THEY definitely needed a minor ailments scheme in the southern Spanish town of Estopona last week, where a much-vaunted "urban slide" has been closed after just one day of operation due to a spate of injuries.
The 38m-long slide (pictured) was created as a short-cut between two streets, reducing the travel time from 10 minutes of walking to just a few seconds of exhilaration.
Costing about $40,000, the stainless steel slippery dip has a 33 degree gradient, and shortly after opening featured in scores of social media postings showing hapless citizens hurtling off the end at high speed.
And in another scientific research breakthrough, mysterious signals which baffled astronomers at Parkes Observatory for the last 17 years have been traced to the facility's microwave oven.
The CSIRO released details of the anomaly which was initially attributed to local lightning strikes at the remotely-operated "Dish".
After installing a new monitor to detect the interference it was found to centre on the 2.4GHz frequency - the same as that emitted by the microwave when workers were reheating food during maintenance visits.
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