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When you are on holiday, keep a bar of scented soap in the same compartment of your suitcase where you keep your dirty laundry. This will help to keep your clothes smelling clean (even if they aren’t).
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West THUMBS Midlands’ UP! oldest man to be baton carrier
A 109-year-old man is to be one of the carriers of the Queen’s Baton before the Commonwealth Games, BBC News reports. John Farringdon, who is thought to be the oldest man in the West Midlands, will carry the baton in Kenilworth, as it makes its journey through the country towards Aston Hall in Birmingham on July 28, the day of the Commonwealth Games’ opening ceremony. John, who worked for Ford for more than 40 years, says that to carry the baton is “a great honour”. He is one of hundreds of people selected to carry the baton on its journey.
Quote of the month
You’ve got to get up every morning with determination, if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. George Lorimer
Did you know?
Speeding tickets are an English invention. The first ticket was handed to Walter Arnold way back in 1896, when he was caught travelling at four times the speed limit in Kent. While this sounds serious, the limit back then was 2mph, and he was fined for reaching 8mph!
World’s largest plant discovered PUB QUIZ in Australia
1. Which nation has won the men’s FIFA World Cup on the most occasions? 2. What is the world’s hottest chilli? 3. In which year did the classic US sitcom Friends first air in the UK?
The biggest plant of the world has been discovered off the coast of Australia,
BBC News reports. The seagrass, which is about three times the size of Manhattan,
was discovered at Shark Bay in Western Australia by a team of scientists.
The underwater meadow has been
tested by a team from the University of Western Australia and it is believed to have
spread from a single seed. It now covers about 77 square miles and is estimated to have been growing for some 4,500 years!
What’s more, it was only discovered by accident. The researchers had been investigating the genetic diversity of the species, which is often found along parts of the Australian coast. They collected samples from across the bay and checked 18,000 genetic markers for each shoot, with the aim of finding out how many plants were contained in the meadow.
4. Who wrote the song ‘I Will Always Love You’? 5. Which movie actor is Kate Hudson’s mother?
Goldie Hawn: 5. Dolly Parton: 4. 1995
: 3. Carolina reaper: 2. Brazil (five times – 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002): 1. Answers
Knock me down with a feather
Missing cat found on oil rig – five years after it went missing
An adventurous cat has been returned to its owner more than five years after he disappeared, having been found on an oil rig off the coast of Scotland, reports Sky News. Surprised rig workers found the cat in a shipping container. He was then flown back to the mainland by helicopter. After this his microchip was checked by SPCA staff, which revealed the cat was actually called Dexter, who had disappeared from his home five years ago.
It later emerged what Dexter had been up to for a least some of those five years – he had been living around Peterhead Prison in Aberdeenshire, where prison staff had fed him and even nicknamed him ‘one-eyed Joe’.
