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Here we go – year 5 of the April Fool’s Round-Up

Links are just in the order I found them, and I’ve put some of my favourites in bold if you only have a few minutes!

• Ben & Jerry’s on tap in pubs nationwide
• Google Maps: Pokemon Challenge
• NotOnTheHighStreet selling art painted by animals
• Stylfile launches a one direction only nailfile
• Daily Mail: Secret government papers reveal the Union Flag without the blue
• Daily Mirror: Man Utd’s new away kit is Man City blue
• The Guardian: Scotland to drive on the right
• Youthwork and Childrenswork magazines to merge
• The tricky thing with Firebox is working out what’s a fool and what’s not – for example, the Sushi Bazooka is apparently real?! But here are the ones that are real fools this year:
  • Cranston Pickle
  • Lionel Richie Chocolate Head
  • iRon – a wifi iron
  • Trim Jong-Un
  • Katie Hopkins Talking Head
  • Grow your own chicken
  • Rhino shield for windows
• The Telegraph: Alexander Salmond to appear on Scottish currency
• Daily Express: 3000 year old teddy bear found in Tutankhamun’s tomb
• ThinkGeek also have a new load of products
  • Beard Machine
  • Nerf Nuke
  • Rosetta Stone – Klingon
  • Flux Capacitor car charger
  • Unicorn drinking horn
  • Tactical Necktie with Laser Pointer
  • Star Trek flying disc
• The Metro: Ant & Dec split – I’m really not sure this is funny, I’m kind of upset even though it’s not real!
• Daybreak: chicken laying square eggs
• Vegemite launch an energy drink
• The Sun: Fracking to begin in the grounds of Buckingham Palace
• BT: Corrie set struck by sinkhole
• Giraffe launch new giraffe staff uniform
• Groupon New Zealand: Meet the Royals
• Bdaily: Putin buys stake in the Royal Mail
• GMail launch the Shelfie
• The Independent: David Moyes to have dugout chair fitted with direct line to Alex Ferguson
• TFL cancel all tubes and suggest jetpacks instead
• Kings College Choir to only have adult members, and so to use helium to hit the high notes instead
• Technet: Microsoft launch SmartClippy
• Glow in the dark Skittles
• Bread that won’t fall butter side down from Sainsburys
• KFC Australia mouth expander
• Kim Jong-un insists on One Direction getting haircuts if they wish to enter North Korea
• KitKat The Lazy Bar – prebroken for you
• Tetleys: Biscuit flavoured tea
• Marmite doughnuts… doughmites
• The Times: German Duke would be King of Scotland
• Huffington Post: Piers Morgan recruited as Lib Dem media advisor for 2015 election
• The Independent: UN draws up Peace Keeping plans in case of Scotland “Yes” vote
• Virgin Trains rename Wolverhampton Station to Wolverine
• Daily Record: Scottish bakery uses drones for deliveries
• Amazon Kindle Paperscent case
• Domino’s edible pizza box
• Daily Mirror: Six legged lambs to increase food yield
• Square Toblerone
• Warburtons bread shapes skyscraper London offices
• Specsavers: Mona Lisa wore contact lenses
• Samsung Fli-fly. Internet Wifi routers to be attached to pigeons
• Mini powered by tea
• Hotels.com – all rooms 95% off as long as you clean them yourselves etc
• Royal Albert Hall to have retractable roof
• Shark spotted in canal in Birmingham
• Tesco Cudl: The first tablet for two
• Banana dessert Subway
• Volkswagen and RSPCA team up to teach rescue dogs to drive
• The Independent: Scientists discover eighth colour of the rainbow
• Metro: Government to ban selfies
• BMW launch cot that simulates being driven around
• National Trust announces scone scented perfume

In related news, I really hoped this was an April Fool but it seems not….
Nick Griffin says foodbanks are for indigenous Brits only
as the tweet was done in march