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Prince Harry always at the pub
2007-10-01 20:55:00
A PUB has put royal raver Prince Harry on its sign to help pull in punters.Sir Harry?s in Edgbaston, Birmingham, ordered the sign bearing an armour-clad Harry in a bid to cash in on the young Army officer?s hard-drinking reputation.The fun-loving Prince, 23, is famed for going on benders and the pub?s landlord urged him to pop in for a pint.He said: ?Most folk find it funny, and I?m sure Harry wouldn?t mind.?But Harry is not the only royal who likes a beer or three. Brother William, 25, left the K-Bar in London?s Fulham Road looking severely the worse for wear at around 4am on Saturday.Credit: Chris Parsons / quirkynews.co.uk / Quirky News
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Randy tortoise stolen to order
2007-10-01 17:51:00
A RANDY tortoise who makes love to garden sprinklers has gone missing from his home after being stolen by thieves.Humphrey the tortoise, aged 60, was poached during the night from the back garden of his owners' house in Netherton, West Midlands, almost two weeks ago.Now his retired 60-year-old owner has been left devastated and wants to get her favourite horny pet back.Humprey's owner, who has had him for 40 years but did not want to be identified, said: "We're worried he'll end up at the wrong home where people don't know how to look after him."He always gets over-friendly with the sprinkler. When the weather gets hot he goes berserk, heads straight for his favourite toy and starts to make love to it."We've tried to introduce him to toy tortoises before, but he's just not interested."If he can't mate with the garden sprinkler, he just doesn't want to know."He's never had a girlfriend or a mate either - the sprinkler is the only partner for him."West Midlands Police said t...
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Its a stretch to get 7 people in a 2CV
2007-09-24 20:57:00
A CAR crazy motor fanatic has converted his crusty old Citroen 2CV into a stretch LIMOUSINE - to make room for his seven-strong family.Petrol head Anthony Willsmer had to transport his family of seven in two cars, before welding two Citroen 2CVs together to make a super-spacious 14ft Citroen limo.Anthony, 43, from Oswestry, Shropshire, stumbled on the idea after joking to a pal they should convert his old Citroen into a limousine.Decorator Anthony then spent a YEAR welding his 18-year-old 2CV to another unused model to make his dream car.He said: ?It has taken about 12 months on and off to complete.?The Citroen 2CV was my first car when I was 17 so I have had them ever since.?I took my last 2CV and cut it in half, which was quite sad to see.??We then added parts from a scrapped 2CV to fit in the middle and put a new engine in and generally strengthened up all the suspension. The limo also has a new chassis, chrome bumpers and alloy wheels.?It?s funny how people stop and have a look ...
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Pub team become Champions League stars
2007-09-22 22:33:00
WITH the likes of Kaka, Ronaldinho and Rooney their team sheet reads like a Champions League dream team. But the players of lowly Lynam Athletic actually play in the Birmingham Coronation League Alliance Division 3, and last season finished bottom. The team needed an inspirational way to strike fear into their opposition - so they ALL officially changed their names by deed poll to professional footballers for the start of this season. With Peter Cech in goal and a back four of Paulo Maldini, Cafu, John Terry and Fabio Cannavaro - their defence sounds like a force to be reckoned with. And the appetising prospects of a midfield of Steven Gerrard, Ronaldinho, Kaka and Christiano Ronaldo would have any manager licking his lips.Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy make up the front line but unfortunately, all are merely a bunch of IT workers from the West Midlands.And now the squad of 17 players - who have even had their new names printed on their shirts - are looking a better prospect ...
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Space boffins test rollercoasters
2007-09-20 12:52:00
A TOP UK theme park has recruited a team of space boffins to help them discover what makes rollercoasters scary. Alton Towers have joined forces with an ex military aero engineer to create a 'Thrill Lab', where they will discover how to push thrillseekers to the limit on next generation rollercoasters.The experiment will analyse 72 adrenaline junkies on Alton Towers' famous Oblivion vertical drop rollercoaster.Ex military aeronautical engineer Brendan Walker will be helped by fellow space science experts from Nottingham University in creating the groundbreaking experiment, which will last three days.Riders will have 'Thrill Profiling' sessions where they are psychologically tested, have their  facial expressions filmed, and even their heart rates measured to show stress and G-Force experienced.The results from the tests will give 'a groundbreaking insight into the essence of thrill simulation'.Brendan Walker said: "Oblivion's success as one of the world's most exciting roll...
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Crabzilla
2007-09-19 12:07:00
YOU'VE seen Lobzilla, now meet Crabzilla.The largest edible crab ever caught off the UK, was purchased by a seafood lover who needed a super-sized wok to cook the monster crustacean.Hugh Clench, 58, picked up the beast, named Neptune, when shopping at Shoreham Harbour, West Sussex, last week. Neptune measures 270mm in diameter and weighs a whopping 4kg.Hugh said: "When I saw this in the tank at the local fishmongers I knew it was special - at least twice as big as anything I'd seen before."After researching it on the web it would seem it is one of the largest ever recorded. "There is one in the Paris Museum of Natural History with a carapace 285 mm across which is the largest one on record.? "Neptune is almost as big so we believe it is the largest crab ever caught in UK waters."The Cancer pagurus, or edible crab is only expected to live for 20 years and reach a weight of 3kg.They grow very slowly with males typically reaching a width of 150 mm. Records state that only in exceptio...
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The literary classic of Jeremy Clarkson
2007-09-18 22:02:00
PETROL-HEAD Jeremy Clarkson has become a indisputable literary genius after his book ?The World According to Clarkson? has been reissued with a classic Penguin jacket.It puts him on a par with Ernest Hemingway and Bernard Shaw who were some of the first writers to be immortalized with the famous three band cover when the books were introduced in 1935.Clarkson is one of 36 authors published as part of Penguin?s Celebrations range along with, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Zadie Smith?s White Teeth.The first Penguin paperbacks were a mix of biography, crime writing and novels with genres were indicated by the colour of the band on the cover, they cost just sixpence, the same price as a packet of cigarettes.In The World According to Clarkson the Top Gear front-man talks about everything form cricket and PlayStations, to astronomy, David Beckham, 70's rock, the demise of Concorde, the burden of an Eton education and the s...
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