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40 Alex Trelinski’s KEEPING IT PINK SOME of the best rainbows that I have ever seen have been here in Spain, but a Scottish photographer clicked something special, as he got a pink rainbow during sunrise. Sinclair Cunningham was out in the countryside looking to capture a striking pink sunrise on his camera, when he came across the rainbow. In eight years of taking pictures, the self-employed photographer says he has never seen a pink rainbow, which tends to occur either during sunrise or sunset. The rainbow appeared in the sky at 6.00am near the ‘Kissing Trees’ in Kinghorn, Fife. Sinclair said: ‘I turned round and saw the pink rainbow and just got into position to capture it with the Kissing Trees in the shot and the rainbow dipping down into it”. I suggest that Sinclair spends some time over here, and he will have a rainbow field day, assuming it rains. Back In SLOWEST CHASE EVER I love watching a good car chase in the movies or on the TV, but I’m not sure how high my excitement levels would have reached after a man was arrested last Saturday night after leading a leading a 14mph police chase in a stolen tractor! Armed police chased the runaway driver after he refused to pull over on a road in Lincolnshire, and attempted to stop the STRAY KITTY CHAOS SPARKY the kitten caused a lot She had heard the kitten’s meows of bother as he got trapped in a from her lounge but when she went out car, which then had to be partially and checked she could not find anything. dismantled, as Sparky was firmly She called her father and they eventually tracked the cries down to her car’s wedged in the engine compartment. Six-week-old stray Sparky’s plaintive cries were heard coming from Zoe A wheel and the headlights had to engine compartment. Slocombe’s parked car in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. and they wrapped him in a blanket and come out so they could reach the kitten , Her father then took the front of the gave him some food and water before car apart to get to the kitten. taking him to a vet. Ms Slocombe(cue pussy joke from “Are Experts said the little kitten was You Being Served” ?) said she wrapped lucky to have survived and he’s been the kitten in a blanket and he is now being cared for by the RSPCA. ing him a looked after by the RSPCA ahead of find- home. vehicle because it had no lights and was believed to be stolen. However, the driver ignored their warning signals and led the cops on Britain’s slowest ever pursuit – causing damage to one police vehicle. Armed officers were forced to get involved and form a road block to bring the motorist to a halt near Market Rasen. Don’t expect this chase to hit the big screen soon!
Britain FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER 2019 41 Puzzles & Tarotscope NESSIE’S AN EEL I’VE been to Loch Ness in Scotland a couple of times, and of course it’s all about spotting that monster, which of course has been a great fabrication just to boost tourism. But scientists from New Zealand reckon they have come up with an obvious reason for what Nessie might really be, namely giant eels. The researchers have tried to catalogue all living species in the loch by extracting DNA from water samples. Following analysis, the scientists SO much for some species of tra- ditional fish being served up with chips back in Britain, as a survey done by The Mirror newspaper shows all kinds of stuff, including endangered species of shark being sold at chippies. A DNA probe found dishes such as rock salmon contained spiny dogfish and starry smooth-hound. A Mirror investigation discovered threatened spiny dogfish and starry smooth-hound were being passed off have ruled out the presence of large animals said to be behind reports of a monster. No evidence of a prehistoric marine reptile called a plesiosaur or a large fish such as a sturgeon(Not, Nicola) were found. Catfish and suggestions that a wandering Greenland shark were behind the sightings were also discounted. But they have reached a conclusion that some of the Nessie sightings down the years may in fact have FISHY BUSINESS as rock salmon, huss and rock eels to unsuspecting customers. Campaigners have now called for better labelling so wholesalers and chippies know exactly what species of fish they are selling. Scientists tested 15 battered samples bought at resort towns including Bournemouth, Brighton, Clacton, Great Yarmouth, Newquay and Poole. The Marine Conservation Society said the research showed “most consumers are completely unaware of been giant European eels, based on the DNA samples. Not exciting, but using logic, we probably have the answer to the Loch Ness Monster sightings, and a blow to the local tourist industry. what they’re eating”. Its head of fisheries and aquaculture Samuel Stone added: “Chippies should provide better information and labelling at the point of sale.” That’s fair enough, but I suspect chippies are being sold stuff that is not the real deal, and I do have some sympathy for them. UNIFORM NONSENSE IT’S been “back to existing students. school” for the last So no skirts for week or so for many girls(really), and the argument is over “concerns” youngsters in the UK, and also in Spain, and over the length of the that means that there skirts, with the new rules had to be some institution getting em- of transgender pupils. also catering for a handful broiled in a row over 150 parents and pupils school uniforms. staged a protest over the I’m from the radical view of things that with the protestors say- gender neutral uniforms, they are an utter waste ing that the youngsters of time and money, and should have a choice to that the focus should be wear skirts, while others on education. believe clothes are being wasted. That’s why I especially have no time for the political correctness of the have had to buy trousers So returning pupils Priory School in Lewes, for the new school year, as West Sussex who crazily the skirts are dumped. decided to make trousers It just doesn’t make any compulsory for new and sense.
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