Sunday 5 May 2002

Burgeoning Broads' Broccoli Brings World to Brink

"The world's in danger of tipping over on the left-hand side due to an excessive broccoli infestation in the Norfolk Broads" says notorious alcoholic Geoff Scrivener today. According to Mr Scrivener, "more broccoli should be exported to Luxembourg, and then it’ll be alright". In the past, Mr Scrivener has predicted the fall of the Great Wall of China, the assassination of Nigel Kennedy and the construction of the English Channel Bridge. Mr Scrivener also believes that in the future cars will run on empty crisp packets, and that nanotechnology will allow the building of little aeroplanes for caterpillars to fly around in, before they become butterflies.