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Printed with permission from the Guardian Society - Wednesday, January 16, 2002
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Gesture of Dissent
A woman painting peace slogans on a wall in Westbourne Green London had to go to hospital when her eyelids stuck together after a passer-by tipped her bucket of white paint over her head.
East Anglian Daily Times 29-12-01
Spanner of attention
Children at a school in Truro, Cornwall are to help the headteacher renovate his 72 year old Austin Seven car as part of their homework.
Basildon Echo 27-12-01
Stuck in Conversation
A Wiltshire county councillor had to go to hospital to have a mobile phone removed from his hand after making a call while the glue with which he had been fixing the phone was still wet.
Sunday Independent 23-12-01
Dark day for justice
A judge, two magistrates and a clutch of court officials adjourned to a car park in Newcastle upon Tyme to decide whether a black cab was black enough for the owner to be granted a Hackney carriage licence.
Metro 11-12-01
Profitable Time
A London woman whose �10,000 watch was stolen in a burglary four years ago, has had it returned to her after the police recovered it, now inlaid with diamonds and worth �32,000.
Express and Star 10-12-01
Return to Bringer
A retired delivery man bought a vase at a jumble sale in Carmarthenshire, and discovered inside it a receipt showing that he had delivered it himself in 1949.
Worstershire Evening Mail 15-12-01
Grassed Up
Police acting on an anonymous tip-off that a drug dealer was operating in a street in Edinburgh, arrived to find that the call had been made by the dealer, who admitted possessing cannabis.
Edinburgh Evening News 14-12-01
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Swag on tap
Thieves who broke into a newly built house in Dromore, Northern Ireland stripped out all the kitchen fittings, including the sink
Belfast Telegraph 20-12-01
You've been framed
A short sighted shoplifter stole a pair of designer spectacles with no lenses from an opticians in Gillingham in Kent
Metro 12-12-01
Pickup point
Men are refusing to collect their wives from evening classes in a church in Burslem Staffordshire because they say that while waiting in their cars they are being harassed by prostitutes.
Stoke Sentinel 7-12-01
Related Illness?
A woman who visited her GP in Bedford after suffering chest pains and numbness in her feet was told to go to relate for marriage guidance.
Bedfordshire on Sun day 23-12-01
Harbouring ambition
A ferry enthusiast has taken the three minute ride across Portsmouth harbour to Gosport 14,000 times since 1971
Birmingham Evening Mail 23-12-01
Wheels of fortune
An eighty year old woman from Edgeley Cheshire, who hasn't driven for fifty years won a �12,000 Mercedes in a hospice raffle.
Stockport Express 27-12-01
Bruised fruit
A judge ordered a man from Ramsgate Kent to pay his former wife �1 for the pineapple he damaged when he hit her with it during an argument.
Thanet Times 1-1-02
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Answers
1.C,
2.B,
3.C,
4.A,
5.D,
6.A,
7.D,
8.C,
9.A,
10.C,
11.B,
12.B,
13.C,
14.D,
15.A,
16.C,
17.A,
18.C,
19.D,
20.B,
21.B,
22.D,
23.B,
24.C,
25.C
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