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			<title><![CDATA[14th Century ASBO]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Today's society urges people to report fly-tipping and other such nuisances, which is the same as our forebears did 700 years ago and it just so happens that their complaints have survived on a rare medieval document, the Assize of Nuisance, which has provided an insight into an age-old problem. 
The document reveals that Alice Wade, who was alive in the 14th Century living in London, could not tolerate the smell of her own poo! This was in an age when the majority of her fellow citizens relieved themselves in chamber pots and clandestinely tipped the smelly contents out of the window, however she had a toilet in its own small room. 
However 700 years ago a toilet was a hole cut in a wooden platform placed over a cesspool and the smell which came from it was very disgusting. In order to solve this problem Alice rigged up a wooden pipe which connected her toilet to a rainwater gutter which flushed a nearby public latrine. 
This meant that he solids from her toilet blocked the gutter and her neighbours were very inconvenienced by the smell so the city authorities ordered that she removed the pipe with a 40 day period. 
The case of Alice Wade is number 214 in the Assize of Nuisance - a list of grievances made against irksome neighbours in London from 1301-1431. All of the complaints were recorded in abbreviated Latin, which was the language for official proceedings at the time, according to Elizabeth Scudder of London Metropolitan Archives, where this 700 year old document is kept. 
Not surprisingly only a few documents survives from this era, but other British cities would also have similar records, according to Scudder. Northampton had a very early recording of nuisances which date from the late 12th century. 
More than 700 years later, complaints against neighbours are still occurring, however nowadays they relate more to noise, fly-tipping, and anti-social behaviour and most local councils have dedicated help-lines to process these complaints. In medieval times, these complaints concerned misdirected, leaking or otherwise noisome privies, as the medieval cities did not have an infrastructure which was able to cope with the disposal of human waste - it was mainly dumped in rivers or trodden into the ground. 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:35:08 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Best friends who want to be girls]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Cindy Jackson and Natalie Brammer, both 19 years old, enjoy nothing more than getting ready to go out on a night on a tiles together, sharing their wardrobes of party dresses and killer heels, spending a small fortune on fake tan, fake eyelashes and hair extensions in an attempt to emulate their idols Cheryl Cole and Katie Price. But these two friends are not exactly what they seem to be. 
The best friends, once named Nathan and Richard, who now live in Leeds, were born in male bodies. Striking up a friendship from the age of 12 the pair both felt like they were growing up in the wrong bodies and are now planning sex change operations to fully become women. 
When Cindy turned 16 she decided to live as a woman full time, Natalie struggled to accept her female identity and in 2008 the pair even fell out when Natalie accused Cindy of trying to 'turn' her. She said that deep down Natalie knew she was meant to be a woman and took out her anger and frustration on Cindy. Natalie even went to live with her male cousin in an attempt to repress her feminine said. She shaved her said, started wearing tracksuits and drinking a lot. 
After bumping into each other at a party Natalie realised she had been living a lie as she saw how happy Cindy was living as a woman and so for the past year Natalie had also been living as a full time woman with Cindy and both have been lucky enough to finally have been accepted by their families. 
Although both have to wait for their gender reassignment surgery the girls do all themselves to be more feminine such as waxing their legs, shaving their arms and stuffing their bras. Cindy is also undergoing monthly counselling sessions to fully prepare her for the sex change and is due to start hormone therapy in a couple of weeks. 
Cindy's big dream is to have 4,000 pound breast implants to give her a 36GG chest to become just like her idol Katie Price. But in the long term both friends wish to have facial surgery to make their features more feminine but neither will be completely happy until they have had a full sex change. 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:59:34 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Snake killing boobs]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[It's not every day that a human is able to poison a giant boa constrictor with their boobs, but it has happened! Busty Glamour model Orit Fox survived a deadly encounter with the humongous snake thanks to her surgically enhanced breasts. Now those really are killer curves! 
Fox, Israel's answer to Katie Price, was exposed to the giant snake for a run of the mill photo shoot, but things got nasty when the dangerous prop decided to take a bite out of her left breast. As Orit was being rushed to the hospital to get a tetanus injection, shockingly the snake came off worse and ended up dying due to silicon poisoning. 
