Man threatens service station workers with toilet brush

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Workers at service station between Horsham and Crawley have been threatened with toilet brush during what they described as a “slight misunderstanding” over social distancing in the bathrooms. Inspector Darren Taylor said: “How the toilet brush became embroiled into it we really don’t know.” The toilet brush has now been returned to its cubicle, he added.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i news site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.