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I have the same issues with our cactuses.

Perhaps it is its special caffeine-and-sweet-wine recipe, which allows overly enthusiastic consumers to be tipsy and bouncy at the same time. Perhaps it is its array of snappy nicknames, including “Wreck the Hoose Juice” — hoose being a Scottish pronunciation of house — or its exotic provenance as the product of wine-making Benedictine monks at an abbey in England.

Whatever the cause, Buckfast has emerged as a symbol of Scotland’s entrenched drinking problems at a time when it is urgently debating how to address them. “For a large section of the Scottish population, their relationship with alcohol is damaging and harmful — to individuals, families, communities and to Scotland as a nation,” the Scottish government said in a recent report.

Buckfast does not seem to help. In a survey last year of 172 prisoners at a young offenders’ institution, 43 percent of the 117 people who drank alcohol before committing their crimes said they had drunk Buckfast. In a study of litter in a typical housing project, 35 percent of the items identified were Buckfast bottles. And the police in the depressed industrial district of Strathclyde recently told a BBC program that the drink had been mentioned in 5,638 crime reports between 2006 and 2009 (the bottle was used as a weapon in 114 of them).

A spokesman for J. Chandler & Company, which distributes the drink, said that Buckfast accounted for less than 1 percent of the alcoholic beverage market in Scotland and was being unfairly singled out. Nor, he said, is wine-making a sign that the monks of Buckfast Abbey have strayed from the teachings of St. Benedict, an accusation recently leveled by an Episcopal bishop.

“It’s always wise to remember that Jesus turned water into wine,” the spokesman, Jim Wilson, said in an interview.

Researchers at the University of London found that nearly 20 per cent of people who follow regular aerobic exercise
did not gain any significant health benefits which are determined by our genes and can vary substantially between individuals.

Principal investigator James Timmons, from the Royal Veterinary College, said other ways of keeping healthy, such as improving diet or taking medication, may work better.

“We know that low maximal oxygen consumption is a strong risk factor for premature illness and death so the tendency is for public health experts to automatically prescribe aerobic exercise to increase oxygen capacity,” the Telegraph quoted Dr Timmons as saying.

She bought a half-dozen box from supermarket Morrisons and had been looking to scramble eggs one recent Sunday morning.

But after starting her preparation, she could only stare in amazement as every egg she cracked contained a double yolk.

The British Egg Information Service said the chances of getting one double yolk in a box of eggs was one in 1,000.

The chances of getting all six double yolks in one box, therefore, more than one in a trillion.

Robert Fidler built his dream home stealthily because he knew he would not get planning permission for the property from the council.

When it was finished in 2002, complete with ramparts and a cannon, the 60-year-old moved in with his wife and son and lived there clandestinely for four years.

He removed the camouflage in 2006, hoping to exploit planning legislation that states that if a property has been complete for four years then it is immune from planning enforcement.

But Reigate & Banstead Borough Council said the removal of the tarpaulin formed part of the building operation and issued an order to demolish it.