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A council has been criticised for chopping down a number of "stunning" palm trees to discourage people from having sex underneath them. Plymouth City Council left a row of stumps along the famous Hoe because council officials were "regularly having to clean up sex and drug paraphernalia" in the area

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The house where Adolf Hitler was born is to be repurposed as a human rights training centre for Austrian police officers. The redevelopment of the 17th century house in Braunau am Inn at a cost of €20 million will begin later this year after an expert committee rejected alternative proposals to

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A government official in India has drained a reservoir to retrieve a phone he dropped at the site while he was taking a selfie.

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A West End theatre producer has been told to knock down his multi-million-pound seaside home after complaints that it resembled a Travelodge hotel. Villagers in Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, said the timber-clad house built for Adam Spiegel and his wife, Charlotte, resembled a “fortress”.

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A man from Oxfordshire has built a "road worth" motorised wheelie bin, which is capable of reaching speeds of 8mph.

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Vandals have altered a construction traffic sign to instead warn drivers of something altogether more stinky. Instead of reading “construction ahead”, the digital sign located in northwest Ankeny, Iowa, now reads “poop ahead”.

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New York City is slowly sinking under the sheer weight of its skyscrapers, a new study has revealed.

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A construction company from the United Arab Emirates took its top-performing employees on a free holiday to Europe.

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A historic home on the market in Massachusetts comes with its very own jail cell. Owners of 1841 former Town Hall on 23 Green St. in Kingston has been remodelled into a three-bedroom, three-bathroom beauty of a house, with lots of fun features.

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Radioactive waste material from the fertiliser industry could soon be used to help pave roads in Florida.

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