New meaning to "cat burglar"
German police called to a break-in at an apartment in the northern town of Itzstedt found the intruder still on the premises and hiding under a kitchen cabinet. The "cat burglar" had somehow crawled into the ground-floor of the apartment, broken window blinds, torn down drapes and trashed furniture. Police also found fish and fish remains from a broken aquarium scattered around the apartment, said Julika Reinhardt, spokesman for the police in the town north of Hamburg. Two officers finally found the offender, a cat, hiding under a kitchen cabinet but the heavyweight male resisted arrest, biting one officer in the thumb before they both managed to overpower it. Reinhardt said the cat, wearing a name tag, was returned to its owner who would have to pay for the damage. "No one knows how the cat broke in," she said. "But the damage was considerable." ...via
posted by Gary @ Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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A house which is just 5ft 5ins wide in places has gone on the market for £525,000. The property, which is in Goldhawk Road, Shepherds Bush in London, measures just 9ft 11ins at its widest point. The former hat shop is squeezed between a massage parlour and a fabric shop, and has a roof terrace with panoramic views of West London. It is arranged over five floors with a kitchen, dining area, reception room, three bedrooms, one with a built-in bed, a bathroom, shower room and dressing room, as well as a small garden. The bathroom is so tiny that all it contains is the bath, and the photograph of it for the sales brochure was taken from above. The house is described by estate agents Winkworth as being "utterly amazing and almost certainly unique". The estate agent thinks it is the narrowest home it has ever put on the market. Its current owner, who is a celebrity photographer, is selling it after living there for 14 years. Russell Chilvers, a sales negotiator at Winkworth, said the property was "pretty amazing" and did not feel "overly narrow" when you were inside it. He added that the house had been on the market for only a week and a half and he expected it to sell quickly. 
Welsh expatriates missing the sweet smell of home can now buy a bottle of air from the hills of Wales - for £24. Businessman John Gronow will launch walesinabottle.com on Thursday to sell Welsh atmosphere around the world. If anyone wonders whether it is the real thing, each bottle comes with a certificate guaranteeing the air has been gathered in the Welsh mountains. The idea is backed by Prime Cymru, a business agency for over-50s whose president is the Prince of Wales. Mr Gronow, aged 58, from Lakeside, Cardiff, has collected air from Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons. 
