Posts archive for: 28 March, 2008
  • Madness

    A couple have been barred from returning to their £1m home wrecked by last summer's floods - because newts have moved in.
    John and Margie Histed have been forced to live in a caravan since their 18th-century house flooded, reports the Daily Express.
    Repairs were almost complete to their home at Dauntsey, Wiltshire, when a blocked drainage ditch caused it to flood again.
    And now they have been told they cannot unblock the ditch because the Environment Agency suspects great-crested newts might be living there.
    Officials have ordered a three-month survey to look for the protected species and it could take several more months to relocate them if they are found.
    In the meantime the Histeds have had to put their renovations on hold in case the property floods again.
    Retired doctor Mrs Histed, 67, said: "I know it's the law, but it's very frustrating and bordering on the ridiculous that the fate of newts takes precedence over humans.
    "Is it reasonable for us to just sit here and watch if the ditch floods our home again because there may be newts there?"
    The survey is not expected to begin before June and the work to relocate the newts until the autumn.

  • Hotmail has been behaving strangely.

    Three times yesterday, in order to sign out of Hotmail I had to click on a button labelled 'malade'; which is the French word for 'ill' or 'sick.' I managed to sign out okay, but what's going on?
    The rest of the page was how it normally is though…in English.

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