Eating 30 Chocolate Bars a Week

A Devon woman who eats 30 bars of chocolate a week has just celebrated her 100th birthday.
Peggy Griffiths, of Abbotsham, has scoffed an estimated 70,000 Cadbury's Dairy Milk bars in her time.
Her lifetime chocolate consumption has been estimated at an incredible four tons.
Peggy said: "When I was young I could buy a bar of chocolate with my pocket money. It only cost tuppence and tasted exactly like it does now."
Her daughter Eileen Osborne, said she ran a sweet shop in the 1930s but it went bust because she ate all the profits.
Eileen said: "When mom was a little girl, her mother told her that sweets were bad for you but chocolate was good.
"She absolutely loves it. She's a chocoholic and her diet agrees with her."
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Recycling Labrador

Recycling more than 20,000 plastic bottles in six years is good going for even the greenest resident.
But it's even more of an amazing feat for Tubby because he's a Labrador.
Twice daily he goes out for a walk and usually picks up at least six plastic bottles from wherever he can find them.
He then happily crushes them in his mouth and takes them back to his owner Sandra Gilmore, of Cadoc Road, West Pontnewydd, who recycles them in her black box.
She estimates that in Tubby's lifetime he could have collected up to 26,000 bottles.
"He has got a real nose for them and has done ever since he was a puppy," she said. "He'll dig them out from anywhere and go under bushes and even into water to fetch them.
"Tubby must be the keenest, greenest recycling canine around. I like to do by bit by recycling as much as I can - Tubby helps me to do an even better job."
Mrs Gilmore, 51, believes her family pet is attracted to bottles because of the noise they make when he crushes them in his mouth.
"He does a great job for the recycling crews as they come already crushed," she said. "However, it can be annoying sometimes as there is often something left in the bottle when he brings it over and it then goes everywhere."
To recognize Tubby's efforts, Torfaen Council's recycling mascot Dan Can the Super Recycler will present him with a bone.
Councillor John Cunningham, Executive Member for Operational Services, said: "It's no wonder we are the best performing recycling authority in South Wales with such enthusiastic pets as well as residents," he said.
"I'm glad he got a nose for bottles rather than bones and I hope he keeps up the good work."
Torfaen Council currently recycles 42 per cent of its waste.
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Hula Hoop Baby

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Doughnut on a Stick

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Spare (me the time) Wheel

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Baby Hedgy

Sooooo cute.

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Young lady plays violin while bouncing on a pogo stick

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Half-Shetland-half-New Forest pony

What has tiny legs, a long body and has been the subject of four emergency call-outs?
The answer is this oddly-shaped pony. The strange-looking creature caused a stir on the banks of the River Test after concerned animal lovers spotted it and thought it was sinking in the mud.
But the Daily Echo can today reveal that the pony – dubbed "Shorty" – was not in danger at all. It just has little legs.

Yesterday Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service’s animal rescue team was called out to the animal for the fourth time since it started grazing on the salt marshes at Redbridge, Southampton.
Animal rescue expert Anton Phillips was one of no less than 12 rescuers dispatched to help the animal before realising the pony was not in any distress.
He said: "This was the fourth time we have been called out by members of the public who have seen this pony on the salt marsh.
"It’s basically a cross between a Shetland pony and a New Forest pony and has definitely inherited features from both its mother and its father – it has short legs like a Shetland but a long body like a New Forest pony.
"From 200 yards away it does look like the pony is trapped in the mud, especially when it is stood next to other ponies.
"It is right for the public to call us if they are concerned and of course we will always respond but when we turned up to this job we knew straight away what we were dealing with – a pony with short legs!
"The pony is odd-shaped but it is fit and healthy and there is no reason to worry about it."
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Did You Know.......

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In the 1920s, according to a U.S. Postal Service history, three deliveries a day were common.

In 1949, the post office took measures to reduce residential deliveries to twice a day, and in the 1950s residential delivery in most areas went to once a day.

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Woman and Her Best Friend

Devoted dog Chushla saves owner from diabetic attack three times a week.

Devoted dog Chushla saves her owner's life every week - by smelling the onset of a diabetic attack.
The Bedlington-whippet cross detects a scent when Elizabeth Wilkinson's blood sugar levels drop dangerously low - up to three times a week - and nibbles her hand to alert her.
Elizabeth, 54, a type one diabetic for over 40 years, has just one of six registered hypoalert dogs in Britain which can smell a hypoglycemia attack.
The mother-of-three, who could fall into a coma and die unless she gets carbohydrates, first realised her pet could detect it when she was a puppy.
Elizabeth, from Downham Market, Norfolk, said: "I had her for just a few weeks when she started nibbling my neck.
"I used to be scared to go out after I collapsed in a coma while shopping in Cambridge. Now Chushla means the world to me. She is my little life-saver."