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AN 82-year-old tailor in Bradford says he is busier than ever after coming out of retirement. Ray Lister has swapped retirement for making suits at IK Collections shop in Westgate, where he works every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Since he returned to work, Mr Lister has helped make suits for the late Captain Sir Tom Moore and entertainer John Barrowman, who wore his for the final of this year s Dancing on Ice, live on ITV. Mr Lister was initially persuaded to come out of retirement by Imran Khan, owner of IK Collections. After leaving school and doing his national service and a spell working in Leeds and Nottingham, Mr Lister moved to Bradford and had his own shop in the city.
And other stories from the stranger side of life
by The Week team
7 May 2021
A farmer in Belgium has inadvertently redrawn the country’s border with France. The man was annoyed to find a large rock in his tractor’s path and moved it inside French territory. Later, a local historian was walking in the forest when he noticed the rock, which marks the boundary between the two countries, had moved 2.29m. “We should be able to avoid a new border war,” said the mayor of the adjoining French village, Aurélie Welonek.
Woman gives birth to nine babies
A woman from Mali who was expecting seven babies has actually given birth to nine. Halima Cisse delivered the nonuplets - five girls and four boys - at a hospital in Morocco. She and the newborns are said to be “doing well”. Two sets of nonuplets have been recorded in the past - one born to a woman in Australia in 1971 and another to a woman in Malaysia in 1999 - but none of those babies survived.