THE things people get up to … according to the Daily Mirror, a community maze in the Welsh seaside resort of Aberystwyth is to be locked at night after naked revellers used it as a party venue.
The maze, which cost £5,000 and consists of 720 separate waist-high wooden posts linked by one mile of rope threaded between them, had previously been likened to a military memorial in the Somme.
However, it has been claimed that up to 50 revellers, believed to be university students, were caught running around inside the maze in a naked or semi-naked state.
Town councillor Ceredig Davies said: “The town council received a letter from a resident who lives in the proximity of the labyrinth and who was not happy it was not locked at night. As a university town, we do experience an element of young people enjoying themselves in high spirits.
“The council has taken on board the fact that for security reasons we need to put a lock on the gate.”
The Portuguese pointer dog, whose pedigree can be traced back to at least the 14th century and has royal connections in its native land, has says the Daily Telegraph, achieved an official seal of approval in the UK with the Kennel Club now recognising the breed.
In the process it becomes only the second new breed to be added to the organisation’s register in the past five years. The number of pedigrees in Britain now totals 212, of which 137 have originated overseas.
Brits continue to have a fond fascination for anything to do with The Beatles and the BBC tells us that detention sheets describing Beatle John Lennon's schoolboy misdemeanours are being put up for sale.
Back in 1955, teachers at Liverpool's Quarry Bank High School for Boys wrote that Lennon, who was then 15, was punished for 'fighting in class' and 'sabotage'.
Apparently the two documents were rescued by a teacher in the 1970s after he had been told to burn all of the books in a storage room at the school. They are now expected to fetch up to £3,000 each at auction.
Spider alert in the Daily Express! It would seem that the number of people put in hospital by poisonous spiders has risen by 25 per cent in the past year.
Recently a London family fled their home after finding Brazilian wandering spiders, the most deadly in the world, in a bunch of bananas bought in a supermarket.
The false widow and its relatives are also being found in the UK in increasing numbers which means they are coming into closer contact with humans, leading to a marked rise in the number of people needing emergency treatment and surgery after being bitten.
Whoops! Sorry! A clam discovered on a trip dredging the seabeds in Iceland was hailed as the world's oldest creature at 507 years old.
But when scientists from Bangor University in North Wales were sent to verify its age by counting the rings on the inside shell, they instantly killed it by opening its shell, says the Daily Mirror.
Anglers are renowned for exaggerating the size of their catch but fisherman Alan Prangnell, from Ringwood in the New Forest, told the Southern Daily Echo that he reeled in a crocodile while fishing in a quiet lake.
Sixty four year old Alan, a support worker for the National Health Service, said: “This thing grabbed the roach I was reeling in. When it emerged I saw it was a crocodile about two feet long.
“It was underneath where I was sitting on my box on the water and just lay by the side of my feet for about eight seconds. Then it shot back into the lake.”
Fishing club officials and Alan have refused to disclose the exact location of the Hampshire lake for fear of large groups descending.
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