Cannabis found in rum boxes (Oldham Chronicle)BORDER officials have uncovered a plot to smuggle £62,000 worth of cannabis into the country through Manchester Airport.

Eckhart and Jenkins join Depp in "Rum Diary" (Tiscali)BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Aaron Eckhart and Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins will be hitting the sauce in "The Rum Diary," the screen adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel that stars Johnny Depp.

Royal Unibrew Enters Into Conditional Agreement With Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana (Drinks Business Review)Revenues for the first half of 2009 up by 9% ... The company looks forward to full review on Havana Club rum case ...

A Look Back:Prohibited or not, the booze kept flowing (Daily Pilot)Decades before the Prohibition era brought smugglers to Newport's beaches, their boats laden with barrels of whiskey and rum, the city had a problem with unlicensed drinking establishments called blind pigs.

Monday, August 17, 2009 (The Nassau Guardian)Member of Parliament for Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador Philip Brave Davis yesterday called for the government to "re-think" its decision to suspend the guaranteed loan program indefinitely.

Rum-runners' stash seized by RCMP (CBC Newfoundland and Labrador)RCMP in southern Newfoundland found $14,000 worth of smuggled Caribbean rum Thursday morning.

Parliament haunted by ghosts (Adelaide Now)THERE is the ghostly man who walks through the floor, a silent horse drawn carriage out the front and down the road a baby cries at night.

Sydney, and other stuff (Australian Literature Diary)Wow, a two-week hiatus. I don't think I've not-blogged for that long since I started in October 2005. For some reason this time of year, anything between August and November, always seems busier than usual.

Briton fined for abusing Indian-origin taxi driver (NDTV)A drunk British woman who racially abused an Indian origin taxi-driver in the east Midlands town of Leicester as he drove the couple home has been ordered to pay 300 pounds in compensation.

SOLAS - Bassett Hound duo looking for a new home (The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil)Two for one is always a good deal … this week it's even better. Boris and Buford are fun loving Bassett Hounds who came into the Council Bluffs Animal Shelter, 2821 S. 15th St., together and would really like to stay together. To make that become a reality – SOLAS will pay the adoption fee ($30) for one of the dogs when you adopt the other one. You will be responsible for paying the bonds on ...

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