Hidden hazard in licking golf balls

Golfers who give their golf balls a “go-faster” lick before teeing-off risk doing their livers more damage on the course than afterwards in the clubhouse bar, doctors warn. The classic bottle was withdrawn from Britain in the Seventies when recycling was not widely available. To celebrate its reappearance, there will be an exhibition at the Design Museum, central London, featuring pictures of famous, and infamous, figures drinking from the Coca-Cola bottle – including the Cuban President, Fidel Castro (above).. Criminal charge over ‘Sea Empress’

The board of the Government’s Environment Agency agreed in principle yesterday to proceed with a criminal prosecution for the pollution caused by the Sea Empress oil disaster at Milford Havon, Pembrokeshire, 15 months ago during salvage attempts after the supertanker struck submerged rocks at the harbour entrance.

Glass Coca-Cola bottles in their original shape are returning to Britain for the first time in 20 years.
A brand new 330ml bottle will be on sale in selected bars and clubs during the next few weeks, with distribution widening over the year. A spokeswoman for the company said the move came after research “confirmed that consumers still see drinking from the glass bottle as the ‘ultimate’ way of enjoying Coca-Cola”. The jury will return today to consider a further four charges against the defendants Louise Jury. The real thing gets its bottle back

The real thing is back. Another supervisor, Desmond Tully, 33, of Exeter, Devon, was cleared of ill-treating a resident. The local parish priest, Father Andrew Dolan, said of Mr Brown, who was the father of six children: “He was very much a Christian gentleman.” There is speculation that the loyalists responsible might belong to a new organisation which recently broke away from the Ulster Volunteer Force One of its leading members is said to be in prison David McKittrick.

Carer found guilty of ill-treatment

The director of two private homes for mentally disabled people was yesterday convicted of ill-treating one of the residents in her care.
Angela Rowe, 39, was found guilty of ill-treatment through grabbing the resident’s hair and pulling her downstairs. Rowe, of Windsor, Berkshire, has been already convicted of two cases of wilfully neglecting residents at Stoke Place Mansion House and Stoke Green House, the homes she and her late husband, Gordon, ran in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. The jury at Kingston Crown Court also convicted one of Rowe’s senior care supervisors, Lorraine Field, 42, of Stoke Poges, of two counts of ill-treating residents. The vehicle was later found ablaze some miles away; Mr Brown’s body was lying nearby He had been shot.

Loyalist killing sparks fears of ‘new nightmare’ in Ulster

The killing this week by loyalists of an elderly Catholic man has been followed by a warning that Northern Ireland could be on the brink of “a new nightmare of suffering and uncertainty”.
The man, 61-year-old Sean Brown, was abducted by unknown loyalists just before midnight on Monday as he locked up the Gaelic Athletic Association premises in the nationalist village of Bellaghy in County Londonderry. After a struggle he was bundled into his own car and driven away. “But everyone tells me that, while they’re chipping you out, they’re actually very nice.”. Movement is difficult, and within the first few yards, those making an assault on the tunnel will have to negotiate bolted doors, sharp turns and 90-degree vertical twists.