HARSTAD, Norway, March 3 (UPI) -- A group of British soldiers in northern Norway for winter exercises took it all off in a drunken striptease in a bar in Harstad, a published report said.

Once they had their clothes off, the soldiers urinated on the floor of the Sfinx bar and on each other, Aftenposten reported.

Cecelie Kleppe told VG, an Oslo newspaper, the soldiers were already annoying even before they took off their clothes -- but then they started to yell "naked bar."

"Some of them even started waving their private parts at the other guests," Kleppe said. "Two of the Englishmen urinated on a fellow soldier who was lying on the floor. It was disgusting."

Northern Norway serves as a training area for winter and mountain fighting for many NATO countries. Harstad, 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle, is the principal town in the Vesteralen Islands.

The bar manager said he did not report the soldiers' conduct to police but had been assured by military officials they would be punished.

Claim: Navigation devices get drivers lost

LONDON, March 3 (UPI) -- British drivers are being led astray by navigation devices that are supposed to make driving easier, a published report said.

Satellite navigation systems, called GPS in the United States and SatNavs in Europe, have become so popular that 2.3 million of them were purchased in Britain last year, The Washington Times reported.

But the country's small villages, narrow curvy roads, wetlands, streams and bridges apparently hamper the effectiveness of these high-tech devices.

One SatNav mistake led army tanks down a small lane in the quaint village of Donnington several times, because the navigation device confused the village with the Donnington barracks 15 miles away, the newspaper said. A resident of the village said it was "like an invasion."

Railroad officials said SatNavs cause $20 million in damages annually by leading vehicles onto 2,000 railroad bridges a year.

Students protest anti-hug rule

MESA, Ariz., March 3 (UPI) -- Students at a junior high school in Mesa, Ariz., protested punishment handed to classmates for breaking a 2-second hug rule.

Shepherd Junior High School student Chelsea Branham, 14, participated in a 20-minute student hug-a-thon Friday after she was given detention for hugging a friend, KPHO-TV in Phoenix reported.

"I think it's ridiculous. It's not like it's supposed to mean anything. It's not like I was making out with him or something," she said.

"She's taking a stand and I'm standing behind her to do it," her mother said.

The school began punishing huggers after students complained about excessive public displays of affection in hallways, KPHO reported.

"What we're doing here is hoping to help kids understand what's happening," Kathy Bareiss of Mesa public schools said.

The school planned to hand out a list Monday of which specific behaviors are tolerated, officials said.

Poll: British moms are unhappy with bodies

LONDON, March 3 (UPI) -- Youthful celebrity mothers, or "yummy mummies," are making many British mothers feel inadequate, a poll indicated.

The poll, conducted by the Mumsnet Internet site, revealed less than 25 percent of 1,300 mothers were happy with the way they looked, and 50 percent said they were unhappy in general, The Sunday Telegraph said.

"There is a really ugly underbelly to the cult of the celebrity yummy mummy. It leaves women feeling inadequate about their bodies at a point when they have enough to deal with, adjusting to a whole new role in life," said psychologist Susie Orbach.

Forty percent of mothers under 26-years-old said they became upset when seeing pictures of celebrity moms like Victoria Beckham. Thirty-seven percent of women said they were glad to sport a bikini after having a baby -- almost half the number of women who said they would wear a skimpy swimsuit before childbirth.