London, Sep 28 : An elderly woman was bombarded with 5000 letters weighing 220LB after she replied to a mail from a crooked company.

London - Britain's Conservatives were set to start their party conference Sunday, with party leader David Cameron and other top leaders focusing on the economy and mapping out how they would handle it differently than the Labour government.

In remarks before the meeting in Birmingham, Cameron promised he would set out an "alternative" to the government's economic policies and that he backed "short term" action to protect peoples' savings and give the Bank of England powers to rescue failing institutions.

London, Sept 28 : A new study has found that children introduced to drink under the age of 15, even in supervised conditions, are more likely to become alcoholics.

Some parents let there young ones try a little wine at family meals in the hope that they will learn to drink responsibly.

However, the new study suggests that liberals may have got it badly wrong. 

The study from America’s respected National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) found that if young people have their first taste of alcohol before the age of 15 it sharply raises their risk of becoming alcohol dependent in later life. 

London, Sept 28 : Brit kids as young as nine are being forced to get married by their families, it has been revealed. 

The revelation comes after official figures revealed that the Government''s Forced Marriage Unit rescued around 60 kids aged 15 or under in the past four years. 

The cases have fuelled concerns that large numbers of children are disappearing from British schools to be forced into wedlock overseas. 

Karma Nirvana, a charity that runs a national helpline on forced marriage and "honour"-based crimes, revealed that in one incident a nine-year-old girl from a Pakistani family in the east Midlands was taken into council care after her parents told her she was to wed. 

London, September 28 : Hundreds of people in London dressed themselves in gorilla outfits to raise money for charity.

Approximately 750 runners participated in the ‘2008 Great Gorilla Charity Run’ setting a world-record for the largest-ever gathering of people wearing gorilla costumes. 

The 7km event that took place in London on September 27 had been organised by ‘The Gorilla Organization’ - a charity based to protect Central African gorillas from becoming extinct. 

Hoping to raise 200,000 pounds, Jillian Miller, the charity director claimed that the event was becoming more successful with every passing year.

London, September 28 : A truck driver, who was transporting 60, 000 tins of custard and rice pudding to a local supermarket, was forced to desert his truck when it began to explode.

Not knowing that his HGV had caught fire, the driver was forced to stop by the passing motorists on the A382 in Chagford, Devon.

Soon after he fled the truck, the 26 tonnes of Ambrosia custard and rice pudding cans began exploding ‘like thousands of gunshots’, reports Telegraph.

Though the fire crews arrived within a short span, they were unable to do much since the desserts had already burnt out while the truck itself was consumed within 20 minutes.