Here in California, IIRC, there've been problems with people dumping...Asian carp, I think...into lakes, so they can fish for them. However, they've wound up being invasive. Some remedies were tried, but I'm not sure of the current status.
Prince George’s officer fires in struggle with armed man, police say
Trouble with the Cambridges? So he has his own personal protection officer, Prince George does, and I'm surprised it's only one. Much is unclear. What did he fire? Why was there an armed man to be struggled with - perhaps as a festive treat for the wee Royal?
In fact, it's from the Washington Post, and about Prince George's County, Md., USA.
From today's BBC Welsh news website: "Sex and religious education to be made compulsory". I think things might have been better expressed in a different order ...
True story: when D. was about 18 he went to Paris with the Organ Club, and the Parisian ladies of the night went on strike (I understand these two events were unconnected). They were staging a demonstration on the steps of Notre Dame while the anoraks organists were inside. Someone asked D. if he'd play something, and being young and keen, he put the pedal to the metal, and let it rip. By the time he'd finished, the ladies had given up.
Love it! That's sounds a bit like the railway stations where they play classical music over the loudspeakers to deter the local yobbos young people from congregating.
(Mind you, there are probably one or two posh places where that might be an attraction, although they'd probably complain about the quality of the sound reproduction ...).
Perhaps they are unemployed surgeons, down on their luck?
Nice one @Baptist Trainfan. Thank you. So a warning not to look as though you might have any temptingly reusable body parts.
This kidney was lovingly gathered, specially for you, at dawn on a spring morning at Symonds Yat.
No, alas, I know it's a lovely view, but we can't offer you a cornea from Monsal Head. There was somebody in the ice cream van until after your carefully selected victim had driven off. You'll have to make do with one we collected earlier from Meadowhall.
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I'm mildly amused that the evil conspiracy is called KAOS; where I come from, KAOS stands for Kirkwall Amateur Operatic Society, with whom I used to sing, and who aren't evil at all.
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From (I think) the Bloomberg campaign trail, a poster,
"Trump's Broken Promises to Vets".
I had to stop and puzzle over that one until I realised it wasn't accusing Mr Trump of specifically letting down the entire profession of veterinary surgeons in the USA.
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I'm mildly amused that the evil conspiracy is called KAOS; where I come from, KAOS stands for Kirkwall Amateur Operatic Society, with whom I used to sing, and who aren't evil at all.
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There is, in Suffolk, the Stowmarket Operatic and Dramatic Society ...
When they built the Light Rail system in the Phoenix area they were looking for nicknames for it, such as the BART in the (San Francisco) Bay Area. I wanted to call it the Phoenix Area Rapid Transit -- PhART -- which would have, of course, been pronounced "FART."
Instead, they gave it the very original name of "Metro" (which nobody calls it -- it's "The Light Rail.")
Again from the BBC: "Eustice: Extreme weather is becoming more frequent". I first thought, seeing we have just had storms Ciara and Dennis, that this was a warning of yet another one on the way. But in fact it's a quote from George Eustice, the new Environment Minister (just reshuffled).
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No, Sarf London it was not. At least they included the capital H, and eschewed the rogue apostrophe to which BT so carefully alludes...
One of the less successful Enid Blyton stories. (Likely the final volume.)
Perhaps there was "yarn-bombing" involved?
LOL!!
Perhaps Timmy will dig up the entrance to a secret tunnel, all will be well, and they'll end up instead with lashings of buns and pop.
I found this unlikely story in The Forest Review.
In fact, it's from the Washington Post, and about Prince George's County, Md., USA.
Thieves strike in Herefordshire town
.. so no need to lock the door then
Are they wanting better working conditions? Higher pay? More benefits?
Just wait till they organise a lock-in, or a burgle-to-rule.
True story: when D. was about 18 he went to Paris with the Organ Club, and the Parisian ladies of the night went on strike (I understand these two events were unconnected). They were staging a demonstration on the steps of Notre Dame while the anoraks organists were inside. Someone asked D. if he'd play something, and being young and keen, he put the pedal to the metal, and let it rip. By the time he'd finished, the ladies had given up.
(Mind you, there are probably one or two posh places where that might be an attraction, although they'd probably complain about the quality of the sound reproduction ...).
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'Unspeakably dirty' takeaway owner is jailed
And sentenced to one month of daily bathing instruction, and observed showers. With soap.
This kidney was lovingly gathered, specially for you, at dawn on a spring morning at Symonds Yat.
No, alas, I know it's a lovely view, but we can't offer you a cornea from Monsal Head. There was somebody in the ice cream van until after your carefully selected victim had driven off. You'll have to make do with one we collected earlier from Meadowhall.
Very versatile they are, the French knife-throwing coppers, clearly trained in circus skills.
I'm mildly amused that the evil conspiracy is called KAOS; where I come from, KAOS stands for Kirkwall Amateur Operatic Society, with whom I used to sing, and who aren't evil at all.
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'Badger falls through Northampton Superdrug shop ceiling'
Police hunt bird of prey shooter
It would seem that threatened wildlife is defending itself
I had to stop and puzzle over that one until I realised it wasn't accusing Mr Trump of specifically letting down the entire profession of veterinary surgeons in the USA.
Oh, but I suspect they did ...
Instead, they gave it the very original name of "Metro" (which nobody calls it -- it's "The Light Rail.")
And did the badger tell them that? such a clever badger
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-hongkong-toiletroll/virus-time-crime-hong-kong-police-bust-toilet-paper-gang-idUSKBN20B0I5?il=0
Such a clever reporter....?