Amazingly Yes are still going.

22/6/03 - Take the 'Are you a pikey?' quiz:

"1. Have you ever purchased something from Bejam or Iceland?
2. Have you ever owned an electrical appliance made by Hinari?
3. Have you ever purchased a KFC family bucket?
4. Have you ever hung a pine fresh tree shaped air freshener on your rear view mirror?
5. Have you ever bought or worn shoes from Barratts?
..."

1/6/03 - A horrible way to die; a pensioner is 'fed to death' by a malfunctioning pump.

1/6/03 - The new column 'Bad Science' in The Grauniad is excellent.  If this was true I'd be out of a job:

"Dr Victoria Kaziewicz sends us even more preposterous pseudo-science: "In a book called How to be Beautiful, by Kathleen Baird Murray, you can read that beauty products containing natural ingredients are preferable because naturally occurring substances are irregularly shaped like the substances making up your own body, while manufactured chemicals are perfect spheres.""