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New Zealand: Couple trace ring lost in waves six years ago
By News from Elsewhere...
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from ... e-26920809
...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring
Engagement ring
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Baby accused of 'planning murder'
A couple in New Zealand are hoping to claim back a unique engagement ring, which has reportedly been found six years after it was lost in the sea.
Vivienne and Jeff Ninnes say that 15 years ago, they designed the ring together, carefully choosing the main stone. But six years ago, on a beach holiday in Northland, the ring was lost in the waves while Vivienne was splashing in the water with her husband and children.
"I didn't realise I lost both the engagement ring and wedding ring until we got back to the house," she says, according to the New Zealand Herald. "We went straight back to the beach and looked. It was a heart-stopping moment when I realised they were gone."
It eventually surfaced, when 83-year-old Bernard Patterson, an experienced beachcomber, was out testing his latest metal detector. He had the ring valued, and gave it to police, who traced the ring back to the jeweller who made it. He recognised it immediately.
Today, the Ninnes family are trying to get their ring back from the insurance company - to whom ownership of the ring was transferred after the claim was paid out. It may already have been sold.
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New Zealand: Couple trace ring lost in waves six years ago
By News from Elsewhere...
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from ... e-26920809
...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring
Engagement ring
'
Baby accused of 'planning murder'
A couple in New Zealand are hoping to claim back a unique engagement ring, which has reportedly been found six years after it was lost in the sea.
Vivienne and Jeff Ninnes say that 15 years ago, they designed the ring together, carefully choosing the main stone. But six years ago, on a beach holiday in Northland, the ring was lost in the waves while Vivienne was splashing in the water with her husband and children.
"I didn't realise I lost both the engagement ring and wedding ring until we got back to the house," she says, according to the New Zealand Herald. "We went straight back to the beach and looked. It was a heart-stopping moment when I realised they were gone."
It eventually surfaced, when 83-year-old Bernard Patterson, an experienced beachcomber, was out testing his latest metal detector. He had the ring valued, and gave it to police, who traced the ring back to the jeweller who made it. He recognised it immediately.
Today, the Ninnes family are trying to get their ring back from the insurance company - to whom ownership of the ring was transferred after the claim was paid out. It may already have been sold.
Use #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.
Which should have been edited out! Along with any ads, etc...ramonmercado said:Its a link to another story!
rynner2 said:Which should have been edited out! Along with any ads, etc...ramonmercado said:Its a link to another story!
(Just copy the story, not the whole page.)
Gnarly old git, actually!ramonmercado said:I edited out the rest, i just missed that one ye grumpy ould git!
Biker Looking For False Teeth Brings Traffic To A Halt
MADRID (AP) — A motorcyclist brought traffic to a standstill on one of Madrid's busiest highways after he pulled over to look for his false teeth, which flew out of his mouth when he sneezed, according to local media reports.
Two municipal police officers approached the motorcyclist Saturday and ordered him to resume his journey for his own safety and that of other drivers on the capital's M-30 highway, Europa Press reported. It wasn't known if the man found his dentures.
City police weren't immediately available to confirm the report and provide more details.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/2 ... 25807.html
A Wisconsin woman who lost her diamond wedding ring five years ago had given up all hope of finding it after searching high and low.
It turns out her mischievous dog may have had it all along.
Lois Matykowski, of Stevens Point, was eating an icecream two weeks ago when she noticed her granddaughter’s own one was gone. Her dog, Tucker, was to blame. The 10-year-old mutt the family calls the “food burglar” had struck again, swallowing it whole.
The snatched food soon came back up. Two days later, Tucker threw up again. Matykowski said that this time when she went to clean up the mess, she found her missing ring.
Her veterinarian says the Popsicle icecream may have dislodged the ring from inside his belly.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 73969.html
The beeb reports on another look at this enigmatic nanny:rynner2 said:Vivian Maier: lost art of an urban photographer
By Jill Nicholls, Director, BBC One imagine
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She's been called 'the greatest photographer you've never heard of'... the mysterious Vivian Maier, a nanny based in Chicago who took about 150,000 photographs in her lifetime and stashed them away, not showing them to anyone.
She left thousands not even developed, and most as negatives from which she never made prints. :shock:
It was sheer accident that her life's work was discovered.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/0/23007897
SKELETONS IN CLOSET?
USA: An archaeology museum in Philadelphia has made an extraordinary find — in its own storage rooms.
The Penn Museum has rediscovered a 6,500-year-old human skeleton. The remains were originally excavated from southern Iraq around 1930.
Officials said the rare specimen was identified during efforts to digitise the museum’s collection. They believe it is a man of at least 50, who stood about 5ft 9in tall.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 78594.html
We could never find one of them-turrns out the poor thing had crawled into the bed and suffocated. There was no smell, and the critter was mummified.
Let this be a warning, three cats is the upper limit!