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ORPHAN SNAKE IN WEST LONDON

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A mysterious foreign man bought an anaconda snake in a local pet shop three months ago and never came back to collect it.

The meter-long yellow anaconda was bought in April for £250 in Aqua Rep the tropical pet shop in Harrow Road. According to the shop owner, the unknown man took it as a present for his wife and said he would come back to collect it as soon as possible – but the reptile is still in the shop.

“Usually we write down all the details of our customers, when they order this kinds of animals,” said Michelle, 23, shop assistant. “But he just came in one day and bought the first snake he saw in our expositors, so we don’t have a clue on how to contact him.”

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VIRUS BRINGS 30,000 TROLLS IN EXCLUSIVE COMMUNITY OF BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

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It was probably a funny joke, or maybe there was a message beneath the hacker action that allowed 30,000 ugly people to accede the dating and networking community BeautifulPeople.com.

Being the largest community of attractive people in the world with 700,000 members, the club is reserved to good-looking people, who decide if new applicants are worth to join the site.

But last month, something went wrong: Shreck virus – how they called it – brought down this normally strict “rating” stage, allowing anyone to be accepted, regardless of looks.

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SUPERMARKET, AGAIN

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How often do you go shopping with a short list and end up buying a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with what you really need?

Picture: Anthony Albright

Passing in front of all that coloured-packaged food, I feel as if I really have to buy almost everything. Supermarkets seem to be made for people to get lost and waste a lot of precious time walking confusedly among the shelves.

One of the things that I’ve liked the most since I’d fled the nest is going to the shop. Finally I could decide what to eat and how to organize my meals – even if I couldn’t bother cooking for myself. Anyway.

Supermarkets have the power to fascinate customers with all those products, the plain voice of the speaker – always calling someone of the staff to the cashiers – the noise and the breeze coming from the big fridges, the sections of food, the buy-one-get-one-free offers…

Even if at first I didn’t mind spending half an hour in that attractive new place, now I feel I really have enough of it. And I’m not the only one, I guess.

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NORTH LONDON ARTIST GROUP SHOWS ONLINE

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A freshly formed group of artists from Harlesden has opened a temporary exhibition at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn High Road – to launch a new online gallery.

Paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos, installations and photographs of 24 artists can be seen at the expo until April 10th and also on the Harlesden Gallery website. This platform is created to provide a permanent showcase for the community, as there’s no arts and cultural space in the area.

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SNOWBOARD LEGEND PARTY COMES TO ITALY

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More than 150 snowboarders from all over the world are expected to participate to a vintage race in Prato Nevoso, in the north of Italy, on Saturday.

Colourful vintage clothes and historical snowboards will literally invade the highest mountain of the ski resort and compete in a race divided into two categories: one for the legends who have ridden before 1992, and another one for the ones who started later.

The Legend party is already popular both in the Californian ski ranch of Donner and in the Austrian Stuben, where every year hundreds of riders meet for fun.

“As this year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Prato Nevoso Snow Surf Club, we recruited some friends and organized a parallel edition in Italy,” said Dino Bonelli, owner of the Surf Shop in the town and editor of the Italian Snowboard Museum.

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