An 18 year old schoolgirl was saved by her umbrella when blown off a building in China. Zhang Haijing was on the top floor of a 6 storey building when a gust of wind blew her over the edge. However, Zhang managed to cling to he
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Dozens of male council workers in Blackburn and Darwin are to be sent on compulsory breast-feeding courses. A spokeswoman said that the two-day awareness training would make the men more sensitive to the needs of nursing mothers.
A Norfolk policeman has been named personality of the year in Lithuania, thanks to his efforts to make immigrants feel at home in Great Yarmouth. When PC Gary Pettengall became a beat officer, he found that many newly arrived workers in the seaside resort were desperately ignorant of local customs, and vulnerable to exploitation. So he bought a Teach Yourself Lithuanian course, and launched a scheme to help them. The Lithuanians spread the word back home and PC Pettengall found himself nominated for the prestigious Pride of Lithuania award, which he duly won.
A confused cockatoo thwarted her family’s Easter by trying to hatch their chocolate eggs, Pippa aged 17, has been jealously guarding the 20 Cadbury’s Crème Eggs for two weeks. Owner Geoff Grewcock from Warwickshire, said: ‘If you try to take one she goes crazy.’
A woman who lost her father’s ashes on a train has been reunited with them nine years later. Molly Schofield was on a train from Preston to London, to scatter her father’s ashes, when the bag containing his urn was stolen. It was later found on the Tube and handed into the lost property office. In a BBC documentary last month, the office’s supervisor, Ted Batchelor, appealed to the public to help trace its owner - and within days the urn was back on Mrs Schofield’s mantlepiece.
Two schoolgirls fron New Zealand have humbled one of the world’s biggest food companies, after their science experiment proved that ready-to-drink Ribena in New Zealand contains almost no trace of vitamin C. Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo disproved the advertising claim that ‘the blackcurrants in Ribena have four times the vitamin C of oranges’. They got short shift from makers GlaxoSmithKline, but a government watchdog backed their findings, and GSK is now facing 15 charges related to false advertising.