News At A Glance #32

By ASH Smyth
January 2023

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 20 October 1906

Denzel Washington lives in an expensive celebrity mansion.

In Austria, Paddington 2 is known as ‘Paddington 2’.

Every adult human body contains approximately 30bn fat cells.

Poland’s highest honour is the Order of the White Eagle.

The mountains between Burma and India are some of the wettest in the world.

You can forget Heathrow wifi.

Italo Svevo found the Cockney accent an insuperable difficulty.

Ross Brown has apologised to Sammy Davis, Jr.

Playful males are sending a signal.

Uruguayan politicians enjoy karaoke.

Extra bayonets are always quite useful when you’re going into an operation.

Some lies get accepted as the truth.

The risk is moderate to newly-shorn sheep.