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Get squashed
Council chiefs spent more than £5,000 on Braille signs to advise squash players which shoes were acceptable and about safety on court.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People said: "Blind and visually impaired people are able to play many sports but not squash."
Daily Mail (Ron Rubin)
It's a white thing
A white man has been prosecuted for racially abusing three white security guards. Jonathan Wicks was taken to court for calling the men "honky wannabe cops". He had to attend court at least five times, at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of more than £5,000.
He was on a night out in Reading with friends when it happened.
"The security guards told me to move on . . . I just said it as a joke. Honky is a word a lot of my black friends use to describe a white person, so I suppose that's why I was charged with racial abuse. But it's ridiculous that I was taken to court over it."
Martin Bryan, defending, told Reading magistrates: "He was not intending to be malicious. He was being more obnoxious."
Daily Mail (F Harvey)
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