The query was just one of a number of bizarre phone calls made by members of the public to Sutton Council in south [...]]]> A London motorist who discovered her car was in a different parking spot when she returned from a shopping trip rang her local council in to ask if the car park was haunted.

The query was just one of a number of bizarre phone calls made by members of the public to Sutton Council in south London. Other questions included “how long can I safely store ginger powder for?” and “can I put a dead fox in my recycling bin?”

The ghostly goings-on came to light when the woman called the council’s environmental contact centre to say her car had moved “of its own accord”.

She asked if the car park, in Brighton Road, Sutton, was haunted and wondered if a ghost had been responsible.

The truth, however, was rather less supernatural. Council officials reviewed CCTV footage and found the car had gently rolled into a different parking bay after the driver had failed to apply her handbrake properly.

Cllr Simon Wales, Sutton’s Executive Member for Communities, Transport and Voluntary Sector, said: “Our call centre was last year voted the best in London and we can tackle most queries but I must admit there are some that do raise eyebrows.”

Other ‘unusual’ calls included:

Do you know where I could get an old bath that I could fill with custard for a fundraising event?

Can I park a double decker bus in my front garden?

What time is Buckingham Palace open today?

My TV is broken

And, should I get broadband?

The council is encouraging people to save time and money by using its internet services.

Residents in the London Borough of Sutton (www.sutton.gov.uk) can go online to access dozens of services, including anything from reporting noise nuisance or graffiti to paying a council tax bill, and from booking a football pitch to registering an interest in adoption and fostering.

One card is of their gender by birth and the other, which they will get as “gender of designation”. Though ID Cards bills have faced many problems, still  Scotland declared it will go [...]]]> The Home office minister for Scotland has declared that transsexuals who are yet to perform their sex-change operation should have two ID cards.

One card is of their gender by birth and the other, which they will get as “gender of designation”. Though ID Cards bills have faced many problems, still  Scotland declared it will go all out those controversial ID cards.

Reporting of the bill was completed. A third reading has been set to 6 March.

Disclosure of information

On Monday when peers voted with 155-138 a majority of 17 were against the government. The National Identity Scheme Commissioner is appointed by the Crown rather than the home secretary.

The government just won another when peers voted 155 to 155 on a Tory scheme to make sure the role of home secretary in authorizing the disclosure of information is kept in place.

National Security

She said that they were not in the same level as of the Information Commissioner or the Immigration Services commissioner. It is the commissioner who will decided what should be deleted because he has gone through the issues, which is affecting crime and national security.

She gave an argument saying an edited copy should be displayed by the home secretary along with security statements would change the nature of the role of a commissioner.

Peers have called for a separate act of parliament before the voluntary ID scheme can be made compulsory. After the bill passes its third reading in the Lords it will move to the Commons where ministers will ask MPs to idea of two IDs for transsexuals.

The sign symbolizes the horror that happened at the concentration camp.  It had been cut into three pieces when discovered.

The motive has not yet been [...]]]> A stolen sign from Auschwitz in south Poland has been found in the north of the country according to police who have also arrested five men in conjunction with the theft.

The sign symbolizes the horror that happened at the concentration camp.  It had been cut into three pieces when discovered.

The motive has not yet been announced, but the theft caused outrage from Polish and Israel politicians.

A spokeswoman for the police stated that five men were arrested and taken to the Krakow station for further questioning.

Auschwitz was a concentration camp in WWII, at which over one million people were murdered.  Of those killed, about 90% were Jews.

Over the weekend border crossing and airport security checkpoints were guarded heavily as police looked for the 5m sign that states ‘work sets you free’ .

It is estimated that the sign was yanked off the gateway of the camp sometime between 0330 and 0500 on Friday morning.

Jaroslaw Mensfelt, spokesman for the Auschwitz museum, said that the thieves took down the sign and then carried it 300m to a concrete wall opening.  He said that four bars across the opening were cut and footprints were left behind from the wall to the road.

It is little surprise that polish authorities are in no hurry to explain the reasons behind the theft, police had searched hundreds of scrap dealers, that would mean the item was to be sold for its few euros scrap value, an unthinkable insult to those who perished, and a missive embarrassment to the country