An injured seagull taken in by Helen Walters, 40, scoffed her two pet goldfish when she popped out at Northam, Devon. |
Granny Nancy Grant, 86, had a flower-decked zimmer frame when she was a bridesmaid for the first time at a wedding in Neath, South Wales. |
Bargain hunter Neil Morley, 37, slept outside a shop to get a DVD Player and returned home to find his TV stolen in Hastings. |
"I don't give a toss what the media thinks", fumed Trevor Francis recently. It must be a different Francis who has a lucrative sideline as a Sky TV analyst. |
A new plaque on a rail platform at Widnes, Cheshire, marks the spot where Paul Simon wrote 60's hit Homeward Bound. |
Villager Bert Betts has had an M27 slip road named after him at Bursledon, near Southampton. |
The average man grows 26ft of hair on his head over the course of his life say researchers in Canada who are studying baldness. |
Thomas and Elizabeth Whitehead will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary by staying in the same room in a hotel in Cyprus for the 36th time. |
Janet Thrope, aged 106, and pals at an old folks' home are knitting a scarf ONE MILE long to raise charity cash in Swinton, South Yorks. |
Frigid chimpanzees are being shown videos of love-making by other monkeys to get them in the mood at a zoo in Valencia, Spain. |
Wacky Fred Pearson, 36, of Harrogate has more than 700 toys from Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs, and values his collection at £2,000. |
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Riding fan Zara Phillips, 19, posed on a mechanical horse at the London launch of a project to attract young riders |
3-2-1 TV legend Ted Rogers has died of a heart attack aged 65. |
A former 19th century brothel in York has been converted into a restaurant - decorated with black and white pictures of the 'working girls'. |
Villagers of Messing, Essex - home of George W.Bush's ancestors - invited him to be their president for a day. |
A man is fighting a drink-drive rap in Arkansas, USA, on the grounds that his vehicle did not have a motor - because it was a horse. |
'FIT and HEALTHY' dwarfs are wanted for the world dwarf throwing championships, back in England for the first time since causing uproar in 1986. |
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MOBY BARTHEZ |
A middle-aged motorist was twice the drink-drive limit after scoffing 42 liqueur chocolates. He got a three-year ban at Wennigsen, Germany. |
Scalextric nut Mark Scale, 38, and 20 of his pals built the world's longest toy race circuit in Manchester's Trafford Centre - at 2,550 FEET |
The skeleton of a man hanged for murder in the 19th century was dug up by builders fixing drains at Taunton police station, Somerset. |
Traffic warden John Power, 49, is riding from Land's End to John O'Groats on a jet-ski. |
A man who caught rabies from a dog-bite in the Phillipines has died at London's University College Hospital. |
Grandad Ralph Morgan scrapped a bungee jump on his 65th birthday after spraining his ankle falling off a skateboard. |
Wesley Snipes was held by customs when he flew into Prague for new movie Blade 2 - he had 200 pairs of Y-fronts in his luggage. |
An 18-year-old student killed himself and injured six college pals when a hand grenade exploded as he juggled with it at a party in Vidovci, Croatia. |
John Prescott was caught on camera throwing a vicious rabbit punch into the jaw of an egg-lobbing street thug. |
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Gran Jean Hudson, 84, was knocked out by a wedding cake when a table collapsed during her grand-daughter's big day at East Grinstead, East Sussex. |
Salesman Leo Pusa, 38, has claimed a new world sauna-sitting record after enduring 12 minutes 6 seconds at 120 degrees in Finland. |
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