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In this week’s edition of Magazine: weddings held under water, chapels by the motorway, renaming rivers, thieves stealing entire bridges, Czech technology helping the disabled use computers and the most absent Czech MP…

In this week’s Magazine find out how a modern art exhibit shocked newly-weds in Pardubice; a growing number of Czechs are lining up for cosmetic surgery; Czech gym teachers decry the poor level of physical fitness among kids at the start of the new year. And, why couldn’t he just collect stamps? A Czech collector boasts a grand collection of historic enema kits.

Who can eat more dumplings? An American beats Czechs at their own game! Pro-radar activists stage a sleep-in on Jan Palach square in Prague and, the communist-era chewing gum Pedro is about to make a come-back! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

A functionalist public restroom in the city of Brno may soon receive protected heritage status, models present a fashion line made of garbage and the Octopus is dead - will the Ray have better luck? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Hot for each other: a forty-seven-year-old man and a forty-year-old woman shock passers-by in a park near the city centre of Cheb by giving in to the urge to have sex here-and-now. Dogs get a coin-operated dog wash franchise, and the country has a shortage of grave-diggers. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

A car-thief makes off with a car, not realizing there’s an eight-year-old boy sitting inside. A man reports a deer to the police for allegedly harassing his family and, the police are searching high and low for a suspect who escaped from a police station – handcuffed. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

A hotel owner in the Šumava mountains has a small replica of the Iron Curtain, a dolphin attacks a Czech tourist in Cuba and Winnie-the-Pooh appears in a field in Moravia. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Erhard Falk from the German town of Pfaffenrod has built a monument to the Czech herbal liquor Becherovka in his garden, fans of mysticism are due meet at Kost castle this weekend for their fifth annual Witch Congress, and Prague gets its first coffee museum. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Boot camps have become increasingly popularity among Czech managers. What makes carnivorous plants so popular, and a scruffy devoted little dog whose master died five years ago shows up every day at Motol Hospital to wait for him. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Thousands of Czechs are offering their couches to travelers within the international CouchSurfing Project. Is that a puffball or a truffle? And, the logo of the Czech police force is being used to help sell a variety of articles from knickers to beer glasses. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.