The Scottish Press awards were a slightly more subdued affair this week. The usual banter between the Daily Record and the Sun curtailed by the fact that no-one from the Record was there. Journalists from the Record and its sister paper, The Sunday Mail, boycotted the event ahead of a three-day strike over jobs cuts. Meanwhile, senior management weren't there either, as they were preparing to...

I think that the newly elected Labour councillor for the Forth ward, one Cammy Day, could have set a new record. That record being for the quickest demanded resignation – the election was on the 6th and there were calls for his resignation yesterday. Under a fortnight! He doesn`t even take his place as a councillor in the city chambers until today. If this isn`t a record it’s a fairly ...

I think that the newly elected Labour councillor for the Forth ward, one Cammy Day, could have set a new record. That record being for the quickest demanded resignation – the election was on the 6th and there were calls for his resignation yesterday. Under a fortnight! He doesn`t even take his place as a councillor in the city chambers until today. If this isn`t a record it’s a fairly ...

The White House presented its Mid-Session Review of the Fiscal Year 2009 budget today, and with it announced a new record -- a budget deficit of $490 billion. That is quite a record indeed, considering that during the President's first year in office the nation enjoyed a budget surplus of $236 billion. Much was made of record deficits during the Reagan Administration, but the worst of those, in 19...

Yes.... 2008 is a record number of recorded years... more than in any other year since records began 2008 years ago. Record debt explained.

Gordon Brown may have resigned today but record numbers of people refused to resign themselves to the new Conservative/Lib Dem government without a fight, as record numbers joined the Labour Party. Over a thousand people had already joined Labour before Gordon resigned, but afterwards the already record number of new members INCREASED to 20 a minute

There have been many occasions when I have come very close to beating Reginald “Kipper” Herring’s record for the sitting high-jump – a record previously held by Bertie Wooster. That record has now fallen, and the following was the cause: “I want to see a public man come forward and say what the Irish question is.

5 years ago US stunt man/magician David Blaine set a world record for hanging around in a box doing nothing. Today, Irish international footballer Robbie Keane set a new world record when he finally brought to an end his five-month stint doing the same thing in Liverpool.

Researching my post on Hey Jude led me down a fascinating by-way. I think I have identified the rarest and most valuable record ever made. Although I don't know where it is. Hey Jude is considered the first record on...

Judd Partin observed yesterday that a "fantastic new record" had been recently (early Nov 2008) published from Heshang, China. Zhang et al report that their new record is "broadly similar" to the reconstructions of Esper, Mann and Jones 2003 and Moberg as follows: The Wanxiang record, with a d18O range of ~1.3 per mil (‰) (Fig.