AUTHORITIES in Slovenia are planning to bring formal fraud charges against a woman who deliberately cut her hand off with a circular saw in order to collect an insurance payout.
Reports this week allege the 21-year-old and her family conspired to take out five different insurance policies, worth about 400,000, prior to a claimed "accident" in which she said she had been cutting tree branches when she severed her left arm just above the wrist.
While she was rushed to hospital, police say family members deliberately left the severed hand behind to ensure the disability was permanent - but doctors managed to recover the limb in time to reattach it.
"There was no payment because we discovered the fraud in time," authorities said.
Newly released documents from the archives of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have indicated she was a regular user of "alternative medicines".
The BBC revelations reflected the friendship between the Iron Lady and prolific romance novelist Barbara Cartland - Thatcher's step-grandmother - who sent Maggie a range of remedies.
Letters made public by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation include one from Cartland which enclosed "a new product from the Health Movement" in case the Baroness ever felt tired.
Other products suggested by Cartland included jetlag remedies, while the correspondence also includes a mystic reference to a "golden acorn".
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