Found in Argents Mead in 2009 and the end of the Crescent...

cil said: “This is the first we have heard about the directive. We have always been proud of the design which is based on the moon’s shape - although not when it is a full moon or total eclipse of course.

“But we have no choice and will have to carry out the work over the next 12 months. Taxes will have to rise to pay for it.

“Apparently we can buy a European conversion kit to try and straighten off the curved parts of the design. This will cost around £5 million with the other £5 million set aside for the work to be carried out.

“It is hoped the changes can be completed by early April next year.”

And we even had comments from the European spokesperson called Lirpa Sloof...which did not really fool anyone.

And back in 2009, we reported that the crown for Kind Richard III had been found under a hedge in Argents Mead and that historians were now viewing the park as the real site of the Battle of Bosworth.

We even had a picture of a crown to prove it was true as we said the battle did not take place at the battlefield site!

Hang on a minute...part of the story turned out to be true!

The crown actually cost £1 from Wilkos in the Britannia Centre.

If we had come up with an April Fools to suggest the “missing” body of Richard III would be found under a car park, more specifically under a space with a large R above it, then nobody would have been fooled by that one.

And we avoided suggesting that Leicester City would have won the Premiership title because that was even less likely.

We have also done a few others stories over the years including the proposal to merge Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council with Nuneaton and Bedworth and move the HQ to Market Bosworth which is half way between the two. 1. Spaghetti harvest

Back in 1957, the BBC broadcast a film on Panorama showing Swiss farmers picking freshly grown spaghetti. They called it the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest and the BBC was flooded with requests about the plant. Doh. 2. Left-handed burger Burger King tricked customers with a full-page advert in USA Today in 1998. The ad plugged its ‘left-handed Whopper’. The burger had all the condiments and rotated 180 degrees for left-handed diners. It was a trick and Burger King broke the news with the line: ‘Everyone knows that it takes two hands to hold a Whopper!’ 3. Fools’ Day Parade Every year since 1986 press releases for the New York City April Fools’ Day Parade have been issued. It doesn’t exsist. 4. Flying penguins The BBC at it again. In 2008 they showed a video clip of penguins flying claiming they were off to tropical rainforests in South American to escape the harsh Antarctic weather. Penguins, obviously, don’t fly. 5. Doggy high chair Ikea produced and released a high chair for dogs in 2011. Enough said. 6. Instant Colour TV Sweden’s most famous prank back when the main TV was black and white. The station said a technical expert would be appearing to explain to people how to make their TVs colour. He went into detail saying a fine mesh screen on the TV would do the trick - nylon stockings in particular. Thousands fell for the hoax, following his instructions to the letter. 7. Taco Liberty Bell Taco Bell announced it was going to help national debt and buy the Liberty Bell in 1996. it added it was going to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. The news was in six major newspapers. Thousands wrote in worried about what was going to happen. At midday the company confessed and donated $50k to the upkeep on the bell. 8. Tesco’s whistling carrots Tesco put an advertisement in a national newspaper in 2002 announcing it had created a GM ‘whistling carrot’. It explained how they had airholes in them and when cooked they would whistle. Some did actually fall for the news. 9. Digital Big Ben In 1980 the BBC reported that Big Ben, in order to keep up with the times, was going to be given a digital readout.

The announcement shocked listeners, who protested at the change.