Paul Majendie

London - Slimmers can fight the flab with special new fat-absorbing footwear - it drips into their Fatsox.

Armchair farmers have now installed paging devices for their cows at milking times - called the Call Operated Wireless Pet and Animal Terminal (Cowpat).

Yes, it's that time again.

Britain's newspapers, ever eager to catch out their unwary readers, have gone into April Fool's Day mode.

But The Times, once the revered mouthpiece of the British establishment, was the first to admit that news stories are now so bizarre that it is becoming impossible to now differentiate between hoax and hard reality.

"It is getting harder to tell the difference between April Fool's and ordinary news stories," it said.
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