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Friday 2 December 2022
We spoke to some residents of the town where it’s 25 December every day of the year.
The best presents are left at the bottom of the stocking.
“Where people throw ducks at balloons, and nothing is the way it seems.”
A politician into bondage, an over-eager suitor and a sock-eating dog – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
IVF penguins, foam hotdogs and a human skull – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
Chicken, computer coders and stripping – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
Cats with many lives and priests with recording contracts – it’s all the week’d weirdest news.
Waitresses with guns, monster members and headbangers – it’s the week’s weirdest news.
Cyclist-eating geese, Krusty Krabs and MENSA – it’s the week’s weirdest news.
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, among others, have voiced opposition to the notion.
How did these two teams both want to score own goals?
Bras, dentures and cocaine cookies – it’s the week’s weirdest news.
Selfie surgery, sex dolls and gorillas on the loose – it’s the week’s wildest and wackiest news, rounded up just for you.
No beef for the Mexican World Cup team –find out why plus all the weirdest stories you need to hear.
Baptising aliens, Never Been Kissed and cash in a couch – it’s all the weirdest stories you need to hear.
Loyal dogs, a “serial pooper” and hot dogs – it’s all the weirdest stories you need to hear.
A crow is smarter than your kid, the French are taking over the world and doggie dialtones – it’s all the bizarre news stories you need to know about.
Scientists are THIS CLOSE to cloning a woolly mammoth – it’s all the bizarre news stories you need to know about.
Biros, cosy penguins and a 30,000-year-old virus brought to life – it’s all the bizarre news stories you need to know about.
Cows love slow jams, drug-smuggling with Kinder Eggs and Ragnarok – it’s all the MAD stuff you might have missed.
Gym selfies banned, a money shredding alarm clock and a terrible heroin smuggler – it’s all the MAD stuff you might have missed.
Dog dirt detectives, high-cost hamburgers and penguins on pills – it’s all the MAD stuff you might have missed.
A schoolgirl and a bullet, some peanut butter and a jellyfish, and a gay cat – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
Goodfellas Part II happens in real life, mathematicians can’t prove planes fly and a rat ship cometh – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
– the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
Lamb meat with a side of dirty pond water, get a beard to advance your career and a Ferris wheel – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
A pea-based divorce, 10,000 smartphones when all you need is a knife and a super-human thief – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
Glow in the dark piglets, a pigeon arsonist and a very rude briefcase – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
The worst job applicant ever, a pavlova bandit and a dog who loves knickers – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
An Instagram account leads to 142 felony charges, the Queen’s nuts, and a penis-biting snake – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
£4m in a landfill, a bunker full of cannabis and meteorites – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
An election won on a coin toss, crashing cows and middle fingers – the bizarre news stories you might have missed.
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When you’ve got Jackie Chan, Phil Collins and Nicole Kidman around anything can happen.
Selfies and celebrity oddness at their very best.
The Welsh Alliance League Division 2 leaders have attracted interest from abroad.
AS WE COME to the end of 2022, festivals are starting to announce their line-ups for 2023.
Glastonbury revealed this morning that Elton John will headline at Worthy Farm in June, while earlier this week All Together Now confirmed Iggy Pop and the Sugababes will be in Waterford in August.
Plenty more festivals will be releasing their line-ups in the coming weeks and months.
Are you planning to attend any next year?
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Employers will soon be required to pay their staff when too sick to work.
Polina Bashkina speaks to older Ukrainian people left to cope on the front lines of this war.
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