http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26814 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 11:56:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26814#post-73516 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:20:24 +0000 Erlang 73516@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Eric Pickles, has been forced to admit he cannot compel the European Space Agency to collect the refuse from the International Space Station more often.</p> <p>The ESA announced that the ATV-Johannes Kepler ship which took 1.3 tonnes of rubbish from the space station into a controlled dive into the atmosphere just before 2100 GMT on Tuesday, and the next pickup wouldn't be back until 2013/14.</p> <p>Previously Mr Pickles said "that it was a basic right for every Englishman and woman to be able to put the remnants of their tikka chicken masala without having to wait two years for it to be collected,"</p> <p>Downing Street later confirmed that the the last English astronaut Richard Allen Garriott visited in 2008 and had in fact taken his own rubbish home with him. </p>