8 Two readers, Dinoo Kelleghan, of Sutherland, and Stuart Garland, of Grafton, have told us about fear sweeping Japan over the possibility of animal diseases arriving from Europe. Stringent checks are being made on travellers who have been on British farms in recent months. The signs are ominous - throughout Japan, holes are appearing in mattresses, obviously the work of crazed animals.
Japan faces a futon mouse plague.
At the risk of boring readers with items culled from the pages of Weekly World News , we'd like to tell you the amazing story of a Northern Territory woman who, according to WWN , delivered her own baby by caesarean section using a pizza cutter. Alone at home, Kate Shirewood ordered a pizza delivery, then, while chatting to the delivery man, felt labour pains. He started to drive her to hospital, crashed the truck and was killed. She was trapped in the wreck for two days, so she took his pizza-cutter, etc, etc. James McPherson, usually from Ryde, now working in the San Francisco Bay area, found in Columbus Street a restaurant called The Stinking Rose .