Man denied passport because his name is too rude

A British man is unable to go abroad because his surname has been judged too rude to be printed on a passport. Former soldier Kenny Kennard, 33, amused himself by changing his surname by deed poll to “Fu-Kennard” but has since been denied a passport three times by the Home Office because it “may cause offence”.

Pensioner circumcised by accident

A pensioner who went for a routine operation ended up being circumcised following a hospital blunder. Terry Brazier, 70, says he was so busy chatting to nurses at Leicester Royal Infirmary that he didn’t realise he wasn’t being given the cystoscopy he was expecting. He has been given £20,000 compensation.

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Prisoner dresses as daughter in escape bid

A prisoner in Brazil tried to escape from prison by disguising himself as his teenage daughter. Drug trafficker Clauvino da Silva put on a silicon mask, wig and women’s clothes in a plot to swap places with his 19-year-old daughter when she visited, but was spotted by guards as he tried to leave the jail, in Rio de Janeiro. He was transferred to a unit of a maximum-security prison and will face disciplinary sanctions.

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