"Dot-Com" News - 7th July, 2009
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A cat owner only realised her ginger Tom was missing when a friend rang to say she'd just seen him - on Question Time.
Tango appeared on screen on the BBC1 show as David Dimbleby, politicians and pundits discussed topics as diverse as the wearing of burkhas and MP's expenses.
The cat strolled into the studio as the show was being broadcast from Newquay, Cornwall, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Recording was underway Tango crept in through a back door, ducked under a television mixing desk and made his way under the assembled seating.
The show was being broadcast from Treviglas community college, where Tango's owner, Jackie Ellery, works.
Ms Ellery, a mother-of-two, who lives nearby, said: "My friend phoned me up to say 'have you seen your cat on the telly'. I'd been doing something else at the time but rewound it and there he was," she said.
"It's lovely - he's a mischievous cat anyway and because we live so close to the school he's often in school grounds. The sixth formers know him really well. He must have known something was going on."


Toast(er) to the happy couple
 

A newly-wed East Yorkshire couple opened their wedding presents - to find they had been given 24 toasters.
Claire and Stuart Linley had asked for cash or vouchers from their 160 guests, reports the Daily Telegraph.
They first realised something was up when they received a pile of gifts all in the same shaped box.
Mrs Linley, 31, said: "When we went to open our presents and saw all the boxes were the same shape I thought, 'this is quite strange', and then we began to open them and it was toaster after toaster after toaster.
"It was hilarious really. Most of them were from Tesco and when we took them back to the store the staff couldn't stop laughing. We did make beans on toast for lunch when we got home though."
It emerged the 'coincidence' was actually a joke conceived on Mr Linley's stag party in Ibiza.
The auto-electrician, 31, said: "The boys were asking me what I wanted as a wedding present, and I said either money or vouchers because I didn't want to end up with a million toasters.
"Then one of my friends took it upon himself to tell everyone to buy us a toaster.
"On the morning when we came to open our presents I knew something was going on as I had had about 15 text messages asking if I was having toast for breakfast."
The couple, who married at Howden Minster, East Yorkshire, last Saturday, have now returned 23 of the toasters, but decided to keep one.


Umbrellas stop Obama melting in the heat

A new waxwork of Barack Obama has been unveiled in Paris - where it had to be protected from the hot sun by umbrellas.
The same heatwave that has hit Britain has sent temperatures soaring in France and threatened to melt the model's face, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Helpers grabbed umbrellas to shield the waxwork from the hot sun as it was unveiled near the Eiffel Tower before taking up its place in the Musée Grevin wax museum.
It was created by sculptor Eric Saint Chaffray who had to overcome the problem that he had never seen the US president in person.
"The main difficulty is making it without meeting him, from press photos," he admitted.
But passers-by were so taken by the resemblance that many stopped to have their photograph taken by the model.
"It looks really cool," said Emily Artes, a US tourist. "Everyone was joking that he was actually here and that we were gonna take pictures with him."
Mr Saint Chaffray has been creating wax statues for the museum for the past 20 years, and has worked on American presidents in the past.
"We're presenting Barack Obama at the Musée Grevin as part of a gathering of heads of state, which is why he has kind of an official attitude, a little bit stiff," he said.


Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 July 2009 07:31 )