Star Trek Fanatic Changes
Name To That Of Hero Captain
CHRISTOPHER CARGILL of Widley,
Northamptonshire, is no more.
Last month the 24-year-old Star-Trek
fanatic changed his name to James T Kirk.
"I have never really felt that my real
name suited me," he explained.
The premier of the latest Star-Trek
movie and a girlfriend urging marriage, has finally prepared
Chris to cross that final frontier.
"When I heard the new movie was coming
out, it just seemed a good time for change," said the new
Captain Kirk.
UFOs Over Edinburgh Turn Out
To Be Chinese Lanterns
POLICE were inundated with calls about
UFOs drifting over the City of Edinburgh recently, where strange
orange lights were clearly visible. Even the local newspaper,
The Evening News, had readers calling in about the colourful
phenomenon. The lights appeared to be located around Blackford
Hill near the Royal Observatory, and people with cameras caught
the display on film.
The mystery of the lights was solved
however, when a women called in to say the orange lights were in
fact Chinese sky lanterns, and part of a birthday celebration
for her teenager. Like small hot-air balloons, when they are
lit, they rise in to the air emanating a flaming aura against
the dark sky.
Russell Eberst of the Royal Observatory
says the popularity of the sky lanterns have led to an increase
in UFO calls, but they understand now, what the orange lights
are, and they are not visiting aliens. The sky lanterns do have
a written warning on the package that they may be mistaken for
UFOs, but this has not affected its growing popularity as a
party accouterment.
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THE
STORIED Nepalese warriors who have served Britain's military for
nearly two centuries were given the automatic right last month to
settle in Britain, gaining a hard-won victory after years of
lawsuits and lobbying....
MODERN
architects still have a formidable foe in Prince Charles, but a
quarter century after he first attacked the profession in a famously
fiery speech, the heir to the British throne wants to work with the
practitioners of the trade - not trash them...
