As the mask debate rages, a woman shopping at a Pick n Pay supermarket in South Africa has come up with an inventive response. When she was confronted by a store employee for failing to wear a mask, she reached under her dress, removed her knickers and slipped them over her head to cover her mouth and nose.
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Motorhome owner lives with hearse
A funeral hearse, a child’s bike and a weights machine are among the items to have been hoarded under a motorway bridge by a man who has lived there for months. The motorhome owner has set up a living space beneath the M65 in Darwen, Lancashire, complete with a beer keg, a wheelchair, a BMW car and a child's bike. A local councillor said: “If he's not breaking any laws then there's not much we can do, to be honest.”
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