Couples will often go to great lengths for a truly unique wedding photo, but some locations are a step too far. A British couple learned this the hard way and is now under fire for posing on live train tracks in North Yorkshire.

The unidentified couple is now unwillingly the face of a new campaign to educate people on rail safety.

In a Twitter post, the national Network Rail in Scotland called the photoshoot ‘plain stupidity’, and urged residents to practice basic rail safety at all times.

Plain stupidity. We can’t make it clearer.

Please, make sure you know the rail safety basics and pass that knowledge onto your loved ones. Lead by example and stay off the tracks. No ifs, no buts – no tears.https://t.co/tm5kBcRdnq pic.twitter.com/M7hkpL05Lu

— Network Rail Scotland (@NetworkRailSCOT) October 20, 2020

British Transport Police Superintendent Alison Evans explains that anyone walking across a railway line is putting themselves in danger.

“Every time someone strays onto the rail network they are not only putting themselves at risk of serious, life-threatening injury but also delaying essential journeys.

“Passenger and freight trains are still using the railway 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing much-needed services of transporting people and goods. Please, stay off the track”.

According to Network Rail and British Transport Police, there have been 5100 trespassing incidents over their summer months, and 1239 incidents recorded in September, their worst recorded month in the last five years.

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Health officials in New York City were forced to shut down an ultra-orthodox Jewish wedding planned for Monday, October 19 that was expected to bring 10 000 guests together in Brooklyn, one of the city’s COVID-19 hotspots.

New York has had 519 994 confirmed coronavirus cases and 33 477 deaths. It is the state with the most COVID-19 cases by far, although they currently have the lowest rate of new cases. 

State health commissioner Dr Howard A. Zucker had the sheriff’s deputies deliver an order to the Hasidic synagogue, Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar, warning them to follow health protocols and limit gatherings to less than 50 people. A section 16 order was issued, which carries a $10 000 daily fine if violated.

The synagogue claimed they were victims of “unwarranted attacks” by city officials. They said that the wedding, held for a grandson of the synagogue’s rabbi, would be attended by close family only, and that the public were invited to participate for a short period of time.

The wedding will continue but will be restricted to an even smaller guest list of close family only. Leaders in the orthodox Jewish community are planning a mass prayer via phone for Tuesday, October 20 in response to the wedding’s shutdown.

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Wedding goers in Zambia were treated to an unexpected show when a woman stormed into a church with children in tow and interrupted the ceremony. She demanded the wedding be stopped because the groom was her husband.

The groom, Abraham Muyunda, is married to Caroline Mubita and they share three children. Muyunda had allegedly told his wife that he was going to town for work, but in reality, he was attending his own wedding at a Catholic church in Chainda, Lusaka.

Mubita had been told by neighbours that her husband was to marry another woman, causing her to rush to interrupt the ceremony.

In a video, Mubita storms into the church with a child strapped to her back, and can be heard saying, “The wedding cannot go on. This man right here is my husband. I don’t know what is happening here.”

The groom has since been handed over to the police and may face a criminal charge of bigamy, which is illegal in Zambia. The crime could carry a sentence of up to seven years, under Zambian law.

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Shoppers in Target got a lot more than they bargained for recently, when a bride stormed through the store and demanded her fiancé marry her immediately or else they were over.

In a video shared to TikTok, the bride, wearing her wedding dress and carrying a bouquet, can be seen roaming the aisles of a Las Vegas Target with a pastor and bridesmaid in tow.

She finally finds her fiancé, a Target employee who was stocking shelves, and demands he marry her on the spot.

The bride can be heard telling her fiancé, “You put this ring on my finger two years ago and it’s time to do it or get out.

“Yeah we’re getting married right now or I’m leaving, I’m out. I’m done, like if you don’t marry me this second. I brought a pastor, I brought Emily, she’s my bridesmaid.”

Since being shared to TikTok, the video has gone viral and was been watched over 5 million times.

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A woman from Port Elizabeth is taking legal steps to become single again after discovering she has been married for 16 years to a man she has never met.

The 41-year-old, who prefers to remain anonymous, told Rapport that she discovered she is married to a Chinese man named Chao Chen while applying for a new ID in 2016.

She had lost her ID when she moved from Cape Town to PE, and also applied for a social grant when she applied for her new ID. It was then that she was informed that she was married in community of property with Chen.

According to Home Affairs, fraudulent marriages are quite common, and many are reported every year. This fraudulent marriage occurs when someone uses another’s ID to register a marriage between them.

The woman has since approached the Pretoria High Court and its working with the Wits Law Clinic to invalidate the fraudulent marriage. The first step is to make Chen aware of the legal proceedings, however, he cannot be found.

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