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'Why does no one want me?' The RSPCA rescue dog waiting three years for forever home A patient pooch named Pip is crossing her paws that someone will finally give her a loving home - after waiting for THREE YEARS for the right owner to come along.
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Violence in Greece over efforts to preserve ancient heritage of MykonosAttack on archaeologist in Athens is thought to be linked to developers’ ‘out-of-control’ clamour to exploit islandUnder cover of darkness in an Athens side street earlier this month, Manolis Psarros, an archaeologist, was attacked as he walked toward his car. It was 8.30pm, later than usual for the state employee to return home from his office in a neo-classical culture ministry building beneath the Acropolis.“There was a general strike the next day and I needed to get through my files on Mykonos,” said Psarros, who has oversight of the Cycladic isle. “I can remember approaching the car but after that it’s a blur,” he told the Observer. “All I know is that I was struck on the head from behind with such force I lost consciousness.”When the soft-spoken Greek came round in a hospital bed on 8 March he had broken ribs, a broken nose and eyes that had been so severely bruised his vision remains impaired.For doctors they were wounds that spoke: Psarros clearly had been kicked and punched in an assault that bore all the hallmarks of a professional hit. The 52-year-old was lucky to be alive.Almost three weeks later the ramifications of an attack that might otherwise have gone unnoticed are being felt across Greece.
More railway employees to face prosecutors over deadly crashTwo more stationmasters and a railway company inspector will face prosecutors during the coming week over the Feb. 28 rail disaster that claimed 57 lives.Auithorities are investigating whether the two, a contractor and a veteran staff member of Hellenic Railways, left before their shift was over, leaving an inexperienced colleague to steer two trains running in opposite directions on the same track, resulting in a head-on collision.Both were employed in the Larissa train station, an important rail hub in central Greece, just south of the site of the accident.