Police have issued a warning to dog owners after cocktail sausages believed to be stuffed with toxic slug pellets were found at a popular walking spot.
Police in Hailsham, Sussex, have told dog walkers to be cautious after the contaminated meat was discovered by a member of the public.
The sausages, which had been sliced open and filled with the blue pellets, were found on the Cuckoo Trail in Hailsham on Wednesday evening.
Charged with robbing bank again
An Ohio man has been charged with robbing a suburban Cleveland bank – the same bank he pleaded guilty to robbing in 1999 and for which he served a prison sentence of nearly six years.
Larry Hewitt, 47, of Garfield Heights, and his alleged accomplice, 33-year-old Marcus Wright of Cleveland, were indicted in federal court for robbing an Ohio Savings Bank branch last November of $6,240. They were arrested in December.
Hewitt is also charged with brandishing a firearm and being a felon in possession of a weapon. He was convicted of robbing the same Richmond Heights bank of $163,000 in 1999 with an accomplice.
Passengers grab lucky escape
Nearly 90 train passengers have had a lucky escape after the mechanical grab section of a builders’ lorry broke off and landed on the track after the vehicle hit a rail bridge.
A train operated by the Southern company stopped short of the grab which then became welded to the track.
London Fire Brigade posted pictures on Twitter showing firefighters using cradles to transfer passengers from the train to another train alongside.
The incident happened at Dulwich in south London. The transferred passengers, who were taken to Tulse Hill station, had been on a West Croydon to London Bridge service.
Vicar is banned from wine bar
A vicar stopped from going in to a wine bar on Easter Sunday because he was wearing his trademark sandals hopes to return because they “do great mojitos”.
The Rev Andrew Dotchin said he had been to a beer festival to celebrate “that Christ had risen” after conducting six church services when he was turned away from The Wine Bar in Ipswich town centre for health and safety reasons.
Despite assuring the doorman to “trust me, I’m a vicar”, the 59-year-old real ale fan was forced to change his plan and go to Vodka Revolution to finish his night.
Plant flowered once after 80 years
A University of Michigan horticulture expert has sawn down a towering plant that lived an unexpectedly long 80 years before completing its one-time-only flowering process.
Matthaei Botanical Gardens horticulture manager Mike Palmer used a handsaw to bring down the American agave. Palmer said that, although he was sad to see the 20-foot-plus stalk come down, “it was time”.
The agave has been in decline since flowering last year, a development Palmer said is normal for the species. He said the agave produced “tons” of seeds. Now a university music professor plans to use a portion of the stalk to produce a flute. The agave that has called Ann Arbor home since 1934 started growing rapidly taller last spring, an indicator it was preparing to bloom.