News stories of the week
W E UNDERSTAND THAT DOING THE CHAMPIONS INTERNSHIP SOMETIMES FEELS LIKE YOU ARE IN A BUBBLE.. SO W HAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE W ORLD THIS W EEK?
The 'calamity of the century': Syrian civil war prompts world's biggest refugee crisis as UN reveals TWO MILLION people have fled fighting...
The woman from Plymouth who woke up with a Chinese accent
'I won't be changing nappies': Simon Cowell says he's going to be a great father... but he won't be getting his hands dirty.
X Factor mogul Simon Cowell has said that he is going to be a great father but he will not change dirty nappies. The 53-year-old star is expecting his first baby with New York socialite Lauren Silverman, 36, who recently returned to the US following a romantic break in the South of France a nd London with Simon. Asked whether he was looking forward to becoming a parent, he told BBC Breakfast: ‘I am good with kids because I like kids. I really do like them
More than 6million Syrians in total have been forced out of their homes with 2million leaving the country altogether. 5,000 flee into neighbouring countries such as Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan every day as civil war rages
How would you feel if one day you awoke to find your Glaswegian, Home Counties or West Country tones inexplicably gone, with a French, Danish or even Indonesian accent in its place? 38 -year-old Sarah Colwill doesn't have to wonder. On the March 7, 2010, she woke up to discover that her customary Plymouth pronunciation had gone - replaced by Chinese enunciation. Sarah is one of the handful of people to be diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome, a condition so rare there were just 61 confirmed cases between 1941 and 2012.
'They have great chemistry': 50 Shades Of Grey producers defend casting of Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam aft e r b a c k l a s h f r o m f a n s . . .
The casting of the most anticipated screen couple of the year was only announced on Monday and fans of erotic novel Fifty Shades Of Grey have been quick to express their disappointment. Fans of the best-selling book took to Twitter to voice their blast the author and producers' choice of actress Dakota Johnson and British actor Charlie Hunnam in the roles of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. But the film-makers shot back on Monday via the social networking site to defend the casting of Sons Of Anarchy star Hunnam and the little known The Social Network actress Dakota.