A local business man has become Santa Claus himself, transforming his quad bike into a motorised sleigh to bring festive cheer to families in South Wales. Paul Gwilym, who owns a Wedding shop in Cardiff, will deliver presents to excited children on Christmas morning. Parents can give Paul their children’s presents and he will deliver them for a small fee. His sleigh is a mini quad bike that has been transformed with more than 15 metres of tinsel, 100 LED lights, plywood and lashings of paint. Paul said that the venture is more about bringing festive cheer and an experience for the children than making money, “When a child goes all happy, it’s like a ray of sunshine. It lights up any room, and when you see that, it just makes it all worthwhile.” He has deliveries booked all across South Wales, but will not be making the whole journey in his sleigh. His sleigh will have to be transported by van along with the stash of presents, while two “elves” will travel with him to help deliver the goods. Up until Christmas Day, Mr Gwilym will be driving around in his sleigh and raising money for charity.

A council in Norwich has painted what is believed to be Britain’s shortest ever set of double yellow lines. The lines, measuring just 17 inches are between a new permit parking area in the waiting zone in Stafford Street. Britain’s previous shortest yellow line is believed to have been an 18 inch long single line painted between parking bays in Highbury Crescent, north London in 2007.

Norwich city councillor Bert Bremner said, ‘They were