The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, welcome to edition 18 of The Bugle.

The world's only audio newspaper for the week beginning Monday 25th of February 2008.

With me and his ultimate still, in a very cold New York city, there's too much snow in this place,

you know, I don't know what you people get off on here.

Don't worry, anyway, this is the second and the last time we'll be in the same room.

We can now go back to putting a huge ocean between us and the Bugle could once more become

like the love letters between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, only with less declarations

of love and more infantile summations of current affairs.

For the Bugle does turn 18 today, meaning that it can now vote, but statistically it probably won't bother.

And all you bugleists who are the secret and the serious fancies about the Bugle, they are now entirely legal.

As always, some sections of the audio newspaper go straight in the bin this week.

A special obituary of the former British Olympic 400 metre hurdle bronze medalist Chris Agabousi,

who it happily turns out is very much alive as well.

And also in the bin a special offer.

Slam your head against a brick wall 20 times and you will win a free Bugle authorised headache.

Top story this week, Castro.

Finale Castro has finally stepped down as supreme leader of Cuba after being in power for 49 years,

which is pretty impressive, especially when you remember that he did that without dirty hands

by winning a single recognisable election.

That is natural leadership talent and the anyone can win an election.

It takes a special individual to wage a guerrilla campaign from a mountain and overthrow a government.

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