£1,000 Tortoise stolen during burglary

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£1,000 Tortoise stolen during burglary
A tortoise worth £1,000 is one of many possessions to have been stolen during a recent burglary in Whitchurch.
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‘Gone With the Wind’ Memorabilia Destroyed by Fire
Fire has claimed a Georgia museum’s trove of memorabilia from the movie most commonly associated with this Civil War episode: “Gone With the Wind.”
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Broad-minded website sells 'romantic weekend break for a threesome'
Two may be company, but three is certainly not a crowd at one luxury Lake District hotel, which is offering a romantic break - for people who want to have a threesome.
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Database helps Iceland residents avoid incest
In an isolated country where there's only a population of about 300,000, it seems necessary to have a database to make sure a love interest isn't of any family relation.
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'My Strange Addiction' Exposes Woman Who Snorts Mothballs
In the third season of "My Strange Addiction," which airs at 10 p.m. EST Feb. 12, TLC exposes addicts who cannot stop their behavior -- even as they put their health, and in some cases the well-being of others, in peril.
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Teacher in Los Angeles molest case reportedly paid $40G to drop appeal of firing
The former third-grade teacher charged with committing lewd acts on students was paid $40,000 to drop an appeal of his firing, a newspaper reported Friday.
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Escaped Madonna stalker caught by Los Angeles police
Police say they have captured Robert Dewey Hoskins, who was convicted of threatening to kill Madonna and walked away from a Los Angeles-area mental hospital last week.
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Long-Married Couple, Marjorie And James Landis, Die 88 Minutes Apart
After spending 65 years together, a Pennsylvania couple died within an hour-and-a-half of each other Monday.
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Burglar breaks in, folds clothes, cooks dinner
When a South Bend, Ind. mother returned home Monday night with her son, she discovered Keith Davis, 46, had neatly folded her clothes, swept the floor and cooked dinner. The problem? Davis was a burglar.
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Dad punishes Facebook post with 8 bullets to daughter's laptop
A video purporting to be the work of an angry father teaching his daughter a lesson by shooting bullets through her laptop is the viral video of day.
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The size-zero Botticellis: Artist Photoshops masterpieces to show changing perceptions of female beauty
The generously-proportioned bottoms and bulges of Renaissance beauties have been slimmed down by Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano to illustrate changing perceptions of feminine allure.
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Toilet training posters for Swansea University students
Swansea University students are being given toilet training after complaints about the state of the loos on their campus.
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Gay bankers who go to Dubai ‘could have penis lopped off’
Ken Livingstone says gay bankers risk having their penis ‘cut off’ if they abandon London to go to Dubai.
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Archaeologists find the bodies of 21 tragic World War One German soldiers in perfectly preserved trenches where they were buried alive by an Allied shell
Men were killed when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in eastern France in 1918, causing it to cave in
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Pennies raise the ante in road rage incident
A suburban Boston driver who gave another motorist more than his two-cents worth in a road rage incident is in trouble with the law.
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North Carolina artist accused of stealing his own paintings
A North Carolina man accused of stealing paintings from a restaurant is certainly familiar with the works of art at issue; he's the one who painted them.
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