IT MUST BE TRUE…

I read it in the tabloids

A Japanese company has found an unusual place to sell advertising: in young women’s armpits. The Wakino Ad Company ( waki is the Japanese for armpit) charges 10,000 yen (£69) per hour to place a rectangular full-colour ad under the arm of a model, who shows it off while grasping overhead handles on the Tokyo subway. Wakino also plans to stage a beauty contest to find the most attractive armpits in Japan. So far, it has snagged only one client: Seishin Biyo Clinic, which offers underarm hair removal.

A silversmith who has been sculpting a privet hedge outside his Sheffield home into the shape of a reclining woman for nearly 20 years is “disgusted” by drunk people pretending to have sex with it. Keith Tyssen has been woken up dozens of times in the night by rowdy passersby “interfering” with his creation, which he has named Gloria. “It’s not always a guy actually, sometimes it’s women who climb on her,” he said. “I don’t want them to behave like that with my privet lady.” Stuart Saunders, who is blind, was listening to music at his home in Exeter when he heard crashing sounds in the bathroom. He went in and found toiletries scattered on the floor – along with what seemed to be a roll of insulation. He was trying to pick it up when his support worker appeared and told him it was in fact a giant snake. They rang the police; staff from a nearby pet shop removed the 8ft python, which must have slithered in through his toilet. “It left the bathroom in an awful mess, with gunge on the wall,” said Saunders.