SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 23.7.9
CAPTION: Bastards Baptisms
THE Church of England will offer combined wedding and baptism services, officials say, as research shows increasing numbers of couples in Britain are having children out of wedlock.
Although the church does not sanction couples having children before marriage, officials said the new services were aimed at encouraging unmarried parents to eventually tie the knot.
The service, to be unveiled later today, allows couples to baptise their children after their wedding ceremony, and parents themselves can also get baptised at the same time.
A church spokesman said clergy would continue to teach that sex is best confined to marriage, but also recognise that it was "not standing in judgment on their past".
"The Church of England believes that the best place for sex is within marriage, and marriage is best for bringing up children. That hasn't changed," the spokesman said
HEADLINE: Police tweet to keep drunk twits off road
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 22.7.9
CAPTION: Tweet, tweet, I thought I saw a police officer
IT'S safe to say Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Ken Lay isn't the grooviest bloke in Australia.
But the bespectacled police face of state road safety is the latest convert to the wonderful world of Twitter.
Mr Lay will tweet tonight, posting updates on a surprise major breathalyser blitz to be launched somewhere in the state.
He will discuss the "embarrassingly boozy breath readings recorded" of twits caught by police, Victoria Police said.
He'll also be sacrificing his Milo and slippers for the night to try to connect with young drivers in the hope of making them realise the dangers of getting behind the wheel under the influence...
HEADLINE: Teenager harassed by KFC manager
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 22.7.9
CAPTION: KFC Idiot Manager
KFC has been ordered to pay $15,000 to a young worker as compensation for sexual harassment by an assistant manager who "growled" at her like a cat, dragged her by the leg across a floor, and asked her to swim naked at Bondi Beach.
The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal found the then teenage worker had been sexually harassed and it was satisfied that she would have been offended, humiliated or intimidated by the assistant manager's conduct at KFC's Punchbowl store in Sydney, The Australian reports.
The worker alleged the assistant manager on about four occasions in 2007 told her "you have a nice arse", and on about 10 occasions, said, "I wouldn't mind if the buttons on your top went all the way down".
She alleged he said, "I wouldn't mind rooting your sister", and also told her mother, "if you were single, I would have you". She claimed he said "you would go wild if drunk".
HEADLINE: Mum drives dead son to police station
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 22.7.9
CAPTION: Weird Indeed
POLICE were last night questioning a South Australian woman about the death of her teenage son, after she drove him to the Mt Barker police station yesterday afternoon.
The woman told police her son, 16, had been hurt, AdelaideNow reports.
Police found the boy's body in the back seat of the car, "with an obvious injury".
Superintendent Tom Rieniets, officer in charge of the Hills Fleurieu Police, would not say what the injury was or whether it had caused the boy's death, but wounds were visible on the boy's neck and torso; the T-shirt he was wearing was bloodsoaked. ..
HEADLINE: Sleeping Farmworker Killed by Ants July 21, 2009
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 22.7.9
CAPTION: ANTS KILL
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian police say that a 42-year-old man who fell asleep under an ant-infested tree was been killed by insect bites.
Beni city Police Chief Rolando Ramos says that farmworker Santiago Ortiz apparently had been drinking before sitting down beneath a Palo Santo tree — a type noted for its aromatic wood and for hosting a particularly aggressive sort of ant.
HEADLINE: Thief gets torn genitals, Viagra headache
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 22.7.9
CAPTION: YOU MUST READ THIS ONE TO BELIEVE IT
THE attempted armed robbery of a Russian hairdresser became a three-day sex ordeal for the would-be thief, leaving him with torn genitals and a Viagra hangover.
IT website The Register reports the man, known as Viktor, tried to rob the hairdresser in the town of Meshchovsk.
The owner, 28-year-old Olga, agreed to hand over the takings but as she was giving him the money, used her karate skills to knock him to the ground and tie him up with a hairdryer cord.
She then locked him in the storeroom and told colleagues she’d call the police.
However, she instead stripped him and cuffed him to a heater with a pair of fluffy pink handcuffs. She then fed him Viagra and raped him several times over the next four days. ...
HEADLINE: Shrinking black sheep losing solar power
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 22.7.9
CAPTION: SHEEP SHRINK
ANOTHER clue has been found in the Case of the Shrinking Sheep, an animal mystery in which climate change features as the principal culprit. The tale of scientific sleuthing is unfolding on two Scottish islands, Soay and Hirta, in the remote Outer Hebrides.
Their sole inhabitants are wild sheep which probably arrived there with the first human settlers some 4000 years ago.
The sheep's isolation and lack of predators make them terrific candidates for studying the impact of weather, food and genetics on a wild animal population.
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