POLICE said a 14-year-old Utah boy was trying to cover up for falling and ripping his new trousers when he reported a bullet grazed him.

There's some idiot on the pitch, they think it's all over...it is now!

When you thought that football couldn't get any more bizarre check out the man in black who sends off the Dorchester Town player/manager for tackling a streaker.

THREE bungling raiders were caught when their bid to tow a cash machine to a getaway car ended in farce when the dispenser became jammed in a doorway.

A PENSIONER whose sandwiches poisoned 47 police officers has been given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to obey a one-month night-time curfew.

A new material that could be used to create a real-life Harry Potter-style "invisibility cloak" has been designed by British scientists.
The material, called "Metaflex" may in future provide a way of manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light.

APOLOGIES for the delay - I'd like to say it's been unavoidable but it's really due to summer indolence.

But now we're back - try this one on for size....

A UNIVERSITY lecturer has revealed how he helped show that gamblers were being fleeced on a seaside hoopla stall in Blackpool.

A dog owner too lazy to walk his pet has lost his driving licence after getting caught walking the animal while driving his car.

An Arabic country's ambassador to Dubai has had his marriage contract annulled after discovering the bride was cross-eyed and had facial hair.

Five crates of Scotch whisky buried under Antarctic ice for more than 100 years have been recovered by a heritage team restoring explorer Ernest Shackleton's hut.