Golf club lets men show off their legs!
A golf club in one of England's most traditional seaside towns is allowing men to show off their legs for the first time in 113 years.
Committee members at Frinton Golf Club, in Frinton, Essex, have relaxed a rule which said men had to wear knee-length socks with shorts.
Now men can make their way around the club's two courses dressed in shorts and short socks.
NO BLACK SHEEP
A cheeky ram is certainly not the black sheep of the family after he made himself at home in his rescuer's house.
The 22-stone sheep, which goes by the name Nick Boing, was rescued by David Palmer as a new-born lamb three years ago.
But despite Mr Palmer trying to reintroduce Nick to farm-life, the sheep preferred his home comforts in the Rhiwbina area of Cardiff, watching TV and trips in the car.
TELLING PORKIES
Breakdown patroller Steve Milner thought his controllers were telling porkies when they rang to direct him to a pig the size of car stranded on a country road.
But the AA man could not stop laughing when he arrived to find the casualty was a 6ft long, 90lb blue piggy bank which had had a mishap as it was being pulled along by two men on a tandem bike.
Steve Hunt, 46, and Gordon McKirdy, 33, were heading from Glasgow to London in a challenge to raise cash for Cancer Research UK when a joint holding the pig on the trailer snapped between Longhorsley and Morpeth, in Northumberland.
HIGH PRICE OF PETROL
A Florida man has won 50 worth of petrol by agreeing to name his unborn son after a pair of radio DJs.
David Partin of Orlando's son will be called Dixon and Willoughby Partin after he offered the right to name his unborn son to a local radio station that offered the free petrol to the listener with the most interesting item to trade. Hosts Richard Dixon and J Willoughby took Partin's deal.
Mr Partin's girlfriend, Samantha Bailey, said at least he will have an interesting story about how he got his name.
CAT IN THE BOX
A cat that climbed unnoticed into an open box was shipped nearly 500 miles Germany, but emerged from the journey unscathed.
One-year-old Janosch's journey began when he snuck unnoticed into a neighbour's apartment and crawled into the open box containing a child's safety seat the woman was about to ship from Rottach-Egern in Bavaria and it was only when the parcel arrived at its destination in the town of Dorsten, in the Ruhr Valley, that the cat was freed
The first Janosch's owner, Gitti Rauch, know of its journey was when her neighbour called to explain the unexpected delivery.
POLE DANCING GOES UNDERGROUND
Commuters in Peru's capital Santiago had their journeys to work improved by a pole dancer who took her act onto a pole inside a underground train.
Security guards swopped a few days after Monserrat Morilles, 26, started dancing and stripping in front of surprised and then enthralled commuters.
Ms Morilles said: "I think it's amazing that they are using all this security against someone who never hurt anyone when there are plenty of people who are attacked in the metro."
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