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In this week’s Magazine: activists demonstrate in support of direct presidential elections; Tesco decides to rename its Czech department stores; the Czech Republic sees a drop in the number of affluent tourists; and, a leggy blonde wins Czech Miss.

Czechs are feeling the credit crunch but fortune-tellers say their business is booming! A woman gives birth on the D-five highway in minus ten degree temperatures, and why the swans of the Vltava river need to go on a diet. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A team of firefighters assist with a surgical operation in hospital, President Klaus gets a cake to celebrate six years in office, and a Czech thief cuts the skin off his fingertips to prevent the police identifying his fingerprints – in vain. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A team of Czech baristas make the biggest cappuccino ever, a jar of honey causes a security scare at Mošnov airport and the Technical Museum in Brno offers visitors a look at the lighter side of life with an exhibition of nonsensical inventions. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

Lake Lipno in South Bohemia boasts the longest natural ice-skating track in the Czech Republic and possibly the longest maintained skating track in the world. A Czech potato grower congratulates US President Barack Obama on his inauguration, and Czech anglers take to frozen lake fishing. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A Buddha Bar Hotel opens in Prague, a Czech-made Škoda car ends up getting wedged in a church roof after flying 100ft in the air, and a group of enthusiasts collect money to build an 18th century schooner. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

One of Josef Lada’s famous illustrations comes to life. Two beer fans from Liberec have invented a mobile beer crate that you can drive home, and the town of Jilemnice boasts a snow sculpture of the legendary Krakonoš giant. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

The fugitive Czech businessman Radovan Krejčíř is thumbing his nose at the Czech authorities – from the page of new calendar promoting luxury cars. Got any spare orchid roots? Make a handbag! And, yes ma’am! The town where women call the shots. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

Dieting to be slim? Think again. A new survey has revealed that women with a 42 dress size (size 14) are happier than others! Scuba divers drink a toast to the New Year 20 meters underwater and, why is there so little water in the sea? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

Doctors are trying to get Czechs to eat carp all year round, not just at Christmas. Political opponents raise their voices in song together, and over 100 hardy Czechs prepare to jump into the Vltava river on New Year’s Day. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.