Not many dead

Worker, 58, cuts finger.�On a recent visit to the Lake District Prince Williams opened the door to a newspaper shop for two friends who wanted to buy lottery tickets.�Not Many Dead.��This�hilarious compendium of�news items reveals how often national newspapers feel obliged to pass on the most boring and banal information about nothing significant. Sometimes, it is the endless diet of news about celebrities, in which the minutest fact is deemed worthy of interest. Other times�as in the theft of two packets of peanuts from a building site in Dewsbury�the news item says something about the prevalence of crime in sleepy areas. And sometimes, as in the BBC website's revelation that people could save money by switching off electrical devices, the non-news says a great deal about the redundancy of many statistical surveys. From Lech Walesa shaving off his moustache to the bending of a Skoda's windscreen wiper in Brightlingsea, here is the ultimate collection of heart stopping and world-changing news.