Even Willy Wonka might struggle to use this much chocolate. Yesterday, somebody bought 241,000 tonnes of cocoa beans.   read more (UK)

The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has sai read more (UK)

With two fields, some pigs, chickens and community spirit, a Hampshire village is organising to defy supermarkets and become self-sufficient read more (London/South)

Farmers are benefiting from the weakness of sterling – sometimes by tens of thousands of pounds – because their subsidies from the EU read more (UK)

The first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a true translation of the Hebrew. The fi read more (UK)

So Barack Obama is facing the fight of his life as he attempts to reform the US healthcare system. The "special interests" – doctors, heal read more (UK)

Halswell House in Somerset was hired for £9,000 by a group of 350 revellers who arrived in a fleet of Porsches, BMWs and Aston Martins. read more (UK)

The likes of J.K Rowling and Terry Pratchett have to pay £64 for the privilege of being put on a database to prove they're not a paedophile read more (UK)