Such a Reading-ite quote on this news article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/7376917.stm
About 25 firefighters attended the blaze at the four-storey Hong Kong restaurant in West Street, Reading, which was described as “well alight”.
That cracked me up this morning.

Poor old Camden Market, was planning to go up there next week… probably no point now
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7237119.stm

I love stuff like this:
A little-known law which prohibits people dying while in the Houses of Parliament has been voted the UK’s most ludicrous piece of legislation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7081038.stm

Amazingly only 4 people seriously injured apparently:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4517962.stm
Looks like the smoke’s reached Berkshire. There’s a dull grey film across the sky. Quite mental really, they showed a satellite image and the smoke is covering most of the South East already.

How cute is that:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4501152.stm
New mammals being discovered is pretty cool.