A mechanic at a garage in Oxford found more than an engine when he popped the bonnet of the Mini Cooper he was working on. Steve Spacksman who works at Carringtons of Oxford was carrying out the MOT on a customer’s Mini when he and colleague Wayne Hunt lifted the bonnet and discovered a seven-foot-long [...]
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A shop assistant from Aberdeen was stung by a poisonous scorpion this week whilst unpacking bananas. 48-year-old Bill Clark was fingering the bananas at Farmfoods in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, when he felt a painful sting. The supermarket shelf-stacker said he initially thought he’d pricked himself on a piece of glass, until he spied the pincer-clawed rotter [...]
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The Seriously Strong cheese people have put together a giant version of the classic pub grub dish. The massive ploughman’s lunch was unveiled in Battersea, London, on Friday and consisted of over a tonne of cheddar cheese, 60kg of tomatoes, 6,500 pickled onions, 1,500 spring onions, 21kg lettuce, 100 litres of pickle, and 175kg of [...]
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Yorkshire Cancer Research have managed to beat their own record for the most people bouncing on space hoppers simultaneously for one minute. Last year the organisation arranged the inaugural ‘Bounce for…’ event at the Don Valley Bowl in Sheffield and set the world record with 771 volunteers bouncing down a 100 metre racecourse. And that [...]
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Burnley will be the venue of Lancashire’s first ever Gay Pride festival. The two day extravaganza of moustachioed muscle men will centre around the Burnley Mechanics theatre on 9th and 10th September. The gay festival is a fund-raiser which will celebrate Burnley’s buzzing homosexual, lesbian, transsexual and transgender community. But you don’t have to be [...]
Continue reading …Following closely on the heels of the world’s biggest portion of chips, a pub in Yorkshire have set the world record for the largest serving of fish and chips. Staff at the Wensleydale Heifer pub in West Witton, North Yorkshire, spent yesterday afternoon preparing a record breaking feast of deep-fried goodness. Once the huge slab [...]
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That’s fries to all you Yanks. Southend on Sea’s Adventure Island has got its name in the Guinness Book of World Records yet again, this time for a massive portion of deep fried chips. Five fryers at the amusement park made history yesterday when they chipped and fried 448kg (987lb 10.73oz) of potatoes in four [...]
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Police are investigating what appears to be a tragic accident which saw an enthusiastic snake breeder killed by one of his own cobras. At around 14:00 this afternoon police were called to a property in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, where a man had died of a suspected heart attack after allegedly being bitten by a venomous snake. [...]
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A schoolboy from Scotland is believed to have set the world record in haggis speed eating. 17-year-old John Davis from Edinburgh was competing in the first ever International Haggis Championships which were held in the city today, in aid of the Help for Heroes charity. John, who says he has had no prior training in [...]
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A deadly oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) has allegedly been spotted about a mile off the coast of Cornwall. The notorious whitetip was once described by famous oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks. Despite it’s relatively small size at just 6-7ft long, the hostile whitetip is reported to have killed [...]
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