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QUIRKY WORLD ... David Beckham scores with hot beverage for patient

ENGLAND: David Beckham surprised a paramedic and her elderly patient with a hot cup of tea and coffee when he spotted them in the cold waiting for an ambulance.

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Quirky World: Chinese cut a lung story short with a healthy alternative to Welsh placename tongue-twister

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Six more weeks of winter ‘forecast’

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Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring

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Punxsutawney Phil set for annual Groundhog Day forecast

Big freeze traps 11,000 as tolls hits 122

At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia’s mountains, authorities announced, as the death toll from Eastern Europe’s week-long deep freeze rose to 122.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2012

Groundhog Phil predicts six more weeks of winter

THOSE hoping for an early spring were disappointed by the news from Gobbler’s Knob yesterday.

Wed, 03 Feb, 2010

Groundhog predicts six more weeks of winter

PUNXSUTAWNEY Phil saw his shadow, but it was hard to find a complainer in the crowd on Gobbler’s Knob, where the morning temperature was well above freezing.

Fri, 03 Feb, 2006

Wrap up, furry Phil sees more winter ahead

IF YOU’RE tired of winter, Punxsutawney Phil had a message for you: get used to it.

Tue, 03 Feb, 2004