More random news than you can fit on a biscuit and dunk in your tea
This week the Bristol Dogs and Cats’ Home is celebrating its 125thbirthday, and everyone’s invited. This Saturday they are having an open day to raise funds and awareness about animal welfare. The day starts at 10:30 and runs until 16:00. Admission is £2 for adults and £1 for children and
Well, flush with the success of last week’s quiz we have come back with another picture quiz. Which movie title is the picture below supposed to represent? You can send your answer, along with what you think next week’s picture should be to quiz@newsnibbles.co.uk – good luck Nibblers. And
Today Newsnibbles catches up with Hetty, the first dog in the UK to be both a guide dog for the blind and a seizure alert dog. She has taken some time out from her busy schedule to tell us a little bit about her work and responsibilities. 1. Tell
Well, a severe lack of entries to our quizzes of late has given us the feeling that perhaps getting your picture published was perhaps not the incentive that we had hoped. Perhaps our readers are camera shy. So instead we have come up with this cunning plan. Below you will
Well, a headline about exploding reindeer in The Local grabbed our attention and we had to learn more. In a tragic case of reindeer mass suicide an entire herd of pregnant reindeer plummeted one thousand two hundred feet to their death over the edge of a cliff in northern Sweden.
A man was stopped on the border between Norway and Sweden this week by police, who discovered the largest haul of smuggled cowboy hats they had seized to date. The five hundred hat haul was accompanied by large amounts of cigarettes, tobacco and wine. The report in The Local was
Jarvis, a ten stone American Bulldog is recovering from a traumatic experience this week. Whilst rambling across several peaks in the Lake District with his owners when he slipped and fell into a lake. His owners were unable to pull him up because he was stuck behind some rocks, and
A recent scientific study has reported that dinosaur flatulence could be responsible for the global warming that marked the end of the ice age. Many different news articles have been written since the announcement, with a variety of different headlines, indeed, we can say with a degree of confidence that
Golf Balls Bombard Missouri! Well, a whole new meaning was given to the term “April Showers” last week when a hail storm with ice the size of golf balls bombarded a small Missouri town. The whole thing was caught on video as the massive balls of ice hit the floor
A new drinking game that has swept New Zealand in recent years is causing havoc in local parks. “Possum”, as the game has been dubbed by its participants involved the students sitting in trees, and drinking until the amount of alcohol causes them to crash to the ground in a
