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No More Kissing at the Train Station If You Live In Cheshire

First the UK's Travel Czar, now this.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that nobody likes a full on spot of necking to be in their line of vision first thing on a Monday morning. But is a peck on the cheek really that bad? We ask because the Independent reports that the managers of one British railway station think that it’s such a terrible thing that they’ve introduced “No Kissing” zones on the premises.

Apparently, the signs--featuring Brief Encounter-y and completely sexist silhouettes of a man in a hat and a mega-permed housewife woman puckering up--were put up last Friday to divide the carpark and taxi ranks of Warrington station in Cheshire into “Kissing” and “No Kissing” zones.

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Learning the Polish For Road Diversion

Driving around Britain just got a lot easier ... for Polish speakers. In what seems like a trouble-inducing precedent, the following sign was recently erected in Cheshire, England:

Do A 49 Whitchurch skrec w nastepna droge w prawo.

Which basically means you should turn right soon if you want to go to Whitchurch. With 3000 Polish immigrants living in the area, the local council decided to "cater for their needs." But what does this mean for us as travelers? If there are a few thousand of us heading anywhere in a given year, should we also expect multilingual road signs? Time to learn a little Polski, perhaps?

[Photo: mr zenit]

Related Stories:
· Diversion Signs in Polish [BBC]
· Poles Queue to Get Into Crewe [The Sun]