Widows this week found that one in three Britons cannot afford to put aside any savings for their...
[August 7, 2008, 12:03]
Vista pricing leaks out
Talkback I am not a Tech person but a pensioner, having a play with my PC. Are Microsoft going to cut the prices of the XP software? I doubt it. As the hardware gets cheaper, the Microsoft OS gets more expensive.
[August 30, 2006, 12:14]
CA leaves its shareholders hungry
News In July, O2 faced a near-riot at its AGM when angry workers disrupted proceedings and a pensioner was dragged from the room by security guards. Computer Associates' shareholders have been no strangers to adversity over the years as the company has...
[August 26, 2005, 13:00]
Home Office aims to drive down cost of ID cards
News Hillier gave the example of pensioner Jean Hutchinson who "hijacked" other peoples' identities in one of Britain's biggest benefit scams. Home Office minister Meg Hillier has said the government wants industry to help drive down the cost of ID...
[April 23, 2008, 8:42]
Jane Wakefield: In search of Internet truth
News Online friendship is all very well but it can never really be a substitute for the real thing as a 28-year-old Yorkshire man found out when he flew to the US to meet his love-match and found out she was a pensioner with a dead husband in her freezer.
[March 20, 2001, 7:36]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Right, twenty Capstan Untipped Full Strength and tell my financial advisor to go mug a pensioner. All very congenial, relaxed and totally unlike what will undoubtedly become a mammoth adrenaline-fest as The Date rolls towards us.
[March 14, 1998, 6:00]
