17/09/15

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Still a medium risk of fires on Kef: http://civilprotection.gr

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Bishop bans popular wedding customs

A bishop in northern Greece has banned a series of customs that have become popular at weddings, such as the showering of married couples with rice, saying “the time has come for restrictions.”

http://www.ekathimerini.com/201603/article/ekathimerini/news/bishop-bans-popular-wedding-customs

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Could church incense be banned as ‘legal high’?
Cathedral clerics lobby MPs to include exception for substances which set minds on a higher plane

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11869843/Could-church-incense-be-banned-as-legal-high.html

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'Ghost ship' sunk by Irish Navy after floating 3,000 miles across the Atlantic
The owner of the abandoned yacht had hoped to be reunited with his boat after being told it had been spotted off the UK coast

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11869663/Ghost-ship-sunk-by-Irish-Navy-after-floating-3000-miles-across-the-Atlantic.html

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Man suffers fractured neck, third degree burns and has hole blown through the roof of his mouth after e-cigarette explodes

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-suffers-fractured-neck-third-degree-burns-and-has-hole-blown-through-the-roof-of-his-mouth-after-ecigarette-explodes-10503970.html

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Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership

Nine of the world's biggest banks including Goldman Sachs and Barclays have joined forces with New York-based financial tech firm R3 to create a framework for using blockchain technology in the markets, the firm said on Tuesday.

It is the first time banks have come together to work on a shared way in which the technology that underpins bitcoin - a controversial, web-based "crytocurrency" - can be used in finance.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/15/us-banks-blockchain-iduskcn0rf24m20150915