POLLY OMETER

Going down... Alice banned They say that everything comes back into style eventually – and right on cue, awful 90s stretch hair combs have been seen at New York Fashion Week. To jog your memory, they neither looked nice or worked well (unless you enjoyed migraines). Let’s hope they get no further down the fashion chain than only being seen on people who are getting paid to wear them.

Boa-con-trickster A sales clerk in Nigeria has been suspended after explaining the £70,000 that went missing on her watch was “swallowed by a snake”. One can only assume she’d heard about the legendary success of the homework-eating dog story and decided to up the ante slightly. A for effort, if nothing else.