Grapes of wrath

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Police are helping keeping a watch on a 500-year-old grape vine after it was dug up – and hacked into pieces – in an  attack suspected to have been carried out by a jealous vintner.The vine had survived wars, droughts, fires and finally the abandonment of the vineyard where it was growing bringing the arrival […]

Tomcat survives bow and arrow attack

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A Styrian faces animal cruelty charges after shooting a tomcat in the neck using a bow and arrow.Two-year-old pet Mucki was seriously injured but survived yesterday’s (Tues) assault, according to police in St. Georgen an der Stiefing in Styria’s Leibnitz district.The 33-year-old offender saw red when he spotted the animal, which belongs to a next-door […]