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Cooking up a jumbo record
BRISTOL: A team of 17 British cooks, armed with tonnes of ingredients and a specially-made baking tin, on Sunday cooked up the world8217;s biggest meat pie, weighing the equivalent of three elephants. The jumbo steak and kidney pie weighed 10.25 tonnes as against the world8217;s previous record-holder a 10-tonne US-made chicken pie. It was cooked at Clevedon Football Club near Bristol in southwestern England after a series of setbacks were overcome, notably a race against time to thaw 4.5 tonnes of frozen beef.
A true fire-ball8217;
SALT LAKE CITY: A woman climbed into a 25-tonne fire pumper truck, drove away with the emergency lights flashing and led police on a 90 km chase before she was arrested. Police accounts say the hour-long chase began after Shirley Jean Shay, 41, walked up to police officers during a domestic dispute on Saturday morning, asked them to help her find a car and was told to wait for a taxi. Instead, she climbed into a 3,50,000 dollarfire truck idling nearby and drove off.
Can8217;t soak8217; it in
LONDON: Sophie Rhys-Jones, the girlfriend of Prince Edward 8220;astonished8221; the Duchess of York when she asked her to make a public appearance, being sprayed with water in an empty swimming pool, The Daily Telegraph reported on Monday. The Duchess, who is the former wife of Prince Edward8217;s brother, Prince Andrew, was said to be 8220;amused, if a little hurt8221;, according to one of her friends, quoted by The Telegraph. There is no prospect of the Duchess accepting the invitation from Rhys-Jones who has been hired to do public relations work for a London health club, the newspaper added.
