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Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones dreams of living and working in South Korea once she finishes university, even though she has never visited the country. But while taking language lessons, the 19-year-old found that she couldn't pronounce certain crucial sounds in the Korean alphabet. Her dentist suggested it may be because she was born with a slightly shorter than average tongue, caused by having an unusually thick lingual frenulum - the flap of skin that joins the underside of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. Language barrier: Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones, from Nottingham, had her tongue lengthened by 1cm to help her...

I hear The Origami Bank had folded, The Sumo Bank has gone belly up and Bonsai Bank plans to cut back some of its branches and The Karaoke Bank is for sale and is going for a song.

Don’t be fooled: the left is terrified of Sarah Palin. ristol quotes a liberal commentator who gleefully adapted a a mot from Secretary of State Jim Baker: “putting Sarah Palin into a debate with Joe Biden,” he said “is going to be like throwing Howdy Doody into a knife fight!” Maybe so. But it’s not at all clear who will be Mr. Doody, and who will be wielding the knife. In early day, when he was a young, arrogant politician, Joe Biden famously bragged about his high high IQ (probably higher than yours, he told them). I confess that I...