QUIRKY WORLD ... Man pushes a Brussels sprout up a mountain with his nose
Stuart Kettell, from the West Midlands, took three days to reach the 1,085m summit.
The 49-year-old trained for his charity mission by pushing a sprout around his garden with his nose. Mr Kettell said he selected a large sprout so it would not fall down a crevice in the rock.
His aim was to collect at least £5,000 (€6,260) in sponsorship for Macmillan Cancer Support, but does not yet know how much he has raised. “People definitely think I’m mad, and I’m beginning to think it myself,” he said.
USA: It’s just a sprinkle, but it’s enough for people in a US town to celebrate Rain Day.
The brief precipitation in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, makes for the 114th time in 141 years rain has fallen in the town on July 29.
The town’s street festival includes the crowning of a Miss Rain Day. The rain was reported by the mayor and a Rain Day committee member, on whose notebook a few drops fell.
California’s Republican candidate for governor says he spent a week living as a homeless person in search of a job to test the governor’s claim that the state is making a comeback after the economic downturn.
In an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal, Neel Kashkari says he took a bus from Los Angeles to Fresno earlier this month with $40 (€30) in his pocket. He says he turned to park benches and car parks to sleep at night and got food at a homeless shelter.
The 41-year-old says he was unable to find a job. He accuses the state’s politicians of ignoring the poor.
A stowaway spider discovered in a shipment of bananas is the second exotic arachnid to be rehomed in 12 months.
The South American tarantula was discovered in a food store delivery in West Sussex and was handed into a veterinary surgery before being taken away by the RSPCA.
Inspector Tony Woodley collected the 7.5cm spider and took it to Drusillas Park in Alfriston, East Sussex, after they agreed to give it a home.
Angela Hale, the zoo’s spider expert, said: “We had the arachnid identified by Dr Stuart Longhorn of the British Tarantula Society, one of the world’s leading taxonomists and experts on South American tarantulas. He confirmed the tarantula was a fully grown dwarf species known as Peruvian green velvet.”
The mayor of a New York village has spent a night in jail because some doors to a building hosting a children's day camp were locked.
The youth director of Spring Valley’s summer camp had a row with mayor Demeza Delhomme and was suspended. An attorney said that meant camp couldn’t be held.
State Supreme Court Justice Gerald Loehr ordered the mayor to open the civic centre building for the camp, and Delhomme assured him he had. But two trustees said some doors were still locked, and Delhomme was arrested.
A temporary toll road made from rolled chippings has been opened in south-west England.
Businessman Mike Watts decided to open the thoroughfare to bypass a closed section of the A431 between Bath and Bristol. The Kelston Road was shut in February following a landslip and officials say it will not be repaired until the end of the year.
But a new makeshift road, which costs £2 a time to use, reopens the important “back road”, which is used by commuters between the two cities. Locals in nearby Kelston have repeatedly criticised Bath &
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