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Desperate landlady Lynne Peckett has put her beloved pub up for sale for just one penny.

Mrs Peckett hopes the virtual give-away will help her finally call time on 19 years of pulling pints at the Rose House after first putting it on the market two years ago.

The frustrated 53-year-old, who runs the drinking hole with her husband John, has been left exhausted by 50-hour weeks and soaring running costs.
They have also suffered a dramatic drop in customers since the smoking ban was introduced last year.

Set to make its public debut tomorrow at the British Motor Show in London, NICE's all-electric city car named, MyCar, will be on sale this Autumn in the UK. Starting from £8,995, MyCar is designed by Giugiaro of Italdesign, built in Hong Kong and comes with a two-year warranty.

With technical details to be released tomorrow with its official unveiling, NICE does state the running costs are very low, roughly one fifteenth compared to a conventional petrol or diesel model. Depending on electricity tariff used to charge the vehicle, owners will pay around 2p per mile.

Sharing a Google Calendar with another Gmail user can expose the first name and last name that the recipient of the shared calendar supplied to set up a Gmail account.
Finding out the name with which someone registered his or her Google Gmail account is as easy as sharing a Google Calendar.

Security researcher Aviram Jenik on Tuesday published details about this privacy oversight in a blog post. He attributes the issue to the strong linkage between Google's various services.

Michael Jackson's song Billie Jean has been voted the greatest dance record of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners.

Written by Jackson, and co-produced by Quincy Jones, the track won two Grammy awards and went to the top of the UK charts in 1983.

Donna Summer's I Feel Love, which topped the UK charts in 1977, took second place in the music poll.

In third place was soul legend James Brown with Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine.

Superheroes battling inner demons often rule the box office. This time, the superhero was a demon as "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" pulled in $35.9 million to debut as the No. 1 weekend film.
Universal's "Hellboy" sequel, starring Ron Perlman as the red-skinned devil fighting for the good guys, took over the top spot from Will Smith's superhero tale "Hancock," which slipped to second place with $33 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Sony's "Hancock" raised its domestic total to $165 million.