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An easyJet customer escaped excess baggage charges by putting on an extra 8kg of clothes. John Irvine was returning to Edinburgh from Nice, where the temperature was 30°C, when his bag turned out to be overweight. “The lassie at the counter asked us if we wanted to pay extra,” said his son Josh, “but my dad just looked at her and said, ‘Hen, watch this’, and zipped open the suitcase and flung on about 15 jumpers. Getting through security was a struggle, because they thought he was trying to smuggle something under all his clothes.” Thousands of people, including newlyweds, have been flocking to a lake in Siberia to take Instagram pictures of themselves beside its azure waters – ignoring the fact that it’s actually a chemical waste dump. Nicknamed “the…

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