Pierce articles
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including the fire eater, Bollywood star, and body piercing legend
Meet 9 Wearside people whose amazing achievements got them the Echo spotlight. But we want to know: Can you tell us more about them. There's the man who set world records for the most body piercings. The hero who pulled a car for 20 hours and the kids who grabbed an early dose of fame on TV shows. Let's not forget the fire eater who climbed to the top of Scafell to breathe flames, or the Bollywood star who settled in Sunderland. Question is - what happened to them after they hit the headlines?...
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NASA confirms its space trash pierced Florida man’s roof
On March 8, a piece of space debris plunged through a roof in Naples, FL, ripped through two floors and (fortunately) missed the son of homeowner Alejandro Otero. On Tuesday, NASA confirmed the results of its analysis of the incident. As suspected, it’s a piece of equipment dumped from the International Space Station (ISS) three years ago. NASA’s investigation of the object at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral confirmed it was a piece of the EP-9 support equipment used to mount batteries...
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ANDREW PIERCE: Target embassy fat cats, Sadiq, not ordinary drivers
ANDREW PIERCE: The world's diplomats, who flit around London's embassies in chauffeur-driven limousines, have racked up a staggering £143million in unpaid Congestion Charge fines.