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Residents of an Italian town have won the right to add words like ‘fat’, ‘mad’ and ‘bean’ to their names. Many people dwelling in Chioggia, near Venice, have used nicknames to distinguish between each other for centuries – as the town’s population shares only a handful of surnames – but it is only now that they have legally won the right to use them.
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Town with no names
A British lorry driver phoned in sick – after being speared by an eight foot pole.
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Impaled driver
British gardening experts are encouraging people to urinate on their plants. Gardeners at a National Trust property in Cambridgeshire insist that relieving yourself on your shrubs will help them grow greener
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Plant food
A lost Australian man drove for nine hours in the wrong direction before asking for help.
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Long way round
A heavy metal singing Italian monk has announced his retirement. Cesare Bonizzi – who sang for the band Fratello Metallo (Metal Brother) – blamed Satan for making him too successful, forcing him into quitting singing
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Heavy metal monk retires
German fairground riders were handed a 850 Euro bill for being rescued. The thrill-seekers – who found themselves hovering 50 feet above the ground when the ‘Star Gate’ ride they were on broke- are furious they are now being charged by the emergency services.
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Expensive ride
Two crates of Scotch whisky belonging to a famous explorer are to be dug up from the Arctic. The whiskey – left by the Irish polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1907 – was found hidden under a hut built and used during an unsuccessful South Pole expedition
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Scotch rescue
Women are banned from wearing trousers in Paris. A rule banning women from dressing like men, specifically by donning trousers, was initially introduced in 1800 by the French capital’s police chief.
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Who wears the trousers?
A South African woman survived a 200-foot fall from a bridge. Kavisha Seevnarain, 26, a student teacher, was hijacked by thugs while driving near the city of Durban
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Lucky survivor