QUIRKY WORLD... Top-price houses? They’re all down the lane
A property with the word Lane in its address has an average value of £245,906 (€346,982), which is 22% or £44,660 more than the typical UK house price, at £201,246, according to research for Barclays Mortgages.
A home at an address containing the word Way was found to be the next most valuable, with a price tag of £218,742 on average, followed by a property with the word Road in its address, worth £212,717 typically.
A wallet which had been missing for more than 30 years has been returned to its owner — complete with all of its original contents.
Containing an old £1 note and a handful of coins, the wallet was found down the back of a seat in a carriage undergoing restoration at the North Norfolk Railway.
Train driver Michael Massey turned detective to track down its owner, equipped only with old documents carrying the name “Derek B Gamble” and an out-of-date address in Rugby, Warwickshire.
China has released a blacklist of songs it says promote obscenity or violence and ordered website administrators to remove them from their sites.
The order from the Ministry of Culture accompanied the list of 120 songs that “trumpeted obscenity, violence, crime or harmed social morality”. The list contains Chinese-language songs, and some are by household names in China, including Taiwanese pop singer Chang Csun Yuk and actor Stanley Huang.
Chang’s blacklisted songs include ‘Fart’, with the line “There are some people in the world who like farting while doing nothing”.
The list will be updated regularly.
Customs police have seized 49kg of pure cocaine hidden in a container transporting frozen totani, a kind of squid, on a cargo ship from Argentina.
Reggio Calabria prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho said that the cocaine, if sold on the street, would have raked in over €10m. No arrests were immediately announced in connection with the seizure.
The cocaine was found in Gioia Tauro, a port considered largely under the sway of the ’ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Investigators say the Calabria-based ’ndrangheta is by far the biggest trafficker of cocaine in Europe. The prosecutor said police and customs officials have been intensifying controls in the port.
A man in a powered paraglider has caused a brief mid-air police chase after flying past a jail in California.
A sheriff’s helicopter began pursuing the aircraft after prison officials at Los Angeles County’s Pitchess Detention Centre spotted the fly-by. The 67-year-old pilot at first did not obey orders to stop, but landed a few minutes later near a paintball playing field.
The pilot said he had not heard them due to the motorised fan at the back, adding the winds took him near the prison.
Authorities say they were still investigating, but the man had no contraband, was not spotted dropping anything and was not arrested or cited.
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