Woman strips naked in airport
London: A woman stripped naked at an airport in Bermuda after being stopped by the customs officers for a routine luggage check, a media report said Wednesday.
Loukai Phillips, 36, who had arrived on the island on a flight from London, told the stunned officials: “If you want to see me naked, you can do it right here.”
She then removed all her clothes as shocked passengers – including children – looked on in the middle of the airport’s busy arrivals hall, Daily Mail reported.
Phillips, who is Bermudan but now lives in London, was returning to the island Saturday to sort out personal financial matters.
In court Tuesday, she explained that she had reacted angrily after repeatedly being searched whenever she flew home to the mid-Atlantic resort.
Phillips pleaded guilty to indecent exposure in a public place but added: “I would never do it again – I’m just tired of being searched.”
She was handed a 12-month conditional discharge by magistrate Archibald Warner, the Mail said. (IANS)
Pak hospital launched thrice, never built
Islamabad: A hospital in Pakistan’s Punjab province was launched thrice, but it hasn’t yet got built.
The 150-bed hospital was announced by then president General Pervez Musharraf during his visit to Murree in 2007.
The Dawn reported that the hospital project now has the dubious distinction of being launched three times at a huge cost the public exchequer, but nothing to show on the forest department land that was transferred to the health department for the project.
General Musharraf was the first to start it. The project was later initiated by then Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi and the third time by his successor, Shahbaz Sharif.
That’s not a solitary case.
A building for a girls’ degree college was completed a long time back at Dak Bangla, but it lies vacant, the media report said.
Hafiz Usman Abbasi, an official, said the college building was substandard and maintenance work had to be undertaken. (IANS)
Couple plunges 350 ft by driving over suicide cliff
London: A couple in Britian killed themselves by driving at high speed over a cliff, crashing 350 ft to their death in an apparent suicide bid.
Startled onlookers watched in dibelief as the driver of a Renault Scenic suddenly accelerated out of a car park and “gunned it” for the cliff edge.
The vehicle smashed through a barbed wire fence before plummeting over the chalk cliffs at the notorious suicide spot Culver Down, near Bembridge, on the Isle of Wight, a county and the largest island of England, Daily Express reported.
A major search operation, involving at least 40 specialists, was launched immediately after the horrific incident.
The man and woman, in their 50s and 40s respectively, are believed to have died instantly, as the car crashed on to the rocks below as daylight faded Wednesday evening.
Isle of Wight deputy coroner’s officer Dennis Adams said if anyone went over the cliffs, they had “little or no chance of surviving”.
He added: “We have had suicides over the years at Culver Cliffs.”
Post-mortem examinations were carried out after the bodies were found in daylight Thursday.
The couple were identified Friday.
An inquest at Newport Coroner’s Court opened for Paul Charles, 53, from Albert Road, Sandown, and his wife, Jacqueline, 48, from Union Road, Ryde, BBC reported Friday.
It heard they both died from multiple injuries consistent with a fall Wednesday evening.
On the Isle of Wight, Culver Down is known as the island’s equivalent of Beachy Head, another infamous 530ft suicide spot near Eastbourne in East Sussex. (IANS)
Doctor uses patient’s blood for obtaining licence
London: An alcoholic doctor in Britain has been banned from practising medicine after she tried to dupe driving licensing authorities by using a patient’s blood sample as her own.
Ellen MacInnes was asked to provide a blood sample to prove she was fit to get back behind the wheel, a disciplinary hearing heard.
She had been previously banned from driving three times, Daily Express reported.
The tests, required by Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), were to assess those who want their licence reinstated after a drink-driving conviction.
MacInnes, of Chelmsford, Essex, abused her position of trust and lied to one of her patients by inventing an illness and claiming she needed to take a sample of their blood. She also forged the signature of a fellow doctor.
However, testers became suspicious when two samples arrived at their laboratory – one clean and one with “abnormalities”.
The General Medical Council panel banned her from practising medicine for a year “for the protection of patients, the public interest and her own interest”. (IANS)
Man’s nose, ears bitten off in Britain
London: A man in Britain had his nose, ears and lip bitten off after he was attacked outside a nightclub.
The 31-year old victim had been enjoying a night out with friends when he was assaulted. The incident occurred in Liverpool city centre last Saturday, Daily Mail reported.
The reveller lost part of both of his ears, upper lip and part of his nose.
Describing CCTV footage of the attack, PC Stuart Moore told Liverpool City Council’s licensing committee: “It is horrific, sickening and it is almost barbaric, what takes place.”
Merseyside Police said the victim, from the Wavertree area of Liverpool, is still recovering at hospital and is expected to undergo reconstructive surgery.
Meanwhile, a Laurence Richard McGinn, 28, of Sherry Court, Aigburth, Liverpool, was charged with Section 18 wounding and remanded in custody to appear at Liverpool Crown Court November 28.
A 27-year-old man from Toxteth, was also arrested in connection with the assault. Heis on police bail pending further inquiries. (IANS)
Pakistani doctors get big pay hike
Islamabad: Pakistani doctors will now take a fat pay home.
President Asif Ali Zardari has signed an order regarding salaries of post graduate trainee doctors and their pay has gone up from Rs.18,000 to Rs.50,000, Geo News reported.
A medical officer’s salary will be increased to Rs.60,000 per month and their annual increment will be Rs.6,000.
Under the new structure, non-practicing allowance for doctors working in federal government hospitals will be hiked from Rs.20,000 to Rs.80,000 per month.
A nurse’s monthly has been increased to Rs.40,000 a month. (IANS)