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Border cops in the United States of America were shocked when a routine stop of an off-road go-kart and trailer yielded a stash of bhang at the border with Mexico. The Border Patrol’s Yuma sector said agents and officers from the Cocopah Tribal Police Department in Arisono spotted the single-seater go-kart hauling a trailer through the desert near Yuma, Arizona on Tuesday night and gave chase. The driver abandoned the homemade vehicle, which was spray painted a desert beige, fitted with knobbly off-road tires, and towing a trailer packed with bhang and fled back to Mexico.

An Italian luxury shoemaker is willing to pay Sh134,000 (£ 1,000) per square foot in rent to retain his shop in central London’s prestigious Bond Street. Mr Salvatore Ferragamo is close to agreeing the deal that would break the previous record of Sh128,000 per square foot on the same glitzy shopping street by jeweler Piaget in December 2009.