Baby ray’s alien smile

Visitors to a Hampshire aquarium are being greeted by an eerily alien-like smiling face.

People have likened the baby thornback ray’s distinctive face to the ‘Last Human’ featured on Doctor Who.
In the BBC series, the last surviving human was reduced to a stretched sheet of human skin with just a pair of eyes and a mouth.
The [...]

The Mystery of Math

The Mystery of Math!
1 x 8 + 1 = 912 x 8 + 2 = 98123 x 8 + 3 = 9871234 x 8 + 4 = 987612345 x 8 + 5 = 98765123456 x 8 + 6 = 9876541234567 x 8 + 7 = 987654312345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432123456789 x 8 + [...]

Crazy frog on a bike!

A Thai woman claims her pet frog enjoys riding toy motorcycles and can predict winning lottery numbers.

Tongsai Boommrungtai, 52, came across the black spotted frog, which she called Nong Oui, outside her house in Roi-Et.
“The frog had a small chick in its mouth,” she said. “I looked her straight in the eye [...]

Lotto luck in Kent

Kent is the best place to live if you want to win the Lottery.
The county has topped Ilford in Essex as the most likely place to win millions.

Ilford has been the luckiest place to live for the past five years but has now been beaten by the ME postcode.
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Return of the Shedi

A group of friends have recreated two Star Wars films in a Lincolnshire garage.

They used household objects as scenery, toys as props and PC wizardry to recreate the special effects, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Backyard Productions have so far spoofed two Star Wars movies, calling them The Empire Strikes Backyard and Star Wars - [...]

11 month hiccup attack

A Lincoln man suffered non-stop hiccups for the past 11 months.
Chris Sands, 24, has tried everything including holding his breath, drinking from the wrong side of a glass and getting a fright since the hiccups started last February.
So far nothing has worked and the singer has been left unable to perform with his [...]

Leaning tower of Pisa loses title

A German church steeple has knocked the leaning tower of Pisa from the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s most lopsided building.

The tower in the village of Suurhusen applied in June for the title and has now officially beaten the famous landmark in Pisa.Guinness Book of Records confirmed the award after officials measured it [...]

Police sting upsets Ozzie

Ozzy Osbourne claims his reputation has been tarnished by a US police sting operation.
Police sent invites to 500 people for a party at which Ozzy was supposed to be the star guest.But the party in Farg North Dakota, was actually a scam by police officers to round up missing criminal suspects.Osbourne said it was “insulting” [...]

Dancing dentist injures patient

A US woman is suing her dentist who she claims nearly drilled her eye while dancing to the disco classic Car Wash.Brandy Fanning, 31, claims George Trusty was dancing to Rose Royce’s 1976 hit when his drill slipped, reports the Syracuse Post-Standard.The inch-long bit punctured her sinus cavity, lodging by her eye socket at the [...]

Judge sacked after coin toss verdict

A US judge who decided a custody dispute by tossing a coin has lost his job.The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that Judge James Michael Shull failed to uphold the dignity of the judiciary.Shull admitted tossing a coin to determine which divorced parent would get a child for Christmas.He said he was trying to encourage the [...]