For months, 79-year-old widower Mr Martin Hardy locked horns with Thatcham Town Council after he told them he wanted to use the phrase "a good wife, good mother and a great lover" on the headstone for his wife.
This week, however, the two sides agreed that the whole phrase could be used as long as the "offending" words were written in his wife's mother tongue.
Now a happy Mr Hardy will be able to place his wife's headstone in the Bath Road cemetery with the phrase "a good wife, good mother and grande amore mio". - Newbury Weekly News (Conor Magill)

The Home Office has apologised to an asylum-seeker who was told that his application had been refused because Jack Straw, the Home Secretary, thought his claim to be an Afghan national was "a pile of pants". - Sunday Times (Nick Thomas)

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