Taiwan man 'marries' goddess

TAIPEI — A Taiwanese man out of luck in earthly love has married a goddess after she ordered him to do so in a dream, a report said Wednesday.

The man, identified by his family name Lin, claimed the Lotus Fairy, a Taoist deity, started coming to him in his sleep after he went to her temple to seek her blessing following a series of failed relationships, said CTS TV.

Stressed workers cost North Wales council £1m

Generic picture of a woman suffering from stress

STRESSED out council staff and teachers took more than 12,000 working days off in a year – costing taxpayers in just one county £1m.

Conwy employees stayed away from work for a total 12,103 working days with stress related conditions in 2009-10, a shock report reveals.

On average that’s 11.09 days a year lost to stress-related sick leave for each one of the county’s 3,552-strong workforce, and is a third of a day longer than in 2008-09, when the average was 10.7 days.

Heroic Wrexham postmaster may have to pay £9,000 after raid

Janine and David Taylor

A POSTMASTER whose skull was split open in an armed robbery may have to pay the Post Office almost £9,000 of the £54,000 cash stolen.

David Taylor, 46, postmaster at Cefn Mawr post office, Wrexham, is still suffering from concussion after one of the raiders twice hit him in the head with a two-foot metal bar on July 16.

His wife Janine, 45, was forced to the floor at gunpoint as a gang of three men stormed the village store and Post Office.

Flintshire family’s 14 year hell-hole house plight

John Finegan

THE plight of a family forced to live in a “hell-hole” for 14 years after a council flattened their neighbour’s house could now be settled by an independent assessment.

John and Linda Finegan once lived in a mid-terrace cottage in Pontblyddyn, near Mold.

But in 1996, without any warning, Flintshire Council officers demolished their neighbour’s property leaving them with just a party wall protecting them from the elements.