Kayakers are to be told to stop getting naked in public, reported The Telegraph. An official Paddlers’ Code for England, expected to be launched this summer, will advise canoeists, kayakers and stand-up paddle boarders to change clothes “in a discreet and considerate way”. Last year, a councillor in Totnes, Devon, raised the problem, saying: “They get out of their cars and get changed into their wetsuits on the pavement. If you’re walking out of your front door, that’s not what you want to see.”
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Pentagon ‘to reveal if aliens exist’
US politicians hope to find out this week if aliens exist, reported the Daily Star. Intelligence officials at the Pentagon will open up their real-life X Files when they are quizzed by the US Congress on what they know about aliens. “This will give the public an opportunity to hear directly from leaders in the intelligence community on one of the greatest mysteries of our time,” said Adam Schiff, chairman of the US intelligence committee. Last year, the US released a report logging 144 cases of “unidentified aerial phenomena” since 2004.
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