A Spanish TV channel, Telecino, caught the incident on film and it has now been seen by thousands of people all over the world. The strange footage shows the blonde bombshell posing for the shoot, which was for Tel Aviv radio station, wrapping the snake around her legs, neck, and waist and then getting in a sexy pose. However, once the snake was nestling into her large cleavage, she opts to get an even sexier picture by licking the snakes face. 
But, this was not a good idea as the moment Fox loosened her grip on the reptile it launched into her bosom, sinking it's fangs into her left breast and although Orit was screaming, the snake stayed latched on to her skin for a couple of seconds before the assistant manager was able to prise it off! 
Orit was rushed to a hospital near Jerusalem and received the all-clear after a routine observation and given a tetanus shot. Although Orit's assets received no long term damage, it seems the bite was the kiss of death for the snake who died a few days later. 
This is not the only strange incident which has involved surgically enhanced breasts. Others include that of Japanese model, Serena Kozakura, who overturned a property destruction conviction with the help of her 44inch chest. Her boyfriend claimed the model kicked in his door and crawled inside to find another woman, but her defence proved that there was no way Serena, 40, could have fit through the 11inch hole as a result of her chest. 
One woman, Californian Lydia Carranza, owes her life to her breast implant. She was shot at point blank range with a semi-automatic rifle, but her life was saved as the force of the bullet was absorbed by her D-cup implant. Although the bullet did pierce her arm, the implant prevented bullet fragments from reaching vital organs. 
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:22:06 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Shes paying]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[A new piece of research has revealed that women are far more likely to pay their way on a date if they consider the man to be unattractive; however good-looking women are most likely to just sit back and let the male pay for the entire bill. 
This study was conducted by researchers at St Andrews University, which included setting up hypothetical blind dates between 416 men and women who were between the ages of 20 and 35. The women were then asked a series of different questions which included rating themselves regarding their attractiveness on a scale of one to seven. In this situation seven signified 'very attractive' and one stood for 'unattractive'. 
Each couple was then asked how they would prefer to pay their outstanding bill. The results showed that approximately half of the couples preferred to split the bill regardless of sex, although the men were typically more likely to pay the whole thing. 
The results also proved the hypothesis right, that both men and women who considered themselves to be very attractive were far less likely to front the bill. However, one of the more surprising results was that women were less willing to let a man they found unattractive pay for them because paying half the bill means that they are not obligated to see them again. But, not surprisingly, the study found that men were much happier to pay the entire bill if they found their date attractive. 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:15:19 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Weird science]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week was a week of weird science and here is a list of all the strange things which either occur naturally on the Earth or have been created by science geeks!
Zombie ants - Yes, Zombie ants actually exists in the Brazilian rain forest. Entomologists have discovered four different species of a mind altering fungi which is able to turn ants into zombies! When the fungi spores are ingested by the ants they involuntarily walk on to a sunny leaf so that the fungus is able to grow, take over the ant's body and then release spores for over a year! 
Mind controlling mosquitoes - There is a breed of mosquito which conducts mind control while having sex! The male mosquito sperm actually release proteins which are able to change the behaviour of females, after mating they mate less and eat less blood. Scientists are trying to manipulate these proteins to alter female behaviour so that they do not bite and therefore do no spread diseases like Denguefever. 
NASA shoot space junk with a laser - There are approximately 20,000 pieces of 'space junk' floating within the Earth's low orbit such as old satellites, old parts of satellites and parts of these parts. As a result of this space flight is becoming more and more dangerous. For example, a stray bolt which is travelling at 5 miles per second is able to do some serious damage to a space shuttle. So, NASA scientists are contemplating focusing the mid-powered laser beams through a telescope to knock this 'junk' into outer space. 
Possible time travel - Switzerland is home to the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, which is the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Theoretical physicists from Vanderbilt University think that this could be used to create a type of particle which is able to travel through time. 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:40:06 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Addictions too much for TV]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[American TV channel TLC has been somewhat of a pioneer when it comes to teaching its viewers, although some of the subjects which are brought to their attention can be considered more than a little uncomfortable to actually learn about. One of the key examples of these uncomfortable topics is their show 'My Strange Addiction', which airs in American on a Wednesday night. 
