In an effort to keep their promenades free from horse droppings, local officials in Blackpool proposed that horse-drawn carriages in the seaside town of north-western England be fitted for diapers. Previously, landau drivers had volunteered to follow carriages with a bucket and shovel in their desperation to keep the tourist town clean. But apparently, council chiefs are not satisfied with the landau drivers' plan and had other ideas, ordering every landau at the seaside resort to be fitted with a rubber and plastic container to collect the droppings.

A Georgia woman was cited for a DUI while riding a horse after she steering the animal into traffic. A Pontiac Bonneville struck the horse injuring two young passengers and the driver. Heather Darnell, 22, of Mountain City was airlifted to the Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Ga and the horse reportedly survived the incident. Ancella Gragg, 32, a 13-year-old girl and 9-year-old boy were all treated at Mountain Lakes Medical Center in Clayton, Ga.

For missing out on his original bet, a man has won over $150,000 for placing a $38 bet on horses he does not like. According to The Sun newspaper, the lucky man who does not want to be identified, had wanted to bet on a seven-horse accumulator.

A new owner of a pub in Britain was shocked when she discovered that one of her regular customers is a horse. Jackie Gray recently became the owner of the Alexandra Hotel in Jarrow, Tyneside in England. She said she was surprised when a 12-year-old horse named Peggy, joined her master Peter Dolan, for a pint of beer.

Sacha Baron Cohen tried to get into the White House while posing as a fake TV reporter from Kazakhstan, but he didn't succeed. Secret Service agents turned away Cohen, who was pretending to be Borat, an anti-semitic journalist. He was there to invite President Bush to a screening of his movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. "