A Stranger's London
'Big Noise' Maggie's sex tips
Screaming Margaret Whybrow, whose noisy love-making annoys her neighbours, is to write a sex-advice column for a girlie magazine.The magazine, Men Only, also plans to 'star' her on record so readers can hear the sounds of her unbridled passion.
Margaret, 22, was in the news in July after her neighbours in flats in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, petitioned the council to move her to another house. Her loud love-making was keeping them all awake, they said. But Margaret said: "They were only jealous."
Southern discomfort
Beer drinkers in the South are facing the bitter truth about the price of a pint… they're paying more than anyone else.On average a pint of keg beer in London costs 88.5p, in Scotland 77p, in Wales and the Midlands only 69p. Lager in Birmingham is around 79p, in London £1.01.
Real ale prices range from 91p to 67.5p according to a survey by the magazine Caterer and Hotelkeeper.
Brewers blame the differences on higher rates, and wages in the south. Top price in the survey was in the Little Gem pub in Aylesford, Kent, where real ale costs £1.20 a pint. Landlord Riben Brenchley said: "We have no complaints. Sometimes it's difficult to get in."
Dick, 76, is father of twins
Jubilant grandad Dick Wilson was cele- brating after becoming the father of twins at 76. Dick, who watched his wife Angela give birth to two boys, said: "It's tremendous. I'm the luckiest man in the world.""Having a young family at my age has given me a new lease of life." The arrival of 7lb 13oz Richard and 71b 8oz Alister was the second celebration in 24 hours for Dick and Angela, 37. The day before, Angela became a gran herself when her daughter from a previous marriage had a baby girl.
The boys' arrival at Newham Maternity Hospital, London, made up for the couple's heartbreak last year when their first baby died soon after birth. Twice widowed Dick, who has four children from his previous marriages, was given only weeks to live after heart trouble three years ago.
Now he and Angela, who married after falling in love five years ago, are taking turns changing the babies at their home in Plaistow, East London.
Ann ran out of luck on 13th
It proved an unlucky Friday the 13th for pretty blonde Anna Powell. She was banned from driving for a year-only two days after passing her test at the second attempt.All because she drove out to celebrate, bumped into a parked car - and a breath test showed she was 13 points over the limit.
"This wasn't a very good introduction to your full-time driving career, was it?" said Magistrate Mr John Nicolls at London's Marlborough Street Court.
"No, it was stupid," agreed 19-year-old Anna of Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea. "But I only had two drinks." Anna, a theatrical agent's assistant, was also fined £60. She said later: "I haven't even received my full licence yet. Ironic, isn't it?"
New peril of paper junkies
Paper impregnated with heroin could soon be flooding the streets of Britain, an MP has warned. The technique, which is virtually undetectable, is already being used to send drug-soaked letters and stamps to youngsters in prison..The inmates burn the paper and inhale the fumes, said Liverpool Labour MP Terry Fields. "It is frightening. There must be more cash to fight this problem," he said.
Heroin is being smuggled into almost every jail and detention centre according to Phil Hornsby, Assistant General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association.
A-bomb sirens blow it
Sirens wailed out a World War III warning to more than 100,000 people last week and they ignored it.The dreaded nuclear attack alert sounded for five ear-splitting minutes after British Telecom set off a Klaxon by mistake.
But life went on as usual in the sleepy Midlands towns of Warwick, Leaming- ton Spa and Kenilworth. Keen gardener Mrs Joy Beard, 32, said: "I just carried on watering my beans."
And John Toggart, 35, never even HEARD the sirens. "I was in bed asleep," he said.
A Warwick police sergeant said: "People went about their business as though nothing had happened."
Mum has baby in street
A mother gave birth to a baby boy in the street last week... outside a Labour club. Dozens of passers-by huddled around as the baby was born on a bench. One of them helped with the delivery.Mrs Linda Evans Wright, 35, suddenly went into labour while walking home at Collingwood Road, Witham, Essex. By the time an ambulance arrived, 9lb Ben had beaten them to it.
Mother and son were "doing beautifully" at St Johns Hospital in nearby Chelmsford last night.
Mrs Wright said: "I felt the labour pains begin as I was on my way home after visiting my mother. I sat on the bench and dared not go any further.
Thank goodness someone was there." The alarm was raised by a motorist on his CB radio.
No one in the local Labour Party was aware of the drama going on opposite. One member told of the birth said: "You're pulling my leg."
A police spokesman said: "Mrs Wright already has four children so she knew what to do."
