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Mass panic due to fake report on Dissolution of Belgium
Monday, 18 December 2006
The broadcast Wednesday evening on Belgian public television looked and sounded like big, breaking news.

Fuzzy film footage seemed to show King Albert II and Queen Paola fleeing the country on a military plane; pro-monarchy demonstrators were seen waving Belgian flags outside the royal palace; live video showed trams being halted at a hastily erected roadblock.

Flanders, the Dutch-speaking half of Belgium, had proclaimed its independence, the report declared. The fragile, federal country of ten million people, two major languages, more than a dozen different parliaments and regional governments and 300 kinds of beer, would be no more.

Actually, the broadcast was fiction, but done up to look as authentic as possible, complete with real reporters conducting live interviews with real politicians about the imaginary news.
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Woman received dad's body in post
Sunday, 10 December 2006

A Romanian woman was sent the body of her dead father in the post after a cemetery was sold to developers.

Aurelia Cenusa, from Severin, says clergy in her father's hometown of Darvari, 300 miles away, told her the graveyard his body had been buried in was to be sold and his body exhumed.

She said she thought the priest was joking when he told her to come and collect her father Rafaila Cojocaru's remains - or receive them in the post.

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Revenge on neighbours
Sunday, 10 December 2006
A Norfolk man aims to get his own back on his neighbours - by renting out his home to travellers or East Europeans.  Nick Massingham is furious that villagers blocked his bid to run a garage business at his £180,000 bungalow.  So he has put the home, in Hunworth, up for rent at just £100 a month, reports the Mirror.
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