Black & all-white
Buyers fear Al price tag DANNY’S SHOUT FOR DIVERSITY
HERE’S an offer you can’t refuse. The home of mobster Al Capone on Palm Island in Miami Beach is still on the market for £10.8million – down from £12.45m in 2018. The waterfront villa, which comes with a pool and a two-storey cabana, was where Capone, right, allegedly planned the 1929
St Valentine’s Day Massacre.
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FLORIDA County Commissioner Bryant Culpepper has been left humiliated after offering unusual advice in the fight against coronavirus during an emergency session.
He told how, after seeing a video, the nasal passages are cool, but if you can heat them enough “the virus just falls apart and disintegrates”.
“So you hold a blow dryer in front of your face, and you inhale with your nose, and it kills all the viruses in your nose,” Culpepper said.
“That sounds like a simplified way of doing things, but sometimes the cures for some of the diseases are very simple.”
Sometimes county commissioners are very simple.
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SHOPPERS were left cheering after a woman gave birth in the toilet paper aisle of a Walmart in Missouri. Manager Jessica Hinkle said the new mum told staff her waters broke but thankfully a midwife was shopping at the time and helped deliver a baby girl 45 minutes later.
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NASA has unstuck the faulty digging probe of its Mars craft by whacking it with a shovel.
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NEW York animal shelters are all but out of cats and dogs as so many people are adopting or fostering anxiety-reducing companions during the coronavirus lockdown.
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A PIZZA Hut employee made up a story that he fought off a robber, hoping to get a pay rise.
After making a 911 call, 26 armed Howell Township police officers raced to the scene hoping to catch the alleged gunman.
But after they reviewed CCTV footage, the New Jersey employee said he has made up the story because he “wanted to look favourable with corporate”.
Now sacked, the man is out of dough for his pizzas and dough for his wallet. D’oh!
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ON the road this week and I saw a sign outside an independent computer store. It read: “Adam and Eve were the first people to not agree with the Apple terms and conditions.”
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RED Dwarf star Danny John-jules reckons the series should be hailed as Britain’s first diverse comedy.
The show, with black Danny and Craig Charles plus Chris Barrie and Robert Llewellyn, is on Dave as a film on April 9.
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Danny told Radio Times: “It was totally ahead of its time. A bastion of diversity in television.”
HOUSEHOLDS which still have black and white TV licences fell by just 6%.
The total paying the £52 fee dropped from 6,928 to 6,522 in the year to January.
A TV Licensing spokesman said: “Some households still like to watch a black and white telly.”
The colour fee is £154.50.