Dispensary Corner

WE'VE heard of taking the p*ss but this is ridiculous.

This year’s Glastonbury music festival in the UK will be literally powered by urine.

Scientists are taking the opportunity afforded by thousands seeking relief for alcohol-distended bladders to showcase technology from the Bristol Bioenergy Centre.

Pee Power - involving passing megalitres of attendees’ urine through fuel cells - will be used to power information boards keeping attendees up to date.

The system, which will be attached to a massive 40-person urinal, houses bacteria which literally consumer human urine to create biochemical energy.

The technology will also be used to charge lighting systems and mobile phones at the venue.

Pee Power’s development has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and will later be trialled in Uganda.

IT'S definitely a sign of the times...the US state of Oregon has become the first jurisdiction to add a third gender option to drivers’ licences.

LGBTQ rights groups have hailed the move which allows residents who do not identify as either male or female to mark ͚X’ for gender on the documents.

The Oregonian newspaper says public hearings to debate the issue encountered little opposition to the new policy.