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ALSO IN THE NEWS: CHURCH ANGRY AT GERMAN MEN TAKING THE PISS Ulm Minster, in Germany, which has the world's largest church tower, is having a problem with men spending a penny on the church.   The urine is destroying the stone base and the fear is that the church may collapse in the future if men continue to syphon the python on the structure.   As a punishment for blokes taking a leak the Pee-Police have doubled the fine for those caught to 100 euros.   However it seems to have made little difference.   Michael Hilbert, head of the department that maintains the building, and a semi-professional peepeeping Tom, said, "I've been keeping an eye on it for half a year now and, once again, it's coated with urine and vomit."   In Other News War between Lindsay Lohan and Kettering Borough Council escalates Gorilla Escapes London Zoo and Downs Five Litres of Undiluted Blackcurrant Squash Chinese city inundated with clean butts Kellog...

Also in the news: Some of the Stranger News stories Brides banned from dancing at their own weddings.   They are also banned from cutting the wedding cake with their new husband.   The Mayor of Grozny, in the Russian republic of Chechnya, banned cake cutting and any indecent dance moves at Chechen weddings.   The bans on cake cutting and indecent dance moves, as well as showing up drunk and being dressed in a way "that doesn't conform with the Chechen mentality" are an attempt by the Mayor to "Safeguard the spiritual and moral development" of young Chechens from what it believes are increasingly Western influences.   Whilst dancing, partners must be held at arms length. And under no circumstances should the bride be allowed to dance.   All Weddings in Chechnya will be observed by officials who will immediately put a stop to any inappropriate behaviour they witness.   Acting Minister of Culture, Khozh Baudi Daayev, said, "Our s...

Also in the news (a glance at some stranger news stories):   Butts, there are too many butts.   One Chineses city has had to stop offering tissues for butts because of too many butts.   In Shengzhou, Zhejuang Province, China, people were encoured to collect discarded cigarette butts from the streets and hand them in for a reward of a pack of tissues.   They were rewarded with a pack of tissues for every 50 cigarette butts they collected and handed in.   It proved popular. Way too popular. There were butts everywhere. However, not a lot of dirty butts. And you only get tissues for dirty butts. They were inundated with butts. Almost five million of them. But the authorities cried foul play as the butts didn't seem to be dirty enough. They believed people were shipping the butts from out of the city as they were just too clean to have been picked up from the streets. One old lady had over 9,000 butts. Probably from her own personal sup...