28/03/19

[Maik]

Elderly slipper vender’s fine canceled

A 90-year-old woman who was fined 200 euros by police for illegally selling woolen slippers and handkerchiefs at an open-air market in the Thessaloniki suburb of Ambelokipi earlier this week will not have to pay it.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/238951/article/ekathimerini/news/elderly-slipper-venders-fine-canceled

[Maik]

Canadian hunters want to club tens of thousands more baby seals to death in cull expansion

Hunters in Canada want to be allowed to club to death tens of thousands more baby seals each year in an expansion of their annual cull.

Hunting groups are lobbying the country’s government to approve a wider slaughter of seals and sea lions for their fur – including in a nature reserve.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/canada-seal-hunt-clubbed-death-cull-fur-trudeau-a8842276.html

[Maik]

A bottle of wine a week could increase women’s cancer risk as much as smoking 10 cigarettes

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/28/bottle-wine-could-increase-womens-cancer-risk-much-smoking-10/

[Maik]

Brunei set to introduce death by stoning for adultery and gay sex

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/28/brunei-set-introduce-death-stoning-adultery-gay-sex/

[Maik]

Iceland's Wow airline collapses

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47731043

[TonyD]

"A bottle of wine a week could increase women’s cancer risk as much as smoking 10 cigarettes"

That's 10 cigarettes A WEEK....

Good job there's no public transport smoking any more. A trip into work on the tube would have seen a non-smoker exposed to more than that, every journey!

Honestly, how long till it's suggested we breathe in and out fewer times a day, for our health's sake?

[Maik]

Ah yes, smoking... seems the government issued a decree exempting casinos and nightclubs over a certain size from the smoking ban. Earlier this week the Council of State nullified the decree. So the government issued a new one. Story here. As it says in the article, "the anti-smoking laws are essentially symbolic in Greece because they are rarely enforced except in certain areas and people can smoke almost wherever they want, including in hospitals."