Welcome to the Hamster Times archive! Every week (or thereabouts) we took a humourous look at the news, and mostly made stuff up, just like quite a few real newspapers. Two people, doing it all in their lunch hours, from September 1997. Pick an issue below. Issue 1 Wednesday, 24th September 1997 The very first edition, put together in our lunch hours. Life forms found on Mars, a crisis in our hospitals, Irish election news, a statue of Braveheart in Scotland, and the first photostory. Read Issue 1 » Issue 2 Monday, 6th October 1997 Late, and the art editor's evenings in the pub get the blame. Mars revisited, a visit to the Labour Party conference in Brighton, and the Depths of Heck vote. Read Issue 2 » Issue 3 Monday, 13th October 1997 The mailing list is born. Defence news (the Met Office teams up with NATO), the Sub-Editorial, Spice Girls news and sneaky shenanigans at the BBC. Read Issue 3 » Issue 4 Tuesday, 21st October 1997 A tribute to John Denver, an editorial rant about snails, an interview with the Martians, and part one of Ernie Saves the World. Read Issue 4 » Issue 5 Tuesday, 28th October 1997 The new-look Hamster Times arrives, with a button bar and a help button. Rants, news, lettuce, the feature of the week and Fronds, a photostory about six twenty-somethings and their plants. Read Issue 5 » Issue 6 Early November 1997 Neil and Bill Productions become Twin and Earth Publications. The Louise Woodward trial, lettuce shortages, French strikes, the November stars and part two of the Xena Files. Read Issue 6 » Issue 7 Friday, 21st November 1997 Exactly one week late. This week's feature: the human clones, as world leaders are replaced by robots. Plus a missing photostory, nano-tech surgery, a railway timetable crisis and the Spice Girls backlash. Read Issue 7 » Issue 8 Tuesday, 2nd December 1997 A bumper edition. Mice on aeroplanes, Girl Power from Hamster Spice, the December stars, Ernie Saves the World part two, and a letters page hit by the lettuce shortage. Read Issue 8 » Issue 9 22nd December 1997 to 11th January 1998 The Christmas special. A tax haven buys into Coventry City, a beef crisis feature, a rant about Microsoft and the Spice Girls, and a photostory set in a famous bar in Boston. Read Issue 9 » Issue 10 12th to 19th January 1998 Another facelift for the Hamster Times. Gale damage in the south of England, Hamster Spice at an early screening of Spiceworld The Movie, and the January stars. Read Issue 10 » Issue 11 28th January to 4th February 1998 The Hamster Times goes fortnightly. The editor's final word in the rants, and part three of the Xenaphiles photostory, starring Mulder and Scully. Read Issue 11 » Issue 12 March 1998 Very late. Hamster Towers is taken over by the Monkfish Brain Deflowerers, the editor is in hospital after a lettuce overdose, and Ernie Saves the World reaches act three. Read Issue 12 » Shorts 2.0 11th August 1998 The Hamster Times Shorts: a quick-read format for when time is short. The weather, finance from the cereal pool, Geri, lettuce and the Xenaphiles. Read Shorts 2.0 » Shorts 2.1 28th August 1998 Labour's candidate test, six Spice Girls on the way, 1999: A Spice Odyssey, a dead-hamster advert, the longest domain name ever, and the Xenaphiles part five. Read Shorts 2.1 » The Depths of Heck | Disclaimer | Awards | The Old Archive Page | Twin and Earth Publications The Hamster Times is copyright © 1997-1998 Twin and Earth Publications. See the disclaimer for conditions of use etc etc etc. This archive was recovered from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This web site does not require any specific browser. About this archive