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How playgrounds keep the old young 1 Bernd Zimmermann (71) cheerfully swivels his hips on a stainless steel machine that reminds him of doing the twist 40 years earlier. At the same time, Ulrike Bernal (69) is playing with two large red plastic plates, spinning them with intense concentration. The sign outside the first playground for pensioners in Germany says that entry is only allowed under adult supervision, but that is not much of a problem for Mr Zimmermann or Ms Bernal. They and other healthy pensioners working out in the playground are part of a remarkable experiment aimed at making elderly people physically fitter. Germany has 16 million people over the age of 65. Pensioners are taking over power while children are rapidly becoming extinct. 2 “I come every day for about half an hour and I like the leg-swing best,” Mr Zimmermann says. He worked as a car mechanic, has arthritis and finds that the swing has started to help him after only two weeks. The playground for the elderly was opened in the Prussia Park in Berlin and the eight pieces of apparatus cost €20,000 which is a fraction of the cost of building a children’s playground.

Is this the end of the road for Traffic Lights? 1 “Most traffic lights should be torn up as they make roads less safe”, one of Europe’s leading road engineers said yesterday. Hans Monderman, a traffic planner who is involved in a project known as Share Space , also said that taking traffic lights away helped motorists, cyclists and pedestrians co-exist more happily and safely. 2 Residents of the northern Dutch town of Drachten have been used in an experiment which has seen all the traffic lights stripped from their streets. Only three of the 15 sets in the town remain and they will also be gone within a couple of years. The project is an idea of Mr Monderman and so far the town has seen some remarkable results. There used to be a road death every three years but there have been none since the traffic light removal started seven years ago. The main junction in Drachten handles about 22,000 cars a day. Where once there were traffic lights, there is now a roundabout, an extended cycle path and a pedestrian area. In the days of traffic lights, progress across the junction was slow as cars stopped and started. Now traffic jams are almost unheard of. 3 The engineer of the plan also noted that there have been a few small car crashes, but these were almost to be encouraged. “The idea is we 11 small accidents, in order to prevent serious ones in which people get hurt,” he said yesterday. “It works well because it is dangerous, which is exactly what we are looking for. It shifts the emphasis from the government taking the risk to the driver being responsible for his or her own risk. We only want traffic lights where they are useful and I haven’t found anywhere where they are useful yet. I am not against rules,” he added, “but I don’t like rules which are ineffective and street furniture telling people how to behave. In short, if motorists are made more alert about how they drive, they will behave more carefully.” 4 So far, Drachten’s drivers and pedestrians have voted the experiment a success. Kanaan Jamal, 39, like many people in Drachten, uses a bike to get around. “It is very smooth, a lot better than in other towns,” he said. “The consensus is that the creation of uncertainty by taking away the lights has worked. People don’t know who has priority, the car, the bike or the pedestrian. It’s all confusing, but because of that everybody takes care,” he said.

“She dealt with it pretty well,” says Martha Wampler’s friend Ann Rushing, who helped clean up the wreckage a day after the tornado. Twister of Fate Tornado season opens with a bang for one shaken resident of McCrory, Arkansas. 1 The clock stopped at 9:08 on Sunday evening May 4. That’s when the tornado hit Martha Wampler’s house in McCrory, Arkansas. Mrs Wampler, 52, was huddled with her granddaughter Anna, 3, in the hall as winds that reached 160 mph tore at the roof. Within seconds the ceilings began to collapse all around them — everywhere, that is, except in the hall, where even a table with photographs barely shook. “Things whirled around us — leaves, debris,” says Mrs Wampler, who is raising her granddaughter. “But we were not touched. We were truly blessed.” idea who they belong to.”

Primary pupils are urged to act drunk and ‘take’ ecstasy By Liz Lightfoot Education Editor starts to feel funny after a few sips. AS PART of a new drug awareness 35 “You can’t stop yourself from giggling. campaign pupils as young as seven are being encouraged to act out ‘being drunk at a wedding’ while 10-year-olds 5 pretend to take ecstasy. The roleplay is designed to teach 40 they can have. children the dangers of alcohol and illegal substances before they are old enough to be offered them. 10 Not all teachers and parents approve of the advice given in a series 45 Gary’s ODed 1) . He’s not moved for a of booklets for schools saying it could worry and frighten young children. But David Uffindall, a drugs education 15 adviser for North Yorkshire, said that it was 20 to teach children about the 50 substances and ‘hyping up’. Chris dangers at primary school so they were not left vulnerable to offers from older pupils when they reached the 20 secondary stage. Teaching an anti- drug message would give them the 55 as 11 are known to deal drugs. They confidence to say ‘no’, he said. Children from seven to nine are taught to understand the difference 25 between medical drugs and illegal drugs. In the booklet Drugs Centre 60 and 11-year-olds, said that drama and Stage , they learn about the effects of alcohol through a story called ‘Cousin Susan’s Wedding’, which includes a 30 character at the reception called Uncle Alex who does a chicken dance. noot 1 OD: een overdosis drugs nemen

Why most of us will only use a fork when we sit down to dinner Percentage of those questioned admitted to: fork in right hand/no knife 73% burping at table elbows on table 67% licking plate clean talking with mouth full 36% blowing nose on napkin using fingers to scoop up bits of food 34% putting too much food in mouth 1 Almost three quarters of adults make little of shovelling food into their mouths with a fork held in their right hand, leaving the knife unused. This habit, picked up from our U.S. cousins, is the most common in a list of bad table manners, a survey reveals. Today’s parents are so busy licking their plates and watching TV, that the next generation is unlikely to be any better. Most are happy to sit with their elbows on the table and speak with their mouths full. A quarter confess to belching freely during a meal. One in five also regularly use their napkin to blow their nose. 2 The decline in standards has, unsurprisingly, come at a time when only one third of families eat at the dinner table, where good manners could be passed on. The rest prefer to sit in front of the television, with one fifth admitting that every meal is consumed in front of the box. The changes in our habits are likely to have come about partly as a result of our

Top Anglers Drug Tested T OP CHAMPIONSHIP ANGLERS WERE LEFT SHOCKED … AFTER BEING ASKED TO SUBMIT TO DRUG TESTS Sean Ashby with his catch 1 Angling is by far the most popular 2 sport in Britain, with more than 10 million people regularly taking part. Many top anglers are professional, earning a living by entering competitions with prizes up to £500. So competitors at last week’s World Angling Championships were told to give urine samples or face losing their prizes. This caught the anglers by surprise. Briton Sean Ashby who came third in the individual competition said: “At first I thought it was 34 . As there are one or two pranksters among us, I was convinced someone was having a laugh. My first thought was, ‘What drug could possibly help anyone catch more fish?’”