QUIRKY WORLD ... Here comes the bride all dressed in... toilet paper?
The gowns were showcased at the finale of the annual Cheap Chic Weddings Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest in New York. Ten designers, vying for a $10,000 (€8,800) prize, painstakingly made the dresses from the most basic materials.
The rules were simple, according to contest co-creator Laura Gawne.
“They have to use Charmin toilet paper, any kind of tape, any kind of glue and they can use needle and thread,” she said.
“No closures, no Velcro, nothing. No attachment of fabric, nothing,” said her co-creator, Susan Bain.
Bain and Gawne began the competition to promote their wedding site.
Sixty-six surfers have set a world record for most people riding a board at once. Surf champions and ‘local heroes’ were among those who climbed on a custom-built, 13m-long board off Huntington Beach, California.
The Orange County Register reported that the surfers rode a wave for 12 seconds, breaking the previous record, set in Queensland, Australia, a decade ago, when 47 surfers rode a wave for 10 seconds.
5,000 spectators crowded the sand and the Huntington Beach pier to watch the attempt. Guinness World Record adjudicator Michael Empric, said a separate record, to determine whether the 590kg board is the world’s largest, will take a few days.
Former Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding was battered with a 434kph blast of wind in the world’s first high-speed selfie photo booth.
The 33-year-old was the first person in the UK to try the machine, which launches in Manchester today.
It follows reports that Harding has secured a second contract with Coronation Street, following her four-episode stint on the soap.
She said: “When I was asked to take part in the high-speed selfie, I have to confess that I was a little nervous.
“But once I’d had a go, it was so much fun — I was literally blown away. I look like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards. It was good fun, though.”
The selfie booth was created by Virgin Media to mark the roll-out today of its £3bn (€4.2bn) fibre-broadband network expansion.
An Austrian construction worker knew he had struck metal with the shovel of his excavator. But it took police to determine what he had unearthed —nearly 400 live Second World War grenades.
The discovery in the Tyrolean city of Innsbruck led to the evacuation of apartments closest to the find, while experts defused some of the ordnance and blew up the rest. No one was injured.
Police believe the grenades were part of an underground ammunition depot.
Jeremy Corbyn may not be the bookies’ favourite to succeed Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour party but he has already made British political history — by virtue of his beard.
Corbyn is the first person with a beard to stand in a contest for the Labour leadership.
Were he to win, he would be only the second bearded person to lead his party.
The first was Keir Hardie, who led Labour from 1906-08 but who was not elected to the post.
There have been other Labour leaders with facial hair but none has boasted a full beard of the kind worn by Mr Corbyn and Mr Hardie.
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