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Egyptian man abused by bus driver for using Cornish saying told – ‘You can’t say that – you are not Cornish’

An Egyptian man was shocked when he was abused by a bus driver for using the colloquial term 'me 'ansum' and was told he couldn't say it. Raggaa Komos, 70, opted to say the Cornish phrase to thank the driver but received abuse in return. The driver said to Raggaa: "You're not from Cornwall. You can't say that, you're not Cornish!" Raggaa, who was born in Egypt but has lived in the UK for 40 years, said that incidents of...

Pensioner found frozen in council home after heating failures

A pensioner in Kent died of hypothermia after local authorities failed to provide adequate heating in her council house. Susan Baines lived in a property now managed by East Kent Housing (EKH) - which looks after council homes across the district - for 25 years. But in January, she was found hypothermic by paramedics - six months after EKH ruled electric storage heaters in the property needed replacing with radiators. The 70-year-old - who had a number of other health...

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