Thought I'd jot down a few news stores that had caught my eye recently.

I found this hard to believe at first, but it appears that people are stealing road signage for scrap from sites in Leeds.

Stranger still, bigwigs in Liverpool are considering changing the name of Merseyside to Liverpool City Region. No thanks.

But before all that there was the story about the Pentagon's Celebdaq for terrorism which, strangely, isn't happening any more for some reason.

For a journey back to reality this excellent article found in MediaGuardian offers an inspired and informed narrative on downloading music from internet legally.