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A Crown Court case collapsed after a woman accidentally joined the jury, The Telegraph reports. Judge Jonathan Seely at Chelmsford Crown Court said he had never seen anything like it in his career.

A drunk man commandeered a milk float after losing all his money at the gambling tables, a court was told. James Cooper, 31, took control of the truck at 5:30am following a night of revelry in which he had 10 pints, The Times reports.

A law that requires newly-nationalized Danes to shake hands with a representative at their citizenship ceremonies ought to be scrapped, critics have said. As part of new rules on citizenship that came into effect this year, participants at such ceremonies must shake hands with the mayor or local off

An Austrian court has ruled that a German tourist who complained about a "photo of a Nazi grandpa hanging in the hall" in a guesthouse had no right to air his grievance on travel websites. The tourist posted the comments online in response to the picture of a Wehrmacht soldier in uniform.

A solid gold toilet worth £4.8 million has been stolen from Blenheim Palace. Two days after the artwork went on display at the Duke of Marlborough's country home, burglars broke into the palace and ripped it from the wall, leaving in their wake “significant damage and flooding”.

Police are looking for thieves who stole bells from grazing cows in the Austrian mountains. "Of course people may wonder why someone would steal a cowbell," Bernhard Gruber, a police spokesman from the Tyrol region, told AFP.

A court has ruled that an employee who died engaged in amorous congress while on a business trip was the victim of a workplace accident. The technician had been sent to Loiret in north west France and ended up sleeping with a "complete stranger".

The Orange Order has confirmed reports its officials alerted police over criminal activities leading to the discovery of a cannabis factory in County Tyrone. The operation was worth around £50,000 and was found in adjacent houses in the village of Sixmilecross, The Irish News reports.

A court has ruled by a majority that the rectum is "inherently personal and private" after limiting how police can perform body cavity searches. Guntallwon Brown was arrested in 2015 after he sold an undercover officer crack cocaine then hid a bag of the substance in his backside.

A city is to begin fining people for failing to weed the pavement outside their homes. Sandy Evrard, mayor of Belgium's smallest city, Mesen, has sent its citizens a letter telling them they face a €125 fine (£112) if they avoid weeding, collecting litter or picking up dog mess, VRT repor

A man who allegedly drove away from a courthouse was arrested – as he had only five minutes earlier been convicted of drink driving and ordered not to drive for a year. Provincial police in Ontario, Canada, said they arrested the man after he was convicted in the courthouse in Orangeville, CP2

A rooster whose owner was taken to court over his crowing has been spared death after a judge rejected a lawsuit brought by irritated neighbours. Corinne Fesseau, owner of Maurice the rooster, told a court in Rochefort, western France in July that only a few retired summer holidaymakers had complain

A lawyer who spent 15 years re-enacting episodes of TV quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? was finally invited to compete in the real thing – and walked away with the top prize. Hamburg lawyer Jan Stroh, 35, watched all 1,407 episodes of the German version of the famous TV show, Wer Wird

Honey bees could be deployed to detect drugs and explosives as early as five years from now, according to a university researcher. Senior researcher Ross Gillanders at the University of St Andrews is training bees to search for land mines by tricking the bees into thinking they smell like nectar,&nb

A massive haul of suspected drugs seized by airport security turned out to be cake mix for a vegan bakery, police have said. An employee of vegan pizzeria Purezza was transporting the white powder in 25 blue bags and was held up while waiting for tests to be completed.