Quirky World...Comedian gets £50 ticket after handing over £5000 cheque to charity
The comic had just presented a giant cheque to staff at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, when he returned to his car and found a ÂŁ50 ticket on the windscreen.
Woman charged with chewing a police car
A northern Idaho woman has been charged after police say she chewed up the upholstery of a patrol car seat.
The Bonner County Daily Bee reports 42-year-old Staci Anne Spence was charged with malicious injury to property, resisting arrest and battery on an officer.
Spence has not yet entered a plea.
Prosecutors say Spence was arrested after deputies came to her home to investigate a battery report. The deputies wrote in a court statement that when they arrived at the Bonner County Jail, they found that Spence had chewed through the patrol vehicle’s upholstery and into the foam cushioning.
Breakfast show host Nick Grimshaw is undergoing intensive training in an effort to set a new world record — for twerking.
The BBC Radio 1 star is practising to establish a duration record for the dance craze by constantly wiggling his hips and thrusting his bottom out for an entire hour.
He aims to set his record beginning at 8.30am on September 30, with live coverage during his programme as an official from Guinness World Records monitors his progress in the studio.
Police say a man who thought he was breaking into a Vermont school actually got into the local police station.
WFFF-TV reports the man, identified as 59-year-old John Dettor of Washington, DC, told police he wanted a warm place to stay.
Police say Dettor used a traffic cone to break the glass to get into the police station in Shelburne, thinking it was a school.
Police have busted a phony VIP taxi service in Greece that was using the bank accounts of homeless people to collect deposits from cab drivers.
Police spokesman Christos Parthenis said seven people have been arrested, accused of taking more than €110,000 in deposits from drivers who were promised a customer list that would include officials from the European Commission and the World Health Organisation.
A British ukulele orchestra has lost a High Court duel with a German rival which uses an English name.
The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain failed to persuade a judge that its reputation could be unfairly tarnished by the appearance of the United Kingdom Ukulele Orchestra — which is based in Germany but made up of British musicians.
Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain bosses claimed their German rival was infringing name trademark rights.
A Virginia preschool teacher has been arrested and charged with assault and battery after she allegedly punished a 13-month-old boy by biting his shoulder, police said.
Theresa Brown, 24, is accused of biting the toddler on September 11 at The Goddard School in Woodbridge, Virginia, according to Prince William County police.
Brown bit the child, leaving a visible mark, as punishment after he had bitten another teacher, police said.
A witness reported the incident to the school’s 24-year-old co-owner, Nadia Choudhry. Choudhry did not report the incident and was charged with failing to report the offence to authorities, which state law requires,.
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