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Timing is perfect.

An inventor believes he has come up with the perfect way to boil an egg ( and it does not even involve water.

James Seddon has produced a device called Eggxactly, which places the egg in a flexible plastic element and heats it to just over 100C.

The 49-year-old computer software expert from Staines, south west London South West London could mean:
  • South West (London Assembly constituency)
  • South West London Strategic Health Authority
  • SW sector of the London postal districts
  • South West London, an informal designation


Informal divisions of London
, has won the backing of elite businessmen on the BBC2 show Dragons' Den, who have agreed to provide pounds 75,000 to help him develop the invention.

Lorry tragedy

A LORRY driver who killed a 26-year-old woman and her two children after ploughing into a traffic queue was yesterday starting a three-year jail term.

Stacey Gitsham, her son Joshua, two, and daughter Georgia, 11 weeks, died in December when their stationery BMW was hit from behind by the lorry on the northbound A1 at Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire.

Former soldier James Wingfield, 36, of Coventry, West Midlands, admitted causing death by dangerous driving In English criminal law, the offence of causing death by dangerous driving is currently defined by the Road Traffic Act 1991 but, following Adomako (1995) 1 AC 171, the offence of motor manslaughter may now be the preferred charge.  at Peterborough Crown Court.

Suicide theory

A CROP circle-maker's suicide was blamed yesterday for a dearth of hillside artwork in England this summer.

Spiritualist spir·i·tu·al·ism  
n.
1.
a. The belief that the dead communicate with the living, as through a medium.

b. The practices or doctrines of those holding such a belief.

2.
 Paul Obee, 33, killed himself with exhaust fumes in May, an inquest heard.

The death hit the "croppie" fraternity, based at the Barge Inn in Honeystreet, Wiltshire, very hard, bringing about a slump in activity.
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Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:Aug 5, 2006
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