QUIRKY WORLD... ‘Gimp Man’ a latex clad charity fundraiser
The Gimp Man of Essex gives ÂŁ1 (about âŹ1.30) to Colchester Mind every time someone posts a photo with him to his Facebook page, which has over 2,000 likes.
He said most people he meets on the streets are friendly, but others make assumptions that he is âa paedophile or a pervertâ. So far he has raised ÂŁ375.
Human interest stories from newspapers going back 285 years have been put together in a new book.
Journalist and author Rona Levin trawled through the British Library Newspaper Archive to find the items across two centuries, from 1729-1930.
The book shows that readers of yesteryear had as much interest in the grisly and macabre as today â more so, because many of the details would be considered too graphic for todayâs newspapers.
Two women who opened the boot of their rental car to retrieve their luggage were greeted by a stowaway with a difference â a snake.
The women drove the rental car from Boston to Kennebunk in Maine, where they discovered the ball python.
The snake, which can grow up to 1.5m long, was turned over to the Maine Warden Service and was being transported to the Centre for Wildlife in York.
A truce has been reached in a battle between buskers and an abbey.
Tensions between street musicians and Bath Abbey have been rising after an evensong service was stopped last Sunday when loud music from the buskers made it impossible to continue.
The solemn tranquillity of the abbey has been disturbed in recent years as musicians use high-powered amplifiers as they compete for loose change in nearby Kingston Parade.
In March a traffic light sign system was set up on the west door of the abbey to alert buskers to services taking place in order to minimise disturbances.
Yesterday, Rev Edward Mason, the rector of Bath Abbey, and colleague Claire Robson met with musicians Jack Morgan and Ben Powell to discuss busking around the abbey.
In a joint statement released afterwards, both groups said they were determined to foster good relationships in the future.
A woman in Maine has come across a two-headed baby snapping turtle that was trying to cross the road.
Kathleen Talbot of Hudson said she found the tiny creature this week while she was watching turtle hatchlings to make sure they arrived safely at the other side of the street.
She noticed one of the turtles had been left behind. It wasnât until she got home and washed off the turtle that she realised it had two heads.
The turtle fits easily into the palm of her hand. She named it Frank and Stein.
A second snake â this one a sickly boa constrictor â has been seized from a San Diego man who had a python around his neck when he was arrested a week ago on suspicion of driving while drunk.
Authorities said that 27-year-old Travis Eisner-Young was arrested in his vehicle with the ball python on September 16.
After learning Eisner-Young had at least one more snake, Animal Services officers went to his hotel room and found a boa constrictor in poor condition.
Animal Services deputy director Daniel DeSousa says the boa and the python are now at a veterinary hospital that specialises in exotic animals. Officials say the python was found to be suffering from dehydration, anaemia and starvation.
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