Detectives want to trace a peeping tom who placed a camera in a unisex changing room - and unwittingly photographed himself doing it.
The balding thirty-something fitted the camera in a light fitting in the changing room at Asda in Warrington's Westbrook Centre at about 5 p.m. on December 19.
He snapped two images of himself which Cheshire Police issued in a bid to trace him. (PA)
Extra-strong steel toilet
An extra-strong toilet which can cope with morbidly obese patients weighing up to 70 stone has been introduced at a hospital, an NHS trust said.
The reinforced steel toilet is reportedly still in the prototype stage with manufacturer Armitage Shanks and has now been installed on a new 23-bay ward at Lincoln County Hospital.
Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust said it had bought an extra-wide bed for the £2.8 million ward. It can also cope with a patient weighing 70 stone and comes complete with hoists and pulleys. (PA)
Monkeying around
Despite being native to warmer climes, baboons at a safari park were happy to monkey around with hot potatoes in the snow.
Knowsley Safari Park, in Merseyside, was closed to visitors but that did not stop the African primates from tucking into a warming snack.
Keepers braved the freezing conditions to check on the welfare of the animals throughout the park, many of which are more suited to balmy weather. (PA)
Village opens DIY railway station
An Indian village has built its own railway station and persuaded authorities to stop trains there so that local people can travel to nearby towns for work and college, officials said yesterday.
Residents of Tajnagar, who had watched trains pass through their village for decades, started a campaign for a station in the village in 1982 but their pleas remained unanswered.
Two years ago they took the matter into their own hands by collecting $45,000 to build their own - complete with two platforms, electricity and a ticket counter.
Construction on the building started a year ago and the first train pulled into the platform yesterday to be greeted by cheering crowds, the local member of Parliament and a religious blessing.
"Most of the 3,000-plus people living in the village are farmers," Tajnagar resident Ranjeet Singh told the Times of India. "But such was the burning desire to have a station that everyone contributed according to their capacity."
India's vast railway system, a legacy of British colonial rule, covers about 63,000 kilometres of track and has nearly 7,000 stations.
It employs at least 1.5 million people and carries 18.5 million passengers every day. (AFP)
Fruits de mer
Scientists have discovered a new crab species off the coast of southern Taiwan that looks like a strawberry with small white bumps on its red shell.
It resembles a species living around Hawaii, Polynesia and Mauritius, but with a distinctive clam-shaped shell about one inch wide, making it distinct.
A team found two female crabs of the new species off the coast of Kenting National Park, known for its rich marine life. (PA)
Clean sweep
Hundreds of rubbish trucks across California are being powered using clean fuel made from the very waste they collect.
The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and Oakland residents and businesses have been discarding in the Altamont landfill since 1980.
The methane gas created from decaying detritus is sucked into tubes and sent to a plant that purifies and transforms it into liquefied natural gas. (PA)
Squeegees ready for three-month Burj window-clean
An Australian company has described the epic task of cleaning the windows of the world's biggest skyscraper in Dubai, using squeegees, buckets - and 7.3 million US dollars of high-tech equipment.
Dale Harding, general manager of Cox Gomyl, said the firm designed and installed the Burj Khalifa's unique window-cleaning carousels which were in action ahead of its official opening this week.
Twelve machines weighing 13 tonnes carry up to 36 cleaners, who use ordinary soapy water to wash down the Burj's 24,830 reflective windows in a process that takes three months, top to bottom.
"It's the same as an average shop front cleaner would use - there's nothing complex about it at all," he told AFP yesterday.
The cleaners stand on the specially designed machines, which emerge from cavities in the skyscraper and track along rails skirting its curved towers. (AFP)