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In Magazine: the Ship of Fools passes through Prague, the world champ in pull-ups is Czech, breweries are preparing a number of special brews for the Christmas market, meet Ivan, Vasil, Sergei, Igor and Boris, five Russian veterans on the road and Czech pensioners pose for an action-packed calendar.

In Magazine: a young actress pays the price for giving an officer a hefty kick in the butt, Czechs biggest fashion sin on the runway in Paris, a Slovak nun puts the Skoda Fabia to the test, why do Czechs start their day early and Mr. Bean’s Mini Morris graces Tabor’s Chocolate Museum.

In Magazine: a third of young Czechs aged 20-30 live with their parents, fewer and fewer families now sit down to dinner together, foreign diplomats put on their soccer shoes to fight racism and Prague City transport brings out its oldest horse-drawn tram.

In Magazine: what do Czechs expect of their holidays? Sunbathing, shopping, surfing the web and with a bit of luck, some sex. A Czech tourist on holiday in Bulgaria complains that there were “too many Bulgarians on the beach”, a botched translation job has made South Moravia the butt of ridicule and Lebanese-based designer Blanka Matragi wows the public with a glass dress.

In Magazine: a chink in the armour of the Czech military, a forty-metre-tall brick chimney in bloom, a Czech town holds its annual bread-baking celebration and forget about exotic breeds “adopt” a bench on Wenceslas Square!

In Magazine: the state spends 230 million crowns inefficiently to make the civil service more efficient, a group of musicians from Benin end up in detention on suspicion of being illegal migrants, an English language teacher is sacked for letting her class watch 50 Shades of Grey and half of Czechs believe they are underpaid.

In Magazine: an old Czechoslovak banknote, long out of circulation, is voted fourth best in the world; careful, frog on the road! Czech roads will soon get new animal signs, a picture of the Czech finance minister, dressed as a woman, has appeared on beer mats and where is the Czech winner of the biggest-ever Eurojackpot?

In Magazine: a Czech couple caught having sex in public in New Zealand argued that it was perfectly normal in the Czech Republic, the Jablonec Muzeum of Glass is showing figurines of famous politicians, storybook characters and fictional heroes, a third of Czechs try to avoid physical activity, and, the town of Ivančice hosts its annual Asparagus Festival.

In Magazine: President Zeman’s critics offer him as a gift to Russian President Putin, the Czech winner of the North Pole Marathon trained in a cold store; Brno’s Hotel International goes for urban beekeeping and a group of enthusiasts jazz up a former Soviet warehouse for nuclear warheads.

In Magazine: a class of graduates wow their school with a near-naked dance act, a newly-married couple is suing a wedding agency for wrecking their wedding day, a fraudster dupes forty people in Prague with a ludicrous offer and people in Brno have a new communication platform – one of the city’s trams.