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ARCHANGEL IDENTIFIED [FT424:9]

The man who refused to give his name and repeatedly insisted he was the Archangel Raphael when he appeared in court in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, charged with damaging a police van, has finally been identified as 24-year-old Phillip Smith from Drogheda. He claimed to have “levitated over from Spain to Dublin and up to Northern Ireland”, but when released on bail said he “would just get the train” back to Drogheda, where he would stay with a friend. belfasttelegraph.com, 17 Jun 2022.

WOLFWEAR [FT424:10]

Zeppet, the Japanese company that created an ultra-lifelike collie costume for a man who wanted to live as a dog, has now gone one better and created a costume to enable a customer to

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