Some of the different episodes have shown various clips which demonstrate just how uneasy this show can make its audience feel, such as Kimberly who has developed an addiction enabling her to be as thin as possible. Her addiction not only means that she spends an average of 1/3 of her monthly salary on laxatives but she additionally wears various weight loss belts on her body for roughly 23 hours per day! 
Bianca is another example of someone with a very strange addiction. This young women has one of the strangest addictions ever, she eats pottery and cigarette ashes, surely not very good for your health. 
Whereas some people find this kind of viewing extremely entertaining allowing them into the secret worlds of individual people, others find it very disturbing. 
Do you know people who have these kinds of unbelievable addictions or obsessions why not enter them into the show as TLC are currently looking for new people to feature in their series. 
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:43:45 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Some of the strangest facts about Pokemon]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Pokemon Black and White has hit our screens worldwide and it seems that everyone is embracing the monster-catching phenomenon once again so, to celebrate the release of the newest strain of Pokemon we have put together some of the strangest factoids about the long-running video game series. Enjoy! 
Fact 1 - Pokemon have been accused of Racism, Nazism and Satanism
As always, a phenomenon as large as Pokemon will always generate controversy without even trying. In the first batch of games to come out of this large brand, people called the character of Jynx as a racist stereotype of black people, although the Pokemon monster is in fact a reference to Japanese 'ganguro' fashion. Even stranger than this fundamentalist Christian groups linked Pokemon to Satanism founded on the series' use of evolution, along with gambling and pagan worship! 
Fact 2 - Pokemon Comics far 'Too Sexy' for America
The Japanese magazine CoroCoro Comic released an official Pokemon manga series which was called 'Dengeki Pikachu' back in 1997. However, when it was published in America a couple of years later, sold as 'The Electric Tale of Pikachu', the single issue copies seemed to have missed a few rounds at the editing table as the comics included several characters drawn with large breasts and a deep cleavage - a trademark of the artist, hentai specialist Toshihiro Ono. VIZ Media finally caught on and released edited versions of the comic series. However the unedited scans are still available on the internet. 
Fact 3 - Pokemon World Championship is an Annual Event
Every year the Pokemon Company hosts a video-game championship tournament as well as a trading-card game tournament, which typically sees competitors from across the world. Some countries even put together teams which attempt to dominate the ranks in their own specific brackets - such as Team Japan's notoriously skilled crop of Pokemon athletes. There is even a senior division, which is full of people within their twenties! 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:32:51 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charlie Sheens Self Cure Claim]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[It does not matter whether you are deliberately watching Charlie Sheen go from TV actor to celebrity train wreck or you have simply heard about it in passing, the 'Two and a Half Men' star has caused a right stir when it comes to his criticisms of the addition treatment industry. 
Mr Sheen's television rantings against Algoholics Anonymous, his statements that he possesses 'tiger's blood' and has been able to cure himself of booze and drugs through 'his mind' have raised eyebrows amongst the professionals who make careers out of treating people who suffer from addictions. 
So, the question remains, can you quit smoking, drugs, and/or alcohol by sheer will power alone? Experts have said that although it is possible many who do do this relapse or weren't technically addicted in the first place. 
"Lots of people can quit on their own for a short time, but there's always the risk they may return to use and that happens frequently," said Ryan Vandrey, assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. 
For everyone who has not been keeping up to date by reading the tabloids, Charlie Sheen has made public history of stays in various different rehabilitation centres, dating back to the 1990s. Additionally he has been arrested in several publicised domestic violent episodes and also accidentally shot his then girlfriend. 
However, in past few days things have started to get weird. CBS even shut down production of their top rated show 'Two and a Half Men' after Sheen's verbal attacks against the show's producer. Sheen stated that he left rehab to cure himself at home with his two girlfriend's who he calls 'The Goddesses' and this week, an LA judge has issued an order to remove his two-year-old twins from his home after allegations of violence were made by his soon to be ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, who too has a public history of drug use. 
