A Stranger's London
Oh no, not you again
Windsurfer Clive Bone set a record recently by being rescued by life boats twice in two hours.He got into difficulties off Hayling Island, Hampshire. Mr Bone, a decorator of Sandheath Road Surrey, said "The lifeboatmen wouldn't believe it was me again and one of them said: 'what do you think this is, a taxi service?' I was stupid to go back out there".
London marathon winners
A 29-year-old Norwegian, Ingrid Kristiansen became the fastest earning woman in sport when she picked up nearly £70,000 in prize money after setting a women's world record last weekend.The 2 hours 21 minutes and six seconds it took for her to complete the London Marathon course represented a staggering earning rate of £496 a minute.
The men's race was won by Welshman Steve Jones an RAF corporal in the fastest run in Britain 2 hours 8 minutes 16 seconds.
According to the Daily Mail report of the event, although attendance along the route was reckoned to be 10,000 down on last year, last Sunday's entry of 17,500 runners was a world record as was the number of finishers at around 16,500.
"It was the best marathon ever" declared race organiser Christopher Brasher after seeing the winners home at the end of the 26 miles 385 yard course.
Meanwhile a week earlier another marathon runner, Steve Unwin smiled and waved to his boss as he came to the end of a 13 miles race and then dropped dead.
Only 100 yards from the finish, and minutes after passing the Carlisle home of his department chief, the 29-year-old keep fit enthusiast collapsed.
Bigamy shock for wife
A couple were furious to learn that their register office marriage four years ago was illegal.And they are planning to sue register office officials at Southam, Warwickshire, for marrying them without seeing a divorce certificate relating to the bride's first marriage. Before marrying 46-year-old company director Gunter Fairley in 1981, bride Sandra 36, whose first marriage had broken down, should have applied for a decree absolute on her divorce. But she did not know, she said.
And she did not find out until last week when her first husband decided to re-marry and asked her for the decree absolute certificate.
"It seems I should have produced it at the Register Office, but we were never asked and the wedding went ahead," she said at her home in Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
"We have a four-year-old daughter who was born before our wedding and we went to great paints to ensure she got my new married name.
"Now we shall have to go through another ceremony. It's very embarrassing".
TV dream 'can lead to crime'
The fantasy world created by TV soap operas such as Dallas and Dynasty can turn viewers to crime, a police chief has claimed.They become "antisocial" when dreams of riches, power, success and happiness fail to come true in real life. The dreams turn to envy and sometimes then to theft, according to Mr Stanley Bailey, Northumbria's chief constable. Mr Bailey also warns in his annual report that constant portrayal of bickering and rows on the screen is mirrored by domestic violence.
At a news conference on his report, Mr Bailey again attacked the "fantasy" programmes which told the young that "if you haven't got yourself a few mistresses and a fleet of Spain. cars by the time you are 21 you are not yet living".
Housewives' life is happy
The housewife's lot is a happy one - so most of them say. A survey today shows that the majority find homemaking is satisfying, and rewarding. On average they spend more than two hours a day cleaning, vacuuming, dusting and wiping - or 31 solid days a year. Two-thirds of 650 women questioned are quite happy about it.Which is just as well, for husbands don't help much. Less than a third offer to do housework of any sort. The questionnaire, commissioned by carpet manufacturers 1001, showed that women in the Midlands top the table in the cleaning league, spending 18 hours a week at it.
Southerners are more likely to employ a cleaner, with 10 per cent of them hiring help, compared with 9 per cent in the Midlands and just 6 per cent in the North.
Great escape of security guard
It was the perfect disappearing act One minute Omar Hafez was driving a security van the next he had vanished with £175,000. Last week the 30-year-old Egyptian security guard was relaxing safely in Spain as detectives revealed how he had evaded capture after the robbery in London last month.They found that within three hours of the snatch, Hafez and the money had been smuggled out of Britain on a cross Channel ferry - hidden under a blanket in the boot of a Rover.
Hafez was last seen shortly after 2pm on March 22 as he delivered money on behalf of the Shield Security firm to the Bank of Kuwait in Baker Street. A colleague went into the bank but when he returned, Hafez had driven off with the seven bags of cash. The black armoured Land Rover was found abandoned around the corner minutes later.
Their preparation was thorough. Days earlier the men had carried out a dummy run to iron out any potential difficulties and week before the snatch they had been granted visas to enter
Spain has no extradition treaty with Britain.
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