Headline: Overturned lorry driver arrested

Thanks to my colleague Ro for pointing out this BBC News headline:



This suggests that it is the driver that overturned, not the lorry (although the driver probably did overturn with his vehicle).

Press release: stop next generation dying

One of my colleagues recently passed me a press release from road safety charity Brake with the following headline:

Local education project to stop next generation dying

Quite an ambitious – and worrying – aim!

Photo special: working with Sainsbury's

Yep, your blogger went on holiday, and all you got was this lousy photo:



This is another snap taken in a Sainsbury's supermarket. I was struck by the sign's use of 'working with' rather than (as you might expect) 'working for'. I think Sainsbury's is trying to promote the idea of one big, happy team. No bosses here!

On the same note, I've noticed that the supermarket calls its employees 'colleagues' (at least in its tannoy announcements).

What's in a name?

One of our colleagues is working on her family history and, using the internet, has more than 3,000 people in her extended family tree. One of the many family names she has encountered is Bottle, including a father and son back in the 19th century with the first names Walter and Arthur. Who says Victorians didn't have a sense of the ridiculous?

Inspired by the Bottles I Googled 'silly names' and came up with the following in a long list of real people whose births were registered in Cornwall during the 19th and early 20th centuries:

Reginald Thistlewayte Cocks
Urania Emma Hodge Button
Orchard Betowing Champion
Adolphus Segro Palmiston Stinton
Wesley Mendelssohn Valatart Barrett the V

Imagine trying to convince the cops that any of the above is a real name...