Prince Charlie and a traditional English stag do?

"THE PRINCE of Wales is to visit West Cumbria just two weeks before his wedding to Camilla Parker-Bowles.

It will be the Prince's second visit to Cumbria in three months back in January he made a special visit to Carlisle to talk to residents and businesses.

He is coming to West Cumbria on Tuesday, March 22 - just 17 days before he weds his long-term partner Camilla Parker-Bowles at Windsor Guildhall on April 8. He is understood to be visiting Cockermouth.

The timing of the visit has fuelled speculation that he might be coming to the Lakes for his stag night celebrations. However, details of the prince's visit are being kept firmly under wraps at the moment.

The Clarence House press office said he was going to be "out of town" at the end of the month and that visits are not usually confirmed officially until two weeks before. But a spokesman added it was likely the prince would be coming to Cockermouth this month. "

Pranks gone wrong

"Stag party prank costs Killimor brickie £1,000
A block layer who swung out of a restaurant canopy following a night's drinking at a stag party, paid over £1000 for its repair at Galway District Court this week and was advised by Judge Mary Fahy to "walk on by" the next time he got the urge to swing from one.
Mark Headd (22), Corr, Killimor, Co Galway, pleaded guilty before Galway District Court last December to causing criminal damage to the awning at Trattoria restaurant, Quay Street, on August 15 last and to breaching the peace on the same occasion.

That court heard the accused had been very drunk when he swung out of the awning at 9.40pm on the date in question. He tried to get up on it to get a piece of his friend's clothing and became very abusive when a waitress, who had witnessed the entire episode, approached him and told him to get down.
Judge Mary Fahy convicted and fined the accused £200 for breaching the peace but adjourned the criminal damage charge to this week giving Headd a chance to pay the £1,000.
She applied the Probation Act on the remaining charge when the money was paid over in court and said to the accused, "Next time you see a canopy, just admire it and walk on by."

Prince turns down Austrailian "Buck's party"

Charles says no to Aussie stag party: "The town had been hoping for a glimpse of the prince later in the day. They were waiting a few miles away in the centre of Alice Springs at the Bojangles bar, where the mayor and the owner were throwing a stag party for the prince. 'We sent him an invite,' said Mr Nicholls, who helped organise the event. 'We've got the red carpet and everything, we just want to drink a toast to the guy and show him a good 'buck's do' Alice-style.
'I feel sorry for him that he can't relax and let his hair down once in a while.'
Sticking to his tight schedule, the prince declined the invitation and instead the town had to make do with a lookalike Prince of Wales and a lookalike Queen. 'Since she's not going to the wedding, we thought she'd better come to the stag,' Mr Nicholls said. "

Aussie stag night for Charles

Sydney - Councillors in Alice Springs have offered to take Prince Charles on an Aussie-style stag night when he visits next month, while promising the heir to the throne will not end up chained naked to a lamp post.

Charles will arrive in Australia for a five-day visit taking in the remote Northern Territory town on 28 February without his bride-to-be Camilla Parker Bowles, who he will marry on 8 April.
Alice Springs alderman Ernie Nicholls said the council wanted to organise an appropriate "territory send-off".

"We are going to put it to Charles when he comes here, to have his bucks night here," he said. "Have you heard anyone else offering one?
"Everyone's got to have a bucks night.

"Most people learn after the first, but he wants to have a second run at it so we'll give him a good send-off."

Nicholls said a local pub in town had live web cameras, so Camilla could keep an eye on her future groom.

"If he's playing up too much I'm sure Camilla could send him an e-mail or something," he said.
"Someone's suggested we chain him naked to the traffic lights but we wouldn't do anything that bad."

Nicholls was optimistic Prince Charles would agree to the party.
"I can't see why he wouldn't be up for it," he said. "He's a bit of a lad. A few beers, a couple of rums, we'll get him going."