And finally… Mafia No Fear, Facebook fools and Tea Cosy QC
Following the recent news that a baby in France, whose parents had named it “Nutella”, was renamed by a judge as “Ella”, here are some other names that have been banned at some point. Numbers eight and nine are particularly heinous.
1. Mafia No Fear - New Zealand
2. Bjørn - Norway
3. Superman - Venezuela
4. Anus - Denmark
5. Saddam Hussein - Brazil
6. Robocop - Mexico
7. Osama Bin Laden - Germany
8. Tom - Portugal
9. Linda - Saudi Arabia
Five people in San Francisco called the police on Monday after Facebook went down.
A dispatcher told CBC San Francisco said: “Our lines are dedicated to handle life and death calls, and even though Facebook is important to a lot of people, it’s not a matter of life and death when it stops working.
“One caller even called back to tell me I was being rude because I told her it wasn’t a life threatening emergency.”
The barrister’s wig tea cosy above was seen at The Judge’s Lodgings - a hotel in York - recently.
The grade 1 townhouse was the private residence for judges attending the Assize Courts at York between 1806 and 1976.