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Britain<br />
FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER 2019 41<br />
Puzzles & Tarotscope<br />
NESSIE’S AN EEL<br />
I’VE been to Loch Ness in Scotland<br />
a couple of times, and of<br />
course it’s all about spotting that<br />
monster, which of course has<br />
been a great fabrication just to<br />
boost tourism.<br />
But scientists from New Zealand<br />
reckon they have come up with an<br />
obvious reason for what Nessie might<br />
really be, namely giant eels.<br />
The researchers have tried to catalogue<br />
all living species in the loch by<br />
extracting DNA from water samples.<br />
Following analysis, the scientists<br />
SO much for some species of tra-<br />
ditional fish being served up with<br />
chips back in Britain, as a survey<br />
done by The Mirror newspaper<br />
shows all kinds of stuff, including<br />
endangered species of shark being<br />
sold at chippies.<br />
A DNA probe found dishes such as<br />
rock salmon contained spiny dogfish<br />
and starry smooth-hound.<br />
A Mirror investigation discovered<br />
threatened spiny dogfish and starry<br />
smooth-hound were being passed off<br />
have ruled out the presence<br />
of large animals<br />
said to be behind reports<br />
of a monster.<br />
No evidence of a prehistoric<br />
marine reptile called a plesiosaur<br />
or a large fish such as a<br />
sturgeon(Not, Nicola) were found.<br />
Catfish and suggestions that a wandering<br />
Greenland shark were behind<br />
the sightings were also discounted.<br />
But they have reached a conclusion<br />
that some of the Nessie sightings<br />
down the years may in fact have<br />
FISHY BUSINESS<br />
as rock salmon, huss and rock eels to<br />
unsuspecting customers.<br />
Campaigners have now called for<br />
better labelling so wholesalers and<br />
chippies know exactly what species of<br />
fish they are selling.<br />
Scientists tested 15 battered samples<br />
bought at resort towns including<br />
Bournemouth, Brighton, Clacton,<br />
Great Yarmouth, Newquay and Poole.<br />
The Marine Conservation Society<br />
said the research showed “most consumers<br />
are completely unaware of<br />
been giant European eels, based on<br />
the DNA samples.<br />
Not exciting, but using logic, we<br />
probably have the answer to the Loch<br />
Ness Monster sightings, and a blow<br />
to the local tourist industry.<br />
what they’re eating”.<br />
Its head of fisheries and aquaculture<br />
Samuel Stone added: “Chippies should<br />
provide better information and labelling<br />
at the point of sale.”<br />
That’s fair enough, but I suspect<br />
chippies are being sold stuff that is not<br />
the real deal, and I do have some sympathy<br />
for them.<br />
UNIFORM<br />
NONSENSE<br />
IT’S been “back to existing students.<br />
school” for the last So no skirts for<br />
week or so for many girls(really), and the argument<br />
is over “concerns”<br />
youngsters in the UK,<br />
and also in Spain, and over the length of the<br />
that means that there skirts, with the new rules<br />
had to be some institution<br />
getting em-<br />
of transgender pupils.<br />
also catering for a handful<br />
broiled in a row over 150 parents and pupils<br />
school uniforms. staged a protest over the<br />
I’m from the radical<br />
view of things that with the protestors say-<br />
gender neutral uniforms,<br />
they are an utter waste ing that the youngsters<br />
of time and money, and should have a choice to<br />
that the focus should be wear skirts, while others<br />
on education.<br />
believe clothes are being<br />
wasted.<br />
That’s why I especially<br />
have no time for the political<br />
correctness of the have had to buy trousers<br />
So returning pupils<br />
Priory School in Lewes, for the new school year, as<br />
West Sussex who crazily the skirts are dumped.<br />
decided to make trousers It just doesn’t make any<br />
compulsory for new and sense.
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