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A crazed heifer that was on loose has now been caught meaning the people of Darlington can now sleep easy in their beds. The cow had escaped on Thursday. It was finally found in a field with other cows.... funny that.

A US town is attempting to break the record for the largest ketchup packet. The packet is 8 foot tall and four foot wide and should hold around 1,500 pounds of ketchup. The ketchup has been donated by Heinz and people will pay a bottle of ketchup for $1 which will then be poured into the packet. All the proceeds will go to charity.

This was the moment the world’s tallest horse and the world’s smallest horse were brought together. Thumbelina stands only 17 inches tall whilst radar is an amazing 6ft 7 inches tall.

A man from Sussex hopes to break a world record by reaching speeds of more than 100mph on a jet powered skateboard. Joel King is currently the reigning UK Street Luge champion and hopes his modified board will be quick enough to beat the record.

If you are sick of sitting in traffic jams then you may be interesting in this cool flying car. Invented by a man in Canada it can travel at 50mph, ten feet above the ground. Currently only the prototype has been made but the vehicle could soon be on sale with a £44,000 price tag. It seems a lot but then it is a flying car.

A heifer is on the loose in Darlington after it escaped from a cattle market. The cow has been described as extremely dangerous and police have warned it will attack anyone it sees. The public have been told be vigilant and not to approach it under any circumstances.

Residents in Hampton have apparently been warned to keep their toilet lids closed. This is because the recent heavy rain has washed Chinese mitten crabs out of their burrows and into peoples gardens. The crabs whilst not dangerous could crawl up the U-bend of a toilet.

Bournemouth Council has banned its leisure centres from using armbands and rubber rings. Apparently blowing up inflatable’s by mouth spreads germs and is deemed too unsafe. So apparently it’s now more acceptable for someone to drown because they can't use a rubber ring than risk catching germs.

Dogissimo is a new ice cream for dogs. It is available in rice, vanilla-rice and soy flavours and has recently gone on sale in Vienna. Simona Leonardini who makes the ice cream tested the recipes on her own dogs until she perfected one that they all liked.

A man in Grimsby was attacked by a parrot as he entered a room in the bed and breakfast, he was staying at. The parrots owner could not be traced so Mr Kernohan decided to take the parrot home to Crawley with him.

I came across these great Simpsons quotes. Among some of the good ones are “Your questions have become more redundant and annoying than the last three “Highlander movies” from Comic Book Guy and “I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me, Superman” from Homer.

Even the happiest of married couples have their arguments; however, most couples manage to get through the wedding day without any fights. One couple started their marriage with a fight in a hotel room, on their wedding day which led to the groom being hit with a stiletto heel and being treated for a head wound. The bride still in her wedding dress was detained by police. The couple who are still together had to pay £500 for the damaged they caused to the hotel room during the fight. Wedded Bliss.

There are some odd people about. One man in New York attacked a peacock because he claimed it was a vampire. The unfortunate peacock had wandered into a Burger King parking lot where people were feeding him. The crazed man then started to kick the creature telling people he was killing a vampire.

A golfer in Nevada managed to start a grass fire when he tried to get his ball out of the rough. When he knocked his ball into the dry grass and tried to hit it back onto the fairway, the golfer managed to hit something that created a spark and the dried grass set on fire. The fire burnt 20 acres of grass before it was put out by 50 firefighters. Thats what I call a bad at golf.

They have an unusal rat problem at the police department in India. Rats have been gnawing through beer cans and the caps of whisky bottles to get to the alcohol inside. The police department would usually sell the alcohol which is seized from illegal sellers in order to raise money, but due to their current rat problem are currently unable to do this. Rats under the influence have also been attacking people near the police buildings.