The edge of paranoia

By MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com Margaret Brown is one of the Algarve Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. Having complained this year

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Blind man’s hole in one

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A BLIND elderly man in the US has achieved a dream of a lifetime by sinking a hole in one at a golf course in Florida.

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Courgettes, marrows and summer squash

By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul Mckay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows

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Nazi stamps

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com GERMAN postal Company Deutsche Post has inadvertently issued stamps bearing the image of Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, Rudolf Hess. A company spokesman said that 20 stamps

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Remote control

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com POLICE IN Australia declared a state of emergency when an inebriated man threatened to blow up half a city with his television remote control last May.

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Space junk

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A FARMER in Australia’s remote northern outback claims to have found what he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites. James

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Crazed clergy

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A PRIEST in Mexico was arrested after he punched a policeman who caught him driving drunkenly. Priest Manuel Raul Ortega, who was not wearing clerical dress

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Danger Cow

By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com CAMBODIAN POLICE investigating the deaths of at least six people in traffic accidents have arrested a suspect cow. A police chief based on the outskirts of

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Higher market

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com ADVERTISERS HAVE found a new way of reaching an untapped market high in the sky. UK-based Ad-Air launched a new service this week, offering brands the

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Nuisance neighbour

By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A disorientated drunk in Holland could not understand why the key to his house would not work and when he managed to break in, he realised

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