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Woman's gown barred from Disney Paris

PARIS, April 21 (UPI) -- A British woman said she was humiliated when staff at Disneyland Paris refused to allow her to enter with her 8-year-old daughter because of her fancy gown.

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Natasha Narula, 35, of Coventry, England, said she dressed in a $30 gown so she and her daughter, Drew, could pretend to be princesses while visiting the theme park April 1, but staff at the entrance told her she would have to change because people might confuse her for a costumed character, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

"I thought they were playing a joke on me because it was April Fool's Day at first," she said. "But I spoke to a manager and she said they were concerned children would think I worked there and wanted to have their picture with me."

"I didn't even have any make-up on and didn't look anything like the characters in the park, it wasn't like I was wearing a big Mickey Mouse outfit, it was just a dress," Narula said. "How can they possibly say I looked too much like a princess? I was wearing a hideous wedding dress I bought from Oxfam for 20 pounds ($30)."

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Narula said she was admitted to the park after changing into jeans and a T-shirt. Drew was allowed to keep her own fancy gown due to her young age.


Woman who lost purse with cocaine arrested

PERTH, Scotland, April 21 (UPI) -- Scottish police said a woman who visited the station to collect her lost purse was arrested immediately for possession of the cocaine found inside the bag.

Authorities in Perth said Katrina Purll, 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of $23 worth of cocaine and was ordered to pay a $460 fine, The Daily Record, Glasgow, reported Wednesday.

Police said Purll left the bag at a pub in November and was immediately arrested when she arrived at a police office to collect the purse.

"It seems not to have crossed her mind that the first thing we do with a bag which is handed in is have a good look through it," a police source told the Record. "There was a small bag of cocaine and no one expected the owner to ask for it back."

John McLaughlin, Purll's lawyer, said his client discovered the bag of cocaine on a cistern.

"The barman said she should take it to the police. She accepts going to collect it was a naive and foolish thing to do," McLaughlin said.

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Few apply for 'tanning butler' job

SOUTH BEACH, Fla., April 21 (UPI) -- A Florida hotel's search for a "tanning butler," a man who applies lotion to sunbathing hotel guests, resulted in only three applicants, officials said.

The Ritz-Carlton South Beach announced a "casting call" for the position, which was invented about seven years ago, but only three men turned up to apply for the position Tuesday, despite national media reports about the search, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday.

"Finding a tanning butler is hard," hotel publicist Michelle Payer said.

She said the hotel has lost two previous tanning butlers to Armani modeling campaigns.

Paylor said the hotel will continue searching for the right person to fill the job.


Cats evicted for Bush library

UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas, April 21 (UPI) -- Members of the Southern Methodist University feral cat program in Texas said the George W. Bush presidential library will leave the felines without a home.

Althea Webb, a volunteer with the university-funded program, said feral cats are relocated every time the school demolishes or creates a building and their current home, the future site of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, is difficult to move the felines away from because of the difficulty in getting the cats to migrate across streets, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.

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"It's hard to move cats," Webb said. "Cats don't like to move."

She said volunteers move the colonies of feral cats by relocating shelters by small increments.

Webb said she is concerned officials with the Bush library will want the cats completely off the property.

"The Bush library is going to want to be new and beautiful," she said. "We'd love to have elegant matching kitty condos, but we're not going to do that."

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