And finally… Mafia No Fear, Facebook fools and Tea Cosy QC

Following the recent news that a baby in France, whose parents had named it “Nutella”, was renamed by a judge as “Ella”, here are some other names that have been banned at some point. Numbers eight and nine are particularly heinous.

1. Mafia No Fear - New Zealand

2. Bjørn - Norway

3. Superman - Venezuela

4. Anus - Denmark

5. Saddam Hussein - Brazil

6. Robocop - Mexico

7. Osama Bin Laden - Germany

8. Tom - Portugal

9. Linda - Saudi Arabia

Five people in San Francisco called the police on Monday after Facebook went down.

A dispatcher told CBC San Francisco said: “Our lines are dedicated to handle life and death calls, and even though Facebook is important to a lot of people, it’s not a matter of life and death when it stops working.

“One caller even called back to tell me I was being rude because I told her it wasn’t a life threatening emergency.”

The barrister’s wig tea cosy above was seen at The Judge’s Lodgings – a hotel in York – recently.

The grade 1 townhouse was the private residence for judges attending the Assize Courts at York between 1806 and 1976.

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