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Coco nuts make worlds longest doormat

croatiantimes.com

An Indian doormat maker claims to have the best way to stop dirt getting in the house in the current bad weather - after inventing the world's longest doormat measuring more than 330 feet.

The mat made by the company Travancore Cocotuft Ltd is just over 1.2 metres (4ft) wide, 101.6 metres (333.3ft) long and weighs 999 kg.

Company spokesman Alfred Michel said: "Guinness World Records have asked us for the basic information and we are in the process of preparing that and once they are convinced, they will visit us to see the doormat."

The mat made of 470,000 tufts of coir hair taken from the outside of coconuts took six months to make.

Raiffeisen International's Croatian subsidiary gets 30 million loan
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Police press criminal charges against factory managers
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TV series about Josip Broz Tito airs tonight
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Vlado Franjevic promotes multilingual poetry
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Red Bull wins semi-finals against the Zagreb Bears
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Croatia and Bosnia to build a bridge across the Sava River
The Croatian and the Bosnia-Herzegovina governments should soon begin negotiations about construction of a bridge across the Sava River that forms the border between the two countries.

Student injures his friend with hot scissors
Police are investigating the case of a 14-year-old student who burned a friend with hot scissors yesterday (Thurs)

Man who slapped and kidnapped youths faces charges
Police have pressed criminal charges against a 25-year-old man for having slapped and kidnapped two youths in Benkovac near Zadar.

All Zagreb residents are invited to help clean Jarun Lake
In response to World Day for Water celebrated on 22 March, an initiative to clean Zagreb’s Lake Jarun will occur tomorrow (Sat).

New framework plan for the Zagreb Stock Exchange
Indium, a management consulting and investment firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has submitted its framework plan for the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) from 2010 to 2014 to ZSE's board of directors.