DURHAM // A retired police officer from Durham, northern England, said he had been able to put a check on speeding cars in his village after attaching to a pole a bird box, which resembled a speed camera.
Bill Angus, 64, said prior to this initiative, drivers regularly flouted the 48kph speed limit in the area, and that his continuous complaints to the traffic authorities since 2000 about the speeding phenomenon fell on deaf ears.
"We have got a lot of residents who have cars on driveways at the front of their homes so they have to reverse out onto the main Sunderland Road and you can look left and right and think it's clear but then in a split second someone is flying down at 60 or 70mph (97kph to 113kph). There have been quite a few near misses," Angus told the Belfast Telegraph last week.
"Everyone around here thinks it's brilliant. My son and his family came over from New York and they just couldn't believe the difference and it's all down to this bird box."
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Zakat definitions
Zakat: an Arabic word meaning ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’.
Nisab: the minimum amount that a Muslim must have before being obliged to pay zakat. Traditionally, the nisab threshold was 87.48 grams of gold, or 612.36 grams of silver. The monetary value of the nisab therefore varies by current prices and currencies.
Zakat Al Mal: the ‘cleansing’ of wealth, as one of the five pillars of Islam; a spiritual duty for all Muslims meeting the ‘nisab’ wealth criteria in a lunar year, to pay 2.5 per cent of their wealth in alms to the deserving and needy.
Zakat Al Fitr: a donation to charity given during Ramadan, before Eid Al Fitr, in the form of food. Every adult Muslim who possesses food in excess of the needs of themselves and their family must pay two qadahs (an old measure just over 2 kilograms) of flour, wheat, barley or rice from each person in a household, as a minimum.
Election pledges on migration
CDU: "Now is the time to control the German borders and enforce strict border rejections"
SPD: "Border closures and blanket rejections at internal borders contradict the spirit of a common area of freedom"