“I remember my parents queuing for two hours to buy oranges for Christmas. You had ration books for bread and milk, you’d get half a loaf per person per day and they’d tick you off in the book so you couldn’t buy two. So if you were hungry and wanted any more, too bad, you couldn’t get it. It was very hard and a lot of people don’t understand what it means to live like that; But we made it through and what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” more...

Are you a radio broadcaster - legal, community or pirate; FM or digital? Do you have any thoughts on the role of FM pirate radio today and in the future? We are about to begin shooting a short film about the future of FM pirates coming up to the digital switch-over - could this be the end of pirate radio? What will happen to the FM frequency? Will pirate broadcasters find a way to overcome the technological changes and continue broadcasting to their communities - people that may not have the internet or DAB? And what is the role of pirates in the day and age when many people get all their music from the web? more...

Boy George’s troubles escalated this week when he was served with a writ for £36,000 by a lawyer who dressed up as a clubber and got him to sign it as an autograph as he DJed in Manchester night club Essential. more...

Romanian rising star DJ Claudia Cazacu chatted to Skrufff this week about her love of dressing in micro miniskirts and even skimpier tops and admitted that she sometimes feels cold, including when DJing. more...

Barefoot Doctor: “We don't live in a world of shoulds, however you could always forgive someone - it's a good option, in that it immediately divests you of the weight of the grudge you've been carrying. Otherwise the grudge will simply eat away at your vital reserves and certainly won't help you feel happier about being on the planet, especially in respect of the one who wronged you. more...

The Sunday Times tipped Lovefoxx from Brazilian five piece CSS as one of the biggest next big things of next year, this week, and revealed that she wears spangly sequinned catsuits when performing because stage diving in skimpy clothes can by ‘dicey’. more...

Scottish bike lover Robert Stewart could have avoided being placed on the sex offenders’ register for pleasuring his bicycle in an Ayr hotel, human rights lawyers suggested this week, if he’d refused to plead guilty and challenged his arrest on privacy grounds. more...

National Geographic Traveller Magazine published the results of their annual top island guide this week, in which 522 ‘travel experts’ placed Ibiza second from bottom, out of 111 ‘selected islands and archipelagos’. more...

Looking at someone directly increases a person’s attractiveness, according to new research published this week by Scottish psychology school The Face Research Lab. more...

A new study of 5,000 Swiss young people has discovered that moderate pot smokers ‘do not seem to have great personal, family, or academic problems’ with those who also avoided tobacco actually outperforming abstainers. more...