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In a clandestine step that it is hoped will appear completely seamless, production of the British soap opera Hollyoaks will wrap up in Liverpool before moving permanently to the Blasket Islands off the coast of County Kerry next month. According to sources close to Channel 4's Teletext service, the covert, cost cutting shift in location has been planned for the last four years, as more and more Irish characters have been introduced into the scripts before the digital switchover this year. The European wide switchover from analog to digital television will allow the television drama's producers to stream entire episodes back to the British mainland employing satellite technology without compromising the ultra high quality visuals of the soap, rather than sending DVDs by carrier pigeon (as had heretofore been standard). However, whether producers will sell the new setting to viewers without explicitly referring to the fact is unknown. The move has become much more attractive fina...

Kids are good fun. They're easily amused too. For example, once you have a one year old convinced that every time they wrap their little fist around your index finger, you have to bark like a dog - and you don't particularly like it - it always brings a smile to their face, and that's your whole afternoon set. You can cancel all of your appointments and switch off your phone. You can talk to a two year old and for whatever reason, you end up counting stuff, and you're all "One, two, three, four" and then the kid says "Nine" and that's not quite right, of course. But even wronger is dissin' the little sprogs. For example saying something like Image courtesy Ogilvy & Mather, Dublin  Or calling them Image courtesy Ogilvy & Mather, Dublin Or what about Image courtesy Ogilvy & Mather, Dublin Apparently, these epithets are mild compared to what has been said to the kids who are lookng for help. The ISPCC (the Irish Society for the Preve...

A week before his club won the Champion's League, it can now be revealed that Chelsea striker Didier Drogba was caught on camera having an encounter with a homosexual. Drogba - hitherto believed to be happily married - was seen and heard chatting with the 49 year old gay man, who is said to have wished the footballer the best of luck for upcoming title matches. Hitherto. The two men are rumoured to have met on the set of a popular BBC chat show. Clearly aware that he was on camera, Drogba appeared unfazed by the attention as he engaged with the man. During the discussion, Drogba talked about his home country of the Ivory Coast. As the captain of his national soccer squad, he described how he and his teammates had pushed for talks to begin in order to end civil war in his homeland. Drogba also detailed how he had set up an organisation in the Cote d'Ivoire in order to lure sick children to medical centres. Here, the centre forward explained, they would be able to receive life sa...

An 82 year old woman, grandmother to seven children and great-grandmother to one, has left the town of Drogheda in complete shock after accidentally setting herself alight at the home of her daughter. The cause of the fire is unknown, but the elderly woman – identified locally as “looking like a fireball” – was last seen fleeing on foot at surprising speed down the M1 motorway.

Trivia Quiz: Remember when The West Wing was so popular that for four years running every Best Supporting Actor Emmy nominee was either in the series, or the actor's clone? But who can guess which of Bradley Whitford's clones actually won the gong in 2001? Answer: It was Britley Whatley

If you want to eat your way through Italy like that woman who wrote the book they made a movie out of with Julia Slobbers - yes, you know the one - that's right - her book! - then here are a few tips to set you on your way! Tips are numbered in Italiano from the top down! Tip Number Septic: How to get to Italy? Why not make a tv ad looking for sponsorship? Remember, if you're making a television ad, it's important to ensure that your onscreen dialogue is just a little bit out of sync with your audio. If you have the sound perfectly synchronised with the visuals, then people will regard your ad as a little shoddy in terms of post-production values.  Gnocchi doesn't mean that you don't have a soul. It's a kind of delicious dish!  (Photo courtesy of Hanna.) Tip Number Sexto: Remember always carry a can of pepperspray with you when you're in Italy in case you bump into lecherous media billionaire and political puppet master Silvio Berlusconi. If you happen to...