10 great reasons to check out our blogs today...1 THEY are the upside down kitchen cupboards that give you a head start in the kitchen. But they never caught on. Brummie inventor Arthur Perks came up with the spacesaving scenario back in the 1980s. Read the full story of his crazy kitchen in our new Inspect-a-Gadget blog. Each week we bring you great inventions and daft designs from the Midlands. 2 MIDLANDS pop legend Bev Bevan Bev Bevan (born Beverley Bevan, 25 November 1944, in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England) was the drummer and one of the original members of The Move and the Electric Light Orchestra. He also served as the drummer for Black Sabbath from 1983-1984 and as their percussionist in 1987. is set to appear in a new all-star film. The ELO ELO Electric Light Orchestra (band) ELO Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth ELO Extended Learning Opportunity ELO Enabling Learning Objective ELO Environmental Liaison Officer ELO Emisora Libre de Orcasitas and Move drummer has been working with comedy stars John Alderton John Alderton (born 27 November 1940) is an English actor who is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs, Thomas & Sarah and Please Sir!. Alderton has often starred alongside his wife, Pauline Collins. and Geoffrey Hughes Geoffrey Hughes (b. 2 February 1944 in Wallasey, Wirral, England) is an English actor, best known to United Kingdom television viewers for his playing: Vernon Scripps in Heartbeat; Eddie Yeats, refuse collector and lodger of Hilda Ogden in UK soap opera Coronation Street . Find out more in the Bev Bevan blog, which is attracting interest worldwide. 3 NEW sci-fi series Fringe is being touted as the new X-Files. But is there more to the sinister JJ Abrams show than meets the eye? Our Anorak City blog reckons it could offer clues to the mystery of Abrams' castaway Castaway Arden, Enoch shipwrecked sailor; lost for eleven years. [Br. Lit.: “Enoch Arden” in Benét, 316] Bligh, Captain commander of H.M.S. Bounty who was cast adrift by mutinous crew. [Am. Lit. show, Lost. 4 THE truth really is out there. Our top-rated Grassy Knoll blog reveals all about Area 51. Was an alien spaceship secretly examined at the desert base 40 miles from Roswell? Were creatures from another planet discovered, then hushed up by the government? 5 HALLOWEEN'S not far away, but things go bump in the night all year round. The Mercury's Haunted blog this week finds the team at the Old Crown in Birmingham. We have fascinating facts and photos of the city's most spooky pub. 6 CRAZY Keogh The Cat has gone missing, and there's a reward up for grabs. But the she-cat with attitude is far from happy about it, especially as it's only a fiver. After all, they offered pounds 25 when the Siamese across the road went AWOL. 7 WHAT have Boy George George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham, London) is a rock singer-songwriter. George grew up in a large, working-class Irish family, which originated in Thurles, in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. , German bankers and shoes got in common? Brummie Broad reveals what floats her boat in the latest woman's look at life. Just don't mention clothes shopping or the Second World War ... 8 FED up of all the sob stories in The X Factor? Our Telly Talk blog takes a close look at the show you either love or loathe. And what's with Dannii and Cheryl? It's enough to make you cry. 9 IS yummy Brummie Glynn Purnell the sexiest chef on TV? Certainly, he reckons he is, and he'd like you to agree. Read about the rock and roll chef in his latest blockbuster blog. 10 THERE'S a bad joke every day in Mr Dale's Diary. Here's one of the latest: A group of chess enthusiasts were standing in the lobby of a hotel, discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer." Click on www.sundaymercury.net/birmingham-blogs-comment/ |
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