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Nylon mesh to give traditional teabags the boot

London, Nov 7 : The traditional soggy paper teabags will soon be replaced by revolutionary nylon mesh versions.

Asda is replacing its conventional tea bags made from perforated tissue paper with the new nylon mesh bag for its upmarket range of teas.

Experts believe that the new bag will allow more flavour to seep into a cup of hot water.

One expert compared tea from the nylon bags as “top rate claret” against “cabbage water”.

Asda is selling its own label Extra Special range of tea in the new style see-through nylon bags.

Although the bags have been available at specialised tea shops, it is the first time they have gone on sale in mainstream stores.

At 1.97 pounds for 25, the nylon bags are around four times more expensive than the paper version.

Princess Diana would have survived had she been wearing seatbelt: Police expert

London, Nov 7 : Princess Diana would have been alive today if she had been wearing the seatbelt at the time of the fatal car crash ten years ago, a police expert has told the inquest into her death.

Senior accident investigator Anthony Read said that he could "almost guarantee" that Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed would have survived had they been strapped in and travelling at the speed limit when their Mercedes crashed in Paris's Alma tunnel on Aug 31, 1997.

PC Read, a senior collision investigator for the Metropolitan Police, estimated that Diana and Dodi's black Mercedes was travelling between 60 and 70mph, twice the speed limit, when it crashed into the tunnel wall killing the couple and their driver Henri Paul.

British experts convinced Princess Diana’s car collided with Fiat before crash

London, Nov 7 : Experts are certain that the Mercedes carrying Princess Diana in Paris 10 years ago collided with a white Fiat Uno before it crashed, the inquest into her death has heard.

Scotland Yard senior collision investigator PC Anthony Read and two other experts concluded that fragments of the smashed rear light of a 1980s Fiat Uno found at the crash scene and traces of white paint on the wreck of the Mercedes showed the incident did take place.

Diana, her lover Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul were all killed when their car hit a pillar of the Pont de l'Alma Underpass in Paris on the morning of August 31, 1997.

Read presented the jury with four bags of debris retrieved from the tunnel within a few hours of the crash.

Swans can have an impact of wind farming techniques, says study

London, Nov.7 : Whooper swans wintering on a Dumfriesshire reserve could have a major impact on new wind farm developments across Scotland, a study has claimed.

British Airways flight avoided mid-air disaster in September

London, Nov.7 : Hundreds of passengers watched in horror as their British Airways jumbo narrowly avoided a collision with another airliner over France recently.

Queensland researchers decode whale conversation

London, Nov.7 : Thousands of hours of humpback whale sounds have been recorded off the coast of Queensland and analysed to reveal a secret and ancient language of the deep sea.

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