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Swinging for Glory
FIREFIGHTERS IN WALES HAD TO CUT A WOMAN OUT OF A SWING
She got stuck in the baby swing on Friday night

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A 30-year-old woman got stuck in a baby swing in a park Friday night, and firefighters had to prise her out using hydraulic cutting equipment.

The woman, whose name hasn't been published, was rescued by members of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service at about 9.40PM on Friday, in Bridgend's Sarn Hill neighbourhood.

Firefighters dismantled the swing in order to free her, but she reportedly didn't sustain any injuries in the process.

Suspicion Plus Fear
A PROFESSOR ON A FLIGHT WAS QUESTIONED FOR WRITING EQUATIONS
His neighbouring passenger suspected his academic work was linked to terrorism

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An economics professor delayed the takeoff of a domestic US flight on Saturday after the woman in the seat beside him thought the mathematical equations he was writing may have been linked to a terror plot.

A woman on the American Airlines flight – operated by a regional airline – reportedly took in the sight of Italian professor Guido Menzio and his differential equation scribblings and figured she wasn't safe. She later disembarked, saying she was ill, before Menzio says he was escorted off the plane and questioned by an official. He explained that he'd been doing his work, and after a few hours the plane took off.

Menzio wasn't too impressed by "a security protocol that is too rigid – in the sense that once the whistle is blown everything stops without checks – and relies on the input of people who may be completely clueless," he later told the Washington Post. No word yet on whether the passenger "felt better".

Iffy Offy Encounter
A DURHAM SHOPKEEPER FENDED OFF A MASKED ATTEMPTED ROBBER
The 'Scream' mask-wearing suspect carried a knife, but retreated when confronted

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A shopkeeper in Durham's Chester-le-Street scared off a masked attempted robber, armed with a knife, after basically swinging a stick at the suspect from behind his shop counter.

The suspect walked in on Friday night, wearing a Scream-style mask, and reportedly asked for cash. "I told him, 'I'll get you money' and went behind the till for my stick," said shopkeeper Gurcharon Sigh Mathara, speaking to local press.

After waving around the stick Mathara normally uses to open and close the shop's shutters, the masked man left. Easy as that.

"I wasn't scared." Mathara said. "No I am Sikh; Sikhs don't get scared." Police are calling for people to come forward if they recognise the almost-robber.

The Good Kind of Testing
NEWCASTLE UNI ANNOUNCED A PILOT DRUG TESTING KIT SCHEME
The £3 kits are the latest step in the university's progressive approach to drugs

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Newcastle University's student union announced the introduction of a drug testing kit scheme, off the back of the institution's drug awareness week last week. The £3 kits, which will allow students to test the contents of drugs they plan to take, have been released as part of a new campaign from the Newcastle branch of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).

"We are not promoting drug use. It's trying to avoid the harm of people that are going to use them," said Holly Mae Robinson, president of SSDP Newcastle. "People are always going to use drugs and we just want to make it safer. As far as we know we are the first university that you can find anywhere in the world that have made [the kits] available to students."

The testing kit announcement comes after a 17-year-old girl from Liverpool died after taking a pink "Mastercard" MDMA pill, and after two young women collapsed after taking red "Lego" pills in Manchester.