Bizarre

Helen Cox bought son Alfie the £16.99 fancy dress costume on Amazon for his school nativit play and he was delighted it came with a free blow up flock.

James Ellinsworth, 34, has only been selling the 1,000-calorie feast for three days but it has already proved so popular that he sold out of turkey legs.

A limp-looking conifer appeared in the town of Tyldesley in Greater Manchester this week adorned with five baubles and an unremarkable star on the top.

Sabine Rouas, 43, met Aston the bull five years ago when she started helping out at a nearby cow farm.

Tom Jones, 83, and wife Pauline, 82, insist that their daily visits to the fast-food chain have helped them remained slim and fit.

Pete West, 47, was selling the Royal British Legion's decorative poppies to passers-by as the heavens opened.

Sam Storey was forced to walk home amid the downpour after being told he was not allowed to travel on the 519 service to school - even though he had his bus pass inside a see-through lanyard.

Jamie Shean was watching television in his rented flat with his friend Rob Jarvis when they heard an ''explosion'' in his bedroom.

Sarah Hood, 53, has suffered with "intense burning pain" and endured three hospital stays after she believes she was bitten by a false widow spider in November last year.

Nicola Nicholas captured the extraordinary formation as she harvested Chardonnay grapes for her local vineyard.

John Behm, 62, was competing in an open-air painting event in Norwich, Norfolk yesterday evening (tue) when the disaster struck.

Glennys and Geoff Dalby got home to smashed tiles, broken roof timbers and shattered garden storage - with the remains of the frozen missile melting in the 22 degree heat.

Cory Cannon, 41, was driving between jobs at work when he spotted what he thought was a plastic toy in the road.

The suburban street is one long road split into two ends - where the wealthy Wentworth Road meets the more down at heel Aldrich Road.

The Aussie trio performed raunchy dance moves to Nelly's Hot In Herre dressed as firemen and danced in camo to Soulja Boy's Crank That.

Susan Bird, 67, says her life has been made hell after her next-door neighbour left behind a shell of a house.

Alvina Shiel, 68, nicknamed the 'Galloping Granny' was reunited with the 18-year-old horse, who she had seen every day for two years.

The supermarket got into the festive spirit four months early by installing the towering 25ft spruce in the car park of its store in Cambridge.

Five-week-old Pua, named after a pig in Disney film Moana, has to be bottle fed every two hours as he cannot suckle.

There's been a baby boom at the Erlanger Police Department in Kentucky, US - after EIGHT cops welcomed newborns in just 11 months.