This England: Stop eating your heart out
Manchester Evening News (Amanda Welles)
And now we move on to liars…
A parish priest has written one hell of a farewell letter after stepping down from the Holy Family Catholic Church in Coventry after nine years. He's hit out at 'unfriendly' parishioners giving him 'disdainful' looks and 'tutting for a living'. In a poem called 'Not I Lord Surely!', Father Pat Brennan suggested the number of people attending his church, which has dwindled over the years, could be due to 'gossiping' parishioners. In the church newsletter he said he was leaving the parish, noting: 'You can't please all the people'.
BBC News (Adam Robertson)
Müller investigation
In the midst of a third heatwave of the summer, Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows can lower the temperature by 3.5°C. He told the BBC the yoghurt smells for '30 seconds when drying' and reflects some solar radiation.
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