Spanish nuns face fine for restoring church organ
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-fr ... e-42009290
16 November 2017
A convent of Spanish nuns is facing a steep bill for having a priceless
church organ repaired without the state's permission. The sisters of
Santa Ines in Seville, southern Spain, decided that the instrument in
their convent church needed to be fixed, and accepted an offer from a
local charity to have it restored it for free.
"It hasn't worked for 30 years, and we couldn't afford the estimated
cost of more than 150,000 euros ($177,000; £135,000 )," Abbess Blanca
Cervantes told the ABC de Sevilla newspaper. "We only make enough money
from the sale of sweets to cover our bills and national insurance
payments."
But the regional government of Andalusia did not see it that way, and
has fined the convent a hefty 170,000 euros for the "unauthorised" work
on the organ. It has, however, said it will let the charity finish the
restoration work in time for Christmas. ........>
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Date Posted：12/05/2012 10:53 PMCopy HTML Birds use cigarette butts to line nests, St Andrews University study findshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-20607413 5 December 2012 Birds are keeping their nests warm and pest-free by lining them with cigarette butts, research at St Andrews University has suggested. The nicotine and other chemicals in discarded filters act as a natural pesticide that repels parasitic mites. At the same time, the cellulose butts provide useful nest insulation. Wild birds are also known to protect their nests from mite invasion by importing certain chemical-emitting plants. The new evidence suggests some bird species in the cities have adapted the same behaviour to harness the repellent properties of tobacco. St Andrews University scientists studied nests of house sparrows and house finches that each contained, on average, about 10 used cigarette butts in Mexico City. The number of stubbed-out cigarettes incorporated into the nests ranged from none to as many as 48. In both species, nests with larger numbers of butts were significantly less infested by mites.............> |
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Re：Just Fancy That! Date Posted：08/12/2017 8:59 PMCopy HTML Sunderland gas explosion survivor 'saved by fridge'A woman survived a gas blast which destroyed a house because a fridge fell on her, her sister has said. Susan Shepherd was pulled from the rubble of her home in Rosslyn Avenue, Sunderland, following the explosion on Friday morning. The semi-detached was flattened by the blast and a neighbouring property was heavily damaged. Tracy Tia Judson said her sister, who is in her 50s, suffered minor burns and was able to talk to ambulance staff. Writing on Facebook, Ms Judson said: "The fridge fell on top of her and saved her life, she's absolutely fine under the circumstances, she's got minor burns to her back, face and arms and her hip might need stitching."..........> (not very interactive here but should work in link) Tyne & Wear Fire Service image (video in link)
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Re：Just Fancy That! Date Posted：09/09/2017 5:04 PMCopy HTML https://www.indy100.com/article/eu-flag-uk-burning-regulations-flame-retardant-article-50-brexit-7657391
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Re：Just Fancy That! Date Posted：01/02/2018 9:15 PMCopy HTML  http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/new ... 30796.html
The Dutch-based aviation consultancy, To70, has released its Civil Aviation Safety Review for 2017. It reports only two fatal accidents, both involving small turbo-prop aircraft, with a total of 13 lives lost. No jets crashed in passenger service anywhere in the world. The two crashes which occurred on New Year’s Eve – a seaplane in Sydney which killed six, and a Cessna Caravan which crashed in Costa Rica, killing all 12 on board – are not included in the tally, since both aircraft weighed under 5,700kg - the threshold for the report. The first fatal accident included in the report was in October: an Embraer Brasilia operating as an air ambulance in Angola. The pilots lost control after reportedly suffering an engine failure, Seven people died, including the patient. In November, a Czech-built Let 410 belonging to Khabarovsk Avia crashed on landing at Nelkan in the Russian Far East with the loss of six lives. A four-year-old girl was the only survivor............> |
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Re：Just Fancy That! Date Posted：01/16/2018 10:43 PMCopy HTML Moscow's 2017 December was its 'darkest' on record16 January 2018 December set the record for the least amount of sunshine seen in Moscow, Russian weather experts say. "The sun didn't come out even once for the entire month," said the weather website Meteonovosti. According to Russia's main weather centre, the sun did shine for six minutes. But normally Muscovites get dozens of hours of December sunshine. Russian winters are famously freezing, but this week the cold in Yakutia, in the far east, dipped below -60C (-76F). It is about -7C in Moscow...........> |
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Re：Just Fancy That! Date Posted：05/26/2018 9:32 AMCopy HTML Ah, memories of the good old days;
Turkmens warned over presidential toilet paper http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-fr ... e-44236375 24 May 2018 Local police in Turkmenistan are inspecting toilets for evidence that locals have been using newspapers containing photographs of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to wipe themselves, it's been reported. The regional police in the western region of Balkan have allegedly instructed community policing officers to check toilets in public places and private houses, and to find evidence of people using newspapers with pictures of the country's president as tissue paper, Moscow-based news website Fergana.ru - known for its credible reporting on Turkmen affairs - reports. Officers have been told to look for the Turkmen leader's "soiled" pictures at landfill sites, as well as among garbage at waste collection points. "There is a special janitor at each landfill site whose job is to inspect garbage, to look for soiled newspaper photos, to establish the house or flat of the newspaper subscriber and to report it to the police," Fergana says. It adds that people found guilty of "damaging" the president's image will be issued with a warning. But, according to the Alternativnnyy Novosti Turkmenistana website, there are likely to be a huge number of issued warnings, as Turkmens - impoverished from an ongoing economic crisis - do not tend to spend their money on toilet paper. "Why buy toilet papers if you have piles of newspapers which people in Turkmenistan are forced to subscribe to," the report says. It adds that it is difficult not to soil the Turkmen leader's photos because his pictures dominate all newspapers. The loo paper crackdown comes after several children were reportedly detained over damaging portraits of Mr Berdimuhamedov. US-funded Radio Azatlyk claims. It describes one such case where children dropped Mr Berdimuhamedov's portrait and trampled on it while playing. In another instance, children were reportedly detained for adding a mustache and a beard to the picture of the country's autocratic leader.  Mr Berdimuhamedov has led Turkmenistan since 2007, where he has ruled autocratically and built up a personality cult |
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Re：Just Fancy That! Date Posted：08/11/2018 9:12 PMCopy HTML Cows allowed to visit Swedish nudist beaches in heatwavehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-45144424
The government in southern Sweden have granted permission for cows to visit nudist beaches during the prolonged summer heatwave, despite complaints from locals, it's reported. According to The Local news website, nudists have been complaining to officials in provincial Smaland about livestock visiting their beaches, saying that their presence is "unhygienic and could pose a health risk". It says the roasting summer heat affecting much of continental Europe has led to drought throughout the country, and has meant that farmers have been struggling to feed their animals. This has meant that some farmers have decided to slaughter their cattle earlier than usual; but others have instead decided to bring their livestock to nearby nudist beaches, in order to cool them down, public broadcaster SVT reports. "When it's this dry, you don't want cows to be brought to slaughter out of necessity. They need to be able to bathe, eat and drink," municipal official Peter Bengtsson says. Complaints from bathers have led to municipal Vaxjo's Culture and Leisure Department taking a vote on whether the cattle were ok to visit, and have ruled they "have just as much right to be there as the human visitors"..........................>
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