"This is one of the big myths that the treatment industry perpetuates on the public," said A. Thomas Horvath, a psychologist and president of Practical Recovery, a San Diego treatment center. "The majority of the public do so on their own. Rehab in itself is no panacea or (Sheen) wouldn't have to go so many times." 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:34:28 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why are women attracted to weedy men]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[It seems that more and more women are falling for skinny, pot bellied, pasty men, rather than the toned, tanned and well groomed men which are pasted all over the adverts and marketing we see on high-end products. But why? 
Apparently these weedy men have an appeal because they are obviously not gay, nor a preening and self-obsessed man and so would be extremely grateful to get a girlfriend and therefore be much more attentive and generous in the bedroom department compared to their metro sexual counterpart. 
However, it seems that Hollywood do not understand that the typical woman will often find the slightly less attractive man far more appealing and interesting than a pristine dream boat, like those plastered all over the billboards. 
And so when Rhys Ifans appeared in that famous Notting Hill scene, standing in the doorway in a saggy, grey pair of Y-fronts, in his pasty skin and bad hair, not only did he seal his destiny as a huge star he also became catnip for women who are totally fed up with men that spend more time in front of the mirror than themselves, and stealing their moisturiser. 
So, why was it that Julia Roberts fell for Hugh Grant in Notting Hill when she could have had his best friend Rhys? 
Rhys Ifans is often spotted, donning only a dressing gown, leaving the homes of beautiful women; many men would kill to be with, in the early hours of the morning. Invariably these women all appear to be suffering with disenchantment of dating men who resemble the Calvin Klein adverts we all see, but who are additionally so boring and uninterested in the world that talking to them is like banging your head against a brick wall. 
Ifans is now apparently dating the stunning actress Anna Friel, who has broken up with her long-term partner and the father of her 5 year old daughter, Gracie, Harry Potter star, David Thewlis. But she is not the only looker to be won over by Ifans unique charms. Ifans has had a series of knock-out girlfriends over the past couple of years including designer Kimberly Stewart and actress Sienna Miller. 
Anna met weedy Ifans when they began filming Peter Pan prequel Neverland back in September 2010 and it was his relaxed and fun view on life which drew Friel in. Once saying that he had been on a rollercoaster ever since he left the womb! Surely a fun man wins over a fake-tanning one anyday? 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:39:34 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hunt is on for Doorstep Flasher]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The police are asking witnessed to step forward to give a statement after a man had indecently exposed himself in a park in Peterborough. The officers who are investigating the case began after a woman was confronted by a flasher in Queen's Drive West, which is near Central Park. 
The whole drama started when the woman, who does not wish to be names, was approached by the man on Sunday, 23rd January at 12.05pm. The occurrence started when he asked her for the time, and as she looked at check for him she realised that the individual was exposing himself. 
The woman, who has branded the pervert as 'disgusting' and after confronting hum she threatened to ring the police. However, after he fled he was later seen loitering near the Queen's Drive Primary School. 
Councillor of Park Ward, John Peach, who was asked to pass around the information by the victim to want other potential women who could be approached, has urged the residents to come forward and talk to the police if they see anyone suspicious hanging around, the flasher and especially if they are approached by him. 
He said: "It is a bit concerning to know this man is hanging around but the neighbourhood policing team have assured me they are looking into it. Someone must have seen something as it is strange behaviour and he would have stood out." 
The Cambridgeshire Police have additionally confirmed that they're looking into whether or not the case is linked to three incidents of indecent exposure which occurred in October and November. These cases involved a man who approached girls as young as 5 near the Matley Primary School, in Orton Brimbles, Leighton Primary School, in Orton Malborne, and Orton Longueville School. 
The Police have said that they cannot yet make a concrete connection however they have issued a description of the Queen's Drive West flasher in the hope that a public appeal will lead to an arrest. A spokeswoman said that the man is described as approximately 5ft 3in tall and in his late 20s, of slight build and is clean shaven. 
His clothing is also described as wearing as a grey woollen hat, anorak and skinny leg trousers and is believed to have a foreign accent. 
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			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:39:17 +0000</pubDate>			<category>Strange News</category>
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