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IT department confirms they’ve been ignoring that critical security update email for ‘nearly eight months now’

The IT department at Henderson & Wright Logistics has confirmed that a critical security patch flagged as ‘urgent’ by their software vendor in February remains uninstalled, with senior…

By Tom Ashworth · 17 July 2026
Animals

Urban foxes announce they’ll be working from home permanently following trial period

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Britain’s urban fox population has announced that it will be making remote working arrangements permanent following a successful three-year…

Tom Ashworth · 17 July 2026
Science

Nation’s Physicists Confirm They Also Have No Idea What That Smell in the Lab Is

Britain’s leading quantum physicists have admitted that despite possessing equipment capable of detecting individual photons, they remain completely unable to identify the…

Sarah Kelsey · 16 July 2026
Environment

Britain’s rewilding projects now just abandoned garden centres with feral staff

Conservation groups have admitted that a significant number of the UK’s flagship rewilding sites have become functionally indistinguishable from garden centres that…

Tom Ashworth · 15 July 2026
Technology

Man Who Spent £8,000 on Smart Home Devices Now Trapped in Bathroom After Router Update

A Manchester resident has been confined to his bathroom for six hours after a routine router firmware update rendered every smart device…

Sarah Kelsey · 15 July 2026
Technology

Man Who Spent £3,400 on Smart Home Devices Now Trapped in Kitchen Until Alexa Stops Sulking

A Bromley man remains confined to his kitchen for a third consecutive day after his smart home ecosystem entered what he describes…

Sarah Kelsey · 12 July 2026
Food and Drink

Craft beer brewery to close after running out of things to put in beer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hackney-based craft brewery The Fermented Algorithm has announced it will cease trading next month after exhausting the entire list…

James Whitford · 12 July 2026
Cyber Security

IT department celebrates third anniversary of that password reset email everyone’s been ignoring

The information security team at Midlands-based logistics firm Hartwell Distribution gathered this morning around a slightly stale Colin the Caterpillar cake to…

Tom Ashworth · 10 July 2026
Animals

Seagulls announce formal merger with Just Eat following successful eighteen-month trial period

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Just Eat Takeaway.com and the United Gull Collective announced today a strategic merger that will see Britain’s seagull population…

Tom Ashworth · 10 July 2026
Science

Britain’s Last Functioning Particle Accelerator Now Being Used to Heat Kettle in CERN Canteen

The UK’s remaining operational particle accelerator has been relocated to a staffroom in Geneva, where it currently provides hot water for CERN…

Sarah Kelsey · 9 July 2026
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  • Britain’s rewilding projects now just abandoned garden centres with feral staff
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