Interpol have issued an international alert warning all clubbers, party-goers and unsuspecting pub regulars to be on their guard and stay cautious when offered a drink by any woman. A new date rape drug on the market called ‘beer’ is used by female sexual predators at parties and bars to persuade their male victims to go home and have sex with them.

This applies to anyone living in the Northern Hemisphere. You can easily find the North Star by using the Plough constellation (or ‘Big Dipper’ as it’s sometimes called) as a guide.

The Plough is one of the easiest constellations to see in the night sky. You will have seen it before, but here is a reminder of its shape:

Look at the two stars on the bottom right hand side. They are known as the ‘Pointer Stars’.  Look above the Pointer Stars at the angle and direction they are pointing to.

The New England Journal of Medicine conducted research to establish the most effective dietary regime. They studied three popular weight loss plans;

1) Low-Fat Diet…..’stickability’ over 2 years 90.4%

The low-fat, restricted-calorie diet was based on American Heart Association guidelines. They aimed at an energy intake of 1500 calories  per day for women and 1800 calories per day for men, with 30% of calories from fat, 10% of calories from saturated fat, and an intake of 300 mg of cholesterol per day. The participants were counselled to consume low-fat grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes and to limit their consumption of additional fats, sweets, and high-fat snacks. Average weight loss over 2 years (-3.4kg).

You can personalise your blog with regularly updated free content by using RSS feeds.  Here’s how you do it : (These instructions apply to WordPress blogs used by John Thornhill’s Masterclass students).

Go to your blog control panel with www.YOURBLOG.com/wp-admin.
On the left hand side scroll down to ‘Appearance’  and click on Widgets.
Add RSS feed to sidebar 1 or 2 and click  ’Save Changes’.
Then go to RSS edit and delete the URL entry. Here you paste or type in your RSS url address.

You can find these url addresses, on any number of subjects by simply typing ’URL Feeds’ into Google. Take your pick of your favourite site and then copy the url address in your browser.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and one of the reasons is that the act of eating and digesting food raises the metabolic rate. So eating will burn more calories than starving! Once you accept this concept then you will realise that the traditional three square meals a day may not be enough.

Some people take this to it’s logical conclusion and advocate ‘grazing’, eating little and often all day long. However research has shown that the optimum number of meals is 6. This does not require any radical changes. Simply stick to your current 3 meals a day, making sure each meal is healthy – no junk!  Then have healthy snacks at 11am, 3pm and 9pm.

The ‘proof’ of Paul McCartney’s death runs right through the Beatles songs and album covers. He had been replaced in  the group by a look-alike double in 1965.

I am a life-long Beatles fan, so I can reassure everyone that Paul McCartney is very much alive and I wish him well. Back in 1971 however there were rumours sweeping the world that he was dead. He had actually died in 1965 and been replaced in the Beatles by a look-alike double.

McCartney had disappeared from public view at the time, retreating to his Mull of Kintyre home to come to terms with the breakup of the Beatles. Without McCartney around the rumours started to gain credence and reached the front page of Britain’s Daily Mirror in August 1971.