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A pilot has criticised a decision preventing him from dropping a peregrine falcon from 1,500ft in a daring stunt.
Malcolm Howland hoped to launch Crowbar the peregrine falcon from his plane above the Wickenby Wings and Wheels event near Lincoln at the weekend.
But he has been told the stunt cannot go ahead after the Civil Aviation Authority turned down his application for special dispensation.
MODEL PRISONER
A prisoner who escaped from the county jail in Van Buren, Arkansas, left behind a rose fashioned out of toilet paper because he felt sorry for breaking out.
Luis Camacho-Mendoza was recaptured a day later, found hiding in a house cupboard in a pile of clothes with a pillowcase over his head.
ACID TRIP
Traffic on a major German road was jammed for hours after a drunken lorry driver spilled gallons of formic acid on to the road.
Police in Fulda said the 32-year-old tanker driver crashed into a concrete barrier. This tipped over the lorry, emptying 6,000 gallons of the acid, the same chemical that bees have in their sting.
DRUGS BUST
Three Japanese customs officers have been disciplined for secretly planting drugs more than 160 times in travellers' luggage.
A spokesman said the men began doing it last September at Narita International Airport, east of Tokyo, as part of a training plan for drug-sniffing dogs.
They were discovered after one put a package of cannabis resin in a pocket of luggage belonging to a visitor from Hong Kong.
6-STAR HOTEL
A Grade I listed former bank headquarters which provided the setting for a James Bond showdown is to be turned into London's first "six star" hotel.
City planners gave the go-ahead for Russian tycoon Vladimir Chernukhin to convert Midland Bank's former base at 27-35 Poultry into an ultra-luxurious guest house.
CAGE FLIGHT
Two zebras, 15 camels, and an undetermined number of llamas and pot-bellied pigs briefly escaped from a travelling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.
A spokesman said the animals wandered in a group through a nearby suburb for several hours.
BELTING NIGHT OUT
A brother of the United Arab Emirates' ruler has been found guilty of assaulting an American man with his belt in a luxury Geneva hotel bar.
Sheikh Falah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was fined around 4,500 for hitting the man repeatedly with a steel-buckled belt after he declined champagne from the sheikh.
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