BBC Radio 1 has banned the word “faggot” from the Pogues’ 1987 Christmas hit Fairytale of New York to avoid offence.

…MacColl’s mother, Jean, called the ban “too ridiculous”, while the Pogues said they found it “amusing”.

It’s quite funny actually. Listen here

UPDATE

The BBC has backed down!

BBC Radio 1 has said it will allow the Pogues’ Fairytale of New York to be played on the station uncut, after criticism of a decision to censor it.

Firefighters had to turn a waterhose on a man armed with a samurai sword while attending a fire in Dundalk.

(Via BBC News.)

A North Carolina man last week was sentenced to 110 years in prison after admitting that he and a co-conspirator hacked into computers used by young girls and used illicitly gained data to blackmail them.

If you read the article, yup, the guy’s a scumbag.
But 110 YEARS?!