IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

A three-month-old baby was summoned to the US Embassy in London, after his grandfather inadvertently identified him as a terrorist. Paul Kenyon, 62, was filling in an online visa waiver form for his daughter and her baby, Harvey, to travel to Orlando, when he accidentally ticked Yes to the question: “Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage or genocide?” As a result, Harvey’s application was denied, and he was asked to present himself to US officials. He was eventually authorised to travel, but the permit arrived too late.

Some people get into hot water for erecting “home offices” in their back garden without planning consent. A millionaire accountant went a step further, and built a 10,000 sq ft leisure complex behind his house in the Gloucestershire village of Cinderford. The structure is big enough to house a 16-seat cinema, tennis and squash courts, a 25ft-high doll’s house, a bar, gym, casino and bowling alley – yet Graham Wildin reckons it shouldn’t need permission as it is partly submerged into the ground, and so does not obstruct neighbours’ views. The council has given him three months to demolish it.

A woman was pulled over by police in Peterborough after being spotted driving along with her head wedged between the legs of a baby’s high chair. Having already filled her boot, the unnamed driver had jammed the chair across the front seats, and squeezed herself in behind it. She was ordered to remove the chair before continuing.