Quirky World ... Old McDonald’s colleagues chip in for 90th birthday
Great-grandfather and Second World War veteran Bill Dudley, from Connah’s Quay in North Wales, joined the fast food giant’s Mold, Flintshire, restaurant as a part-time member of the customer care team nine years ago after he grew “bored” pottering around the house.
Here's Bill Dudley, our oldest #McDonalds employee celebrating his 90th birthday! Thanks for all your hard work Bill! pic.twitter.com/nWm9sxYOKX
— McDonald's UK News (@McDonaldsUKNews) April 8, 2015
Dudley said his wife, who calls him “Old McDonald”, refused to let him help with the gardening after he retired from his job as a crane driver — so he applied for a job at his local restaurant.
Europe's oldest McDonald's employee celebrates 90th birthday and has no plans to retire yet
A 150-year-old lamp belonging to pioneering health reformer Florence Nightingale is going under the hammer.
The rare brass lamp would have stood on nurse Nightingale’s writing desk rather than being the famous hand lamp she carried while tending the injured soldiers in the Crimean War.
Auctioneer Charles Hanson said it was a “remarkable” find, originating from the family home in Derbyshire.
“If only it could talk, it could tell us so much about the passion Florence had for her work and the wellbeing of others,” he said.
Streets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighbourhood, blocks away from fancy stores and long queues of tourists waiting for cable cars, have been cleaner since solar-powered toilets began rolling in four afternoons per week.
The city’s mobile toilets are guarded by attendants and have been so successful that officials say Honolulu, Portland, and New York have already inquired about them in seeking solutions to similar sanitation problems.
Supporters of the pilot programme say that having accessible public toilets has made the neighbourhood known for crime, homelessness, and poverty more liveable.
San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim supported the programme’s creation, saying the toilets afford “people some dignity to take care of a human need”.
Customs officials at Kennedy International Airport say they discovered shrink-wrapped cylinders filled with 0.91kg of heroin in the underwear of a Colombian man arriving in the US.
Customs and border protection officers reported that the drug was found in the passenger’s groin area when he was searched in a private room.
The suspect, Ivan Vidal Forero, faces federal narcotics smuggling charges. He was arrested last week after he got off a flight from Bogota and was handed over to Homeland Security investigators.
The two cylinders contained a powdery substance that tested positive for heroin, with an estimated street value of over $61,000 (€56,000). The case is to be prosecuted in Brooklyn federal court.
A 180kg alligator safely hauled out of a Texas pond has a new home at a tourist attraction that caters to gators.
Gator Country preserve owner Gary Saurage said the 11ft reptile joins more than 400 other alligators at the preserve in Beaumont, Texas.
Saurage got the animal after a landowner in nearby Groves called about an aggressive alligator in a rural pond where children swim. Saurage went to the swampy site to rope and remove the male alligator, which he estimates is 35 to 40 years old.
Gary Saurage and the boys at it again! Today, they caught this 11 foot, 400 lb gator in #groves pic.twitter.com/noYJDbOERs
— Vanessa Broussard (@VanessaBNews) April 6, 2015
Saurage said the alligator is healthy and he is happy to give the “majestic animal” a new home. The biggest creature at Gator Country is a 12ft6in alligator nicknamed Kong.
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