A Stranger's London
Eat your way to health on caveman diet
If people ate like cavemen, heart attacks, strokes and obesity could be things of the past, says a nutrition expert.Ancient man's diet included a lot of wild game, a variety of wild plants and practically no grain or dairy products.
Wild meat apparently contains eicosapentaenoic acid thought to prevent dangerous plaque forming in blood vessels, according to Dr S. Boyd Eaton of Atlanta's Emory University School of Medicine.
Recluse leaves his millions to two servants
Three sisters are planning to challenge the will of their brother who left his entire estate, reputed to be worth £10 million to two employees.Bachelor Thomas Burn, who accumulated his fortune from a chain of outfitters' shops, lived as a recluse in his rambling home in 55 acres at Rous Lench, near Evesham, Worcestershire.
He had an impressive collection of antiques, and TV personality Arthur Negus is being asked to help value them.
Mr Burn died three weeks ago, aged 77, leaving everything to his gardener Mr Leslie Newman and his estate manageress Mrs Monica Houghton, a 59-year-old widow.
One of Burn's sisters Mrs Zweena Ward of Chepstow, Gwent, said: "He was rather eccentric but we will see if we have a claim. We are comfortably off but our children and grandchildren could benefit."
Secret lands a husband in jail
Bank manager Michael Browne chose to go to jail rather than tell his ex-wife how much he earns.Mr Browne, 48, from Streatham, London, faces a second jail term after being released following two days in Pentonville prison for contempt of court.
He said: "I'm not going to give in. "I know it probably means going back to jail and my job going by the board, but you have to make a stand against injustice sometimes.'
"I've been treated like a common criminal. It's been an awful experience."
He vows he will keep his earnings secret until his former wife pays back £1,000 he gave her towards a divorce settlement.
His wife Inge, 49, won an order for Mr Browne to reveal his income when they divorced after 24 years of marriage.
Heartbreak mother's "TimeCapsule"
A teenage mother has renewed her pledge to prepare a "time capsule" for the four-year-old daughter she may never see again.Tracey Harris, 19, had just heard that the Law Lords had rejected her last-ditch attempt to appeal against a court order that her daughter, in local authority care, should go to foster parents.
The "time capsule" will include a photograph album, a tape explaining that she never wanted to let her daughter go, and a letter. She hopes they can all be handed over by solicitors when the daughter is grown- up.
Model Tracey, of Hampstead, was deserted by the baby's father. Her marriage to another man did not work. Her fiance Paul Rassam, 29, said she was 'devastated' by the Law Lords' decision. "She hopes one day she and her daughter may be reunited."
The great phone robbery
Staff who counted telephone box money pocketed more than the GreatTrain Robbery haul - £2½ million - a court heard last week.According to a Daily Mail report, they took 50p pieces, slipping some of the coins in tobacco pouches tied with elastic bands.
They were caught after the British Telecom management became suspicious of the counting operation at Wheatstone House, Chiswick High Road, West London.
On 34 days early last year about 18 of the boxes of coins collected daily from London's pay phones were diverted to a warehouse and counted before being sent on to Wheatstone House.
The difference between the two counts was £2,500. Only 50p pieces had been taken. On March 15 the management emptied 90 boxes and replaced them with marked 50p pieces.
Operation Blue Box went into operation. As the staff left after the night shift 45 police and BT investigators arrested them in the streets. They had £2,200 in 50p coins on them, Kingston Crown Court was told.
Thirteen men and four women admitted stealing sums up to £14,400 each. Most of them ran new cars and lived in luxury houses. British Telecom is currently replacing cash phone boxes with card operated machines.
HANGING ON…
Fourteen women and children chained themselves to a phone box in Colcott, Barry, South Glamorgan, yesterday in a protest against Telecom plans to remove it.Why wise girls play the fool
Bright girls often have to act like dumb blondes to get boyfriends. The problem is that schoolboys and students feel threatened by a girl with beauty AND brains. A report, published by the Association for the Psychiatric Study of Adolescents, says the girls feel the only way to get and keep boyfriends is to hide their cleverness.The report also deals with the dilemma of whether a girl should admit to knowing about contraception. It adds: "to be known as knowledgeable about it or to be on the Pill brands a girl promiscuous.
£200 a week for sleeping
One hundred alert job-hunters applied for employment at a north London sofa bed factory. The saleroom had planned to advertise for a man and woman to demonstrate their sofa beds by dozing convincingly in a shop window for £200 a week each.Applicants ranged from "down-and- outs" to "resting" actors.
The director, Mr Joe Miller, said that a card in the window had failed to attract the right applicants and the local job centre, although good at finding people to do a hard day's work, could not find layabouts who could look pleasing in repose.
