160 million Cervalet’s are eaten in Switzerland annually, but this year there are fears that the ‘dwindling stocks’of Brazilian cows’ intestines may run out by the summer when football fans descend for the Euro 2008 championship. Switzerland’s favourite sausage is made from beef, bacon and pork rind and wrapped in intestine. They can be eaten boiled, grilled or raw. The problem stems from the Brussels import rules and that Switzerland is not a member of the European Union. They are looking at alternative suppliers, such as Argentina, Urugauy, Paraguay and South Africa but they have a fondness for Brazilian intestines

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In November 2006, Detective Con Liam Walker was deployed in an internet chatroom as a 13 year old teenage girl code named ‘Rachel’. There he met and ‘chatted’ to Rob Wynn in a reportedly ‘highly sexual nature’. The accused stated that he wanted to meet her in Hull and rent a hotel room for the purposes of sex. He has initially denied chatting to children and using his webcam for sexual purposes. He has also denied having a sexual attraction to children, but has admitted to distributing and showing indecent images of children. The trial date is pending.

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In July 2006, a young man who had been drinking was involved in a fatal car crash which killed his four friends, Peter Leonard, Anita swift, Jonathan McDonald and Danica O’Rourke. Daniel McDonnell originally pleaded ‘not guilty’, but changed his mind as the trial began. A mere 3 months later, Daniel was caught speeding on the same stretch of road and offered the lame excuse that he was late for work. Sentencing is set for February 21 and Judge McFarland has warned Daniel that he is looking at ‘going to prison’. This has been further compounded when the Swift family were given the wrong body for burial. The coroner admitted that there had been an ‘initial misidentification’. The body of one of the teenage girls had to be exhumed.

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It has been 200 years since William Wilberforce was instrumental in abolishing the slave trade in the UK, and now Detective Sergeant, Jon Gross, has taken it upon himself to ‘uncover and disrupt’ the sex slave industry, including the role of Gatwick Airport in the cross-border trade. He is well aware that victims of sexual exploitation are one of the most difficult groups to identify because they will verbally say that they are ok, due to their fear of their abductors. Gross is training officers to look for particular signs when searching premises. “Does it look like the girls are potentially being locked in at night and held against their will? What are the amenities they’ve got there? All these types of things would raise the alarm.” He said. The Gatwick connection reveals such details as 2 young Lithuanian women were sold for 3.000 pounds each during a ’sex slave auction’ at a coffee house.

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Gary Weddell was found dead in woodlands close to the Broomhill Shooting Club in Mrkyate, Herts. on a peaceful Saturday morning. He had been due to go to trial for the murder of Sandra Weddell, his wife and mother of his 3 children. Her body had been discovered on a Saturday afternoon, in a house in Slype, Gustard Wood and just 11 miles from the field where Mr Weddell’s remains were found. Detective Superintendent, Andy Shrives, has been quoted as saying, “We are keen to trace the movements of Mr Weddell on Friday and Saturday. I am also keen to speak to anyone who may have attended Broomhill’s Shooting Club on these days.” Anyone who has seen a metallic green Renault Laguna with the registration, NY53ONT, is also invited to come forward. The postmortem on his wife, Sandra, revealed that a cable tie was used to strangle her. Scotland Yard refuses to comment, despite the links to his dead mother-in-laws body, also found in woodlands, Traute Maxfield.

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Tiffany Fraser, 26, has a novel method of discipline for her children. “Get into the oven”. Her 7 year old son was found wandering alone in a shopping centre with burns to his legs, arms and nose. The day care centre had also noticed the burns, which were not reported. The owner of the centre, Joelle Lherisson, 37, said that there was nothing wrong with the child. She has also been arrested for failing to report the abuse.

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3 weeks ago, Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach went missing, just days after speaking to military prosecutors about being raped by fellow marine, Corporal Ceser Armando Laurean, who has also gone missing. Lauterbach’s pregnant remains are believed to have been found in a fire pit at the back of Laurean’s house. Laurean has fled after leaving a note for his wife in which he claims that Lauterbach ’slit her own throat’. He also claims to have had nothing to do with her murder and that he simply buried the body. The police are now combing the house and surrounds for traces of blood and other evidence.

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Father of 6 murdered for a laptop, four mobile phones and $74 in cash. He leaves behind 2 children from a previous marriage and four to his South African born wife, Ursula. His ashes will be scattered at the property which has been in his family for over 500 years in South Wales. The residents are ’saddened and shocked’ by his death, as he and his family are well respected and liked in the community. His South African home was surrounded by 2 metre high walls and electric fencing which had been successfully navigated by the two robbers. Ironically, the family had emigrated to South Africa in search of a better quality of lif

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Fred Picton-Turbevill was shot in front of his family of five children and wife in his home in Pretoria. He died one hour later at the hospital. He was only 46 years old and came from Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, but has lived in South Africa for a number of years. 2 men have been arrested and charged with murder, armed robbery and ‘pointing a firearm’. Mr Picton-Turbervill’s funeral was on thursday, with relatives travelling from the UK and Wales. His ashes will be scattered in the grounds of the 12th century Ewenny Prior, near Bridgend, where his father, Richard, and his stepmother, Ann, currently live.

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