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Are these the worst supermarket substitutions ever?Spring onions instead of spring flowers, Monster Munch instead of an ab wheel – how do packers get it so spectacularly wrong?When supermarket substitutions miss the mark, there is often some fragment of the right item caught up in the wrong one, as when Kim Petchy ordered lemon juice and Asda sent her a lemon cake, or Theo Jordan wanted guacamole but Tesco delivered avocados.Sometimes, the packer focuses on the wrong word of the original item. Ben Elliot Lee ordered petits pois for a shepherd’s pie and got a 12-pack of Petits Filous. Instead of a bunch of spring flowers, Suzanne Bradish got a bunch of spring onions.
How hedgehogs became the latest victim of the obesity crisisKeen to lure the endangered creatures into gardens, some people are overfeeding them with competitive menus – and doing more harm than good
Fast-flying pigeon triggers speed camera after breaking legal limitA pigeon in Germany has been flashed by a speed camera after it was caught flying faster than the legal limit for the road.The criminally rapid avian was snapped flapping along a residential street in Bocholt, western Germany, when it was clocked at 45kmh (28mph) in a 30kmh zone.A mobile camera unit was automatically triggered by the bird as it flew past.
Inside ‘British version of Tutankhamun’s tomb’ discovered between a pub and an AldiArchaeologists have recreated in painstaking detail what they called the UK’s answer to Tutankhamun’s tomb – a royal burial site dating back to Anglo-Saxon times discovered by the side of a road in Essex.They believe the burial chamber, unearthed near a pub and an Aldi supermarket, may have held the remains of Seaxa, brother of King Saebert.Scientists have spent 15 years excavating the site in Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea. They have pieced together artefacts, some of which are 1,400 years old, to build a new picture of how the chamber looked when it was first created.Work began on the site in 2003, and among the items discovered were a painted box, drinking horns and a flagon originating from the Byzantine empire, as well as gold foil crosses, suggesting the dead male had converted to Christianity.The box is the only surviving example of painted Anglo-Saxon woodwork in Britain.
Sheep registered as pupils at French school in desperate bid to stop classes from closureFifteen sheep have been enrolled at a French primary school after parents feared that some classes could close due to lack of pupils. Jules-Ferry in Crets en Belledonne, a village of fewer than 4,000 people at the foot of the French Alps, was told one of its 11 classes would be closed after student numbers fell from 266 to 261.More than a dozen sheep were “registered” at the school in a bid to boost pupil numbers.
Bournemouth Airport will launch flights to ZakynthosSUNSEEKERS will get even more choice from Bournemouth Airport next year when flights to Zakynthos begin.This week,TUI UK announced weekly flights to the Greek island will start on May 3 2020.
Australian $50 note typo: spelling mistake printed 46 million times 46 million of Australia’s new $50 notes have been printed with a typo, the Reserve Bank has confirmed.
Dead man elected mayor of Texas cityA city in the US state of Texas has elected a dead man to be its new mayor.
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