Paper Round
15 Oct 2008
Air ambulance charities have benefited from some distinctly dubious fundraising wheezes this week.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into your local pub without fear that the resident darts team would perform a 'full monty' in aid of the local hospital's premature baby unit, it seems the world's most toe-curling fundraising wheeze is back.
Air ambulance charities have benefited from some distinctly dubious fundraising wheezes this week.
As the corridors of power echoed with the wolfish howls of City bankers and finance ministers last week, one small Scottish charity did its best to add to the sense of slightly amusing mayhem.
As Paper Round has often reflected, humanity is divided into two distinct populations: those with trousers and those without.
As David Cameron prepares to make his big speech at the Conservative Party conference this weekend, fears that the Tories' lead in the opinion polls might swell his head beyond sensible dimensions appear to have been confirmed at the UK's poshest car boot sale.
You'll remember Pythagoras from school maths lessons. Not content with messing about measuring the sides of triangles, Paper Round's favourite ancient Greek also founded a religion, the main two tenets of which were the transmigration of souls and the sinfulness of eating beans.
As an exemplary citizen of this nation, Paper Round would willingly undergo all manner of terrors, privations and humiliations in the name of charity. Sponsored parachute jumps, head shaves, even nude calendars: you name it. But one Somerset man went far beyond anything this column has ever contemplated,...
We all know that closing the stable door after the horse has bolted is a fool's errand.
Paper Round has always been a bit of a workshy fop, but even your esteemed columnist would rather do an honest day's toil than cite one north Wales teenager's ludicrous excuse.
This week, charities have been busy ridding the world of crime, prejudice and idiocy. Take the Cancer Research UK fundraisers who grassed up a lawnmower operative for flogging pirated DVDs at a car boot sale in Chester-le-Street, according to the Northern Echo.