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If there is anything worse than a bad mayor –it is a bad mayor with literary ambitions. The first ever café for dog-owners opens in the town of Plzen, west Bohemia, and who’s that on the sofa? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A bid to make road junctions in the Czech Republic safer by pitching cardboard cut-outs of female officers has backfired. With their miniskirts and high heels the cut-outs have become crash-magnets instead. And, a student wins a million crowns in the lottery – and tears up the ticket. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

The animated film Kuky Returns is back – this time in English, a copper five haler coin minted in 1924 sells for half a million crowns and, Czech tattoo artists hold an auction of their work – on oranges and lemons. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A homeless man sets up house in a sewer, powering his electric appliances from a nearby street lamp. Czech celebrities dress up as famous people for charity. And where is my home – a Czech expat in search of his identity. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A wanted criminal makes a fatal mistake. Sick of Prague’s rude, unscrupulous taxi-drivers? Try a taxi service with a difference! And, a huge chunk of ice from the sky crashes through the roof of a family house. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A French pilot lands on a busy motorway near Brno. A Czech beauty queen shows off a dress made of plastic bottles and, and what do Czechs say when they smile for a photographer. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A sixty-year-old pensioner is in hot water after some left-over bird-seed he reportedly threw out in his back-yard sprouted producing a number of fine marihuana plants. A Macaque monkey is safely back in its enclosure at Olomouc zoo after repeatedly slipping out on his own private outings and, what’s to be done about a couple of gay vultures? Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

Bare students, bear tracks, bureaucratic howlers, and gum free public places. Plus the not so promising precedents for sealing the knot at an historic Prague theatre. Find out about all that and more in this week’s magazine by Chris Johnstone.

As temperatures drop even Prague’s statues are bundling up, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright was in Prague this week for the launch of her book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box and, a man wins three quarters of a million on the outcome of the senate elections. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.

A ram attacks a young woman shopping on the outskirts of Prague, why is the early arrival of ravens seen as a bad sign? And, before you take a ride in one of Prague’s horse-drawn carriages take a good look at the driver! Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarová.