Cleaners reveal weirdest things they’ve found at work

A box of ladies fingernails, a Voodoo doll full of pins and a five-foot plaster cast of a penis – these are just some of the odd things that cleaners have found at work. A survey of more than 2,000 cleaners also revealed that one cleaner found a dollhouse brothel.

Man finds parents 33 years after he was abandoned at Gatwick

A man who was abandoned as a baby at Gatwick Airport has tracked down his parents. Steve Hydes was left in the airport's south terminal in 1986 when he was just 10 days old. After 15 years trying to trace his family he has discovered his mother passed away but his father is still alive. He has also found out he has siblings.

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Cuddling cat banned from Bristol hospital

A cat who cuddled patients at A&E has been banned from entering the hospital. For months, Kolo the tabby cat has been strolling into Southmead Hospital in Bristol and cuddling up to patients or sleeping on the reception desk. But now Helen Blanchard, North Bristol NHS Trust nursing and quality director, said: “The cat is not welcome.”