1. In 2000, a German traffic policeman interrupted Chancellor Gerhard Schroder in the middle of a meal at a posh restaurant in Berlin to ask him to move his armoured car, which was parked illegally. (What, no chauffeur?)

2. Workers at an Australian fish factory discovered a human head inside the belly of a cod. The search for a local fisherman who had fallen overboard was called off. (How big was this cod?)

3. Malcolm Storey from Southampton went out for a drink at his local - despite the fact he'd broken his back, pelvis, arm and nose. His mates wheeled his bed past security men and into the pub.