The Daily Mail yesterday quoted Girls Aloud member Cheryl Cole as saying:

'I remember being in Selfridges and taking these size 28s into the changing room and not being able to get them on, and then getting on the scales and crying because I was nine and a half stone. Nine and a half stone when I'm only 5ft 3in.'

She says more, though not much, which you can read here. Now talking about sizes, Cheryl puts her weight at nine and a half stone. A quick go on an online BMI Checker, and we discover that a 133 pound, 5' 3'' person has a BMI of 23.6 , which is neatly in the middle of the healthy BMI of 18.5 to 24.9.

I suppose it's not really fair to call her anorexic, from the weight she quoted above she would have had to lost a couple of stones to be considered underweight. However, if you think about just how many young girls look up to the girl band Girls Aloud, you can see how she should set an example and be happy with her size when she's a good, healthy, normal weight.

And besides, they look too thin to me.

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Thanks to the Daily Mail.

A couple in a Diner in Iowa received a blank cheque  from an elderly stranger on the 8th of February this year. He gave the couple the cheque after they told him that they had a 2 year old child with the condition that money must be spent on a house.

The couple wrote $100,000 (about £50,000) on the check to which they benefactor replied "I'm good for it." The only other conditions he set were that they were not to reveal their last names or his identity and that they were to name the next child after him. They plan to honour their agreement.

LB

Sources: ABC Orange

After a 36 year 'gap year' Queen guitarist Brain May has handed in his PhD thesis for Astronomy. He will discus his 48,000 word thesis with the examining board at the Imperial College, London on the 23 of August.

May handed his thesis entitled 'Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud' to Professor Paul Nandra on the 3^rd of August. “If I fail I will fail big time.” said May in a BBC interview making a joke of the fact that his result will be very public. Here's to calling him Dr May in the future.

The Literate Badger.

Update: Dr May now has two honorary doctorates - and one in astronomy! He gained a category two pass which means he will have to do some amendments to his thesis, but he is now a doctor. He was quoted on the BBC website saying: "I feel comfortable about using the title because I worked for this."

He will be officially handed his PhD this spring at the Albert Hall.

L.B. (07/01/08 8:30)

Source: BBC BBC