More random news than you can fit on a biscuit and dunk in your tea
Yes, we impressed ourselves a bit with that headline. Alliteration is the new pink. A New Zealand dog rescue charity has been teaching their residents to drive in an attempt to demonstrate how intelligent dogs actually are. The dog on the BBC Video given up by his owners because
That’s right Nibblers, we’re back with the quiz section – just in time for Christmas! So, here we go!!! On Friday you may remember that we published a story about unusual baby names… At the bottom we published a list of the more unusual ones you had heard, some of
What’s the first thing you ask when you meet a new baby? Could it be “awww, what’s their name?” Well, in some cases you may regret that question… The latest piece of news to come to our attention this week is the Twitter fans (we are presuming they are Twitter
Over four hundred Christmas trees destined for Ikea have been stolen from a farm on the Scottish border. The trees were worth an estimated £6,300 and were packaged and ready to start their new lives as commercial fare amongst the flat pack furniture and bargain hotdogs, when they were snatched
A Christmas light ceremony at a Mall in Reading almost came to an anti-climactic early end when the abseiling Santa caught his beard in the rope and was left hanging whilst the lights were turned on without him! Since Rudolph was no-where to be seen Santa was left hanging fifteen
In an interruption to our usual sarcastic news commentary a troubling news story crossed the newsdesk today that we felt the need to draw your attention to. Normal sarcastic service will resume tomorrow. A petition has been set up on the website AllOut.Org to try and appeal to the Ugandan
Well, the headlines are becoming marginally catchier, if still barely relevant… One of our regular Nibblers reported to us that they had read somewhere (this is how we source most of our information to be fair) that Professor Brian Cox was prevented from looking through a telescope at a newly
Whilst most news organisations have covered the presidential election with close attention, and can we just say congratulations on winning your second term President Obama (he must read Newsnibbles, right?) we have a much lesser known news story to cover. Hank, the cat won 6000 votes in the Virginia Senate
Post-mortem results for a group of birds who were discovered dead in a primary school playground in Cumbria this week have revealed some disturbing revelations. Not victims of fowl play, as was originally suspected, the birds were actually discovered to have high alcohol levels in their blood. Binge drinking on
…Hedgehogs. Although Badger jokes about eating hedgehogs, really she is a vegetarian badger, and would not buy a bag of crisps based on hedgehog content. That is not to say that other, more carnivorous Meles Meles would not base their purchase on hedgehog content, but despite the recent cull reprieve
