BATH, England, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Commuters who use Britain's First Great Western railway line staged a "strike" Monday to protest against packed, unreliable trains and rising prices.

At least 40 passengers showed up to the railway's Bath Spa station Monday with a special ticket reading "Worst Late Western" and "Route To Hell And Back," The Daily Mail reported.

First Great Western insisted the majority of the passengers who presented false vouchers had already bought a real ticket.

The commuters have also won support from the nations biggest railway union, the Rail Maritime and Transport Workers.

"First Great Western passengers have every right to feel short-changed by a company that proves that franchising cannot deliver the railway Britain needs," said its general secretary, Bob Crow.

Shop to stop selling 'Surf City' T-shirts

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A turf war over surf wear between a California community and a shop owner in another city has been resolved, a lawyer involved in the trademark dispute said.

Richard Sybert, who represents the tourism bureau in Huntington Beach, Calif., said a settlement with Flotsam of California Inc. in Santa Cruz over the "Surf City" designation will halt sales of T-shirts reading: "Surf City, Santa Cruz California, U.S.A." at the store, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

"My client is pleased at the resolution," he said. "The shirts will be changed and the challenge to my client's trademark dismissed."

Theodore Townsend Herhold, an attorney for Flotsam, confirmed the matter had been resolved.

"T-shirts will be on sale again, and we'll let everybody draw their own conclusions from that," he said. "Once the T-shirts are out, it will become evident."

Huntington Beach registered the "Surf City U.S.A." label in May 2006, triggering the trademark tug of war.

Student disciplined for drinking shandy

BLANDFORD, England, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A 15-year-old student was suspended from a Blandford, England, school after drinking a can of lemonade shandy on school grounds.

Shandy is beer flavored with lemonade or another soft drink, usually one part beer, ten parts lemonade, sold in the soda section of super markets, Britain's Daily Mail reported Monday.

Ben Reynolds was given the can of shandy by his mother, Carol, who had been sending him to school with the slightly alcoholic drink for nearly a month.

The alcohol content of the drink is 0.5 per cent, not enough to legally qualify as an intoxicating liquor.

Carol Reynolds, 33, described her son's treatment as "outrageous."

"I was shocked when I got the phone call, I couldn't quite believe I was being told Benjamin was in trouble for having a can of lemonade shandy," she said.

Vt. town to vote on Bush arrest

BRATTLEBORO, Vt., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Officials in Brattleboro, Vt., have decided to allow residents to vote at a town meeting on whether to indict U.S. President Bush for war crimes.

The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 to put the measure, which would allow for the indictment and arrest of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice charges if they ever visit Vermont, on the Town Meeting Day warning, the Rutland (Vt.) Herald reported Monday.

Town Clerk Annette Cappy said residents will vote on the measure using paper ballots at the March 4 meeting.

Critics of the measure have questioned whether the town actually has the power to enforce an affirmative outcome of the vote.

Kurt Daims, who organized the petition drive to have the measure considered, claims Bush and Cheney committed perjury by lying to Congress and the entire nation about the basis of the war in Iraq.

"This is exactly what the charter envisioned as a citizen initiative," Daims said. "People want to express themselves and they want to say how they feel."

Vermont is the only state Bush has not visited since he took office in 2001.