COUNCILS across the land are under pressure to cut costs and it now seems that spending a penny in a public loo may become more difficult.
For a story in the Daily Express reveals that in the past three years, 13.5 per cent of public toilets have been cut by local authorities trying to save cash.
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.
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by Patrick O'Connor
WHAT name do you give to a day-old baby girl found abandoned in a plastic bag in a park? Why Jade of course, after the nine year old German Shepherd dog which helped save her.
The Daily Star reports that dog owner Roger Wilday and Jade discovered the baby in Marlborough House Community Park in the Stetchford area of Birmingham.
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AMUSING little tale in the Daily Mail about 62 year old Lamenda Kingdon who mentioned to a fellow plane passenger how much she was looking forward to visiting Spain only to be told: “Not on this plane, you won’t.”
To her dismay, Lamenda discovered that instead of heading to Granada, her flight was taking her to the Caribbean island of Grenada!
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by Patrick O'Connor
SO now you know...according to a story in the Daily Star, we Brits were tucking into frogs' legs up to 8,000 years before the French.
Archaeologists reported that a charred toad’s front leg was found at a dig at the Blick Mead site, just a mile from Stonehenge, Wiltshire, alongside small fish vertebrate bones of trout or salmon as well as burnt bones of aurochs, the predecessor of cows.
AN antique book featuring medicinal remedies dating back nearly 350 years is to be auctioned off in Derby, says the Daily Mail.
Tips in 'A Friend To The Sick - The Englishman’s Preservation', which is expected to sell for more than £350, include rubbing watercress on the gums and stuffing bread into the ear. It also contains age-old secrets to good health, such as eating burnt birds and drinking liquor.