‘Jesus Christ’ bank notes cause disappointment in Chichester

Images of Jesus Christ have begun appearing on fake bank notes across Chichester, sparking “disappointment and anger in the community”, said the Sussex Express. Local resident Raymond Brody thought he had stumbled across cash but was “sick to his stomach” after picking up fake £20 notes on two occasions. “It’s bad enough that someone thinks it’s a good idea to litter in the first place but in today’s economic crisis £20 on the floor can mean feeding a family for a week,” he said. “To instil false hope in them like this is horribly hideous.”

‘Worst baby names’ revealed

A parenting site has come up with its a list of the worst baby names, reported the Daily Record. The worst girls’ names are Alexa, Aliviyah and Alice, said the website Emma’s Diary, while the worst boys’ names were judged to be Abaddon, Adolf and Anous. The list includes entries that might be “controversial”, said the paper, but was “only intended to be ‘a bit of fun’ and not meant to cause any offence”.

Shatner ‘saw death’ in space

“All I saw was death,” said William Shatner of when he joined a suborbital space tourism flight last year. “I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness,” writes the actor in his biography, Boldly Go, according to Variety. “I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her.” Shatner had joined a voyage into space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space shuttle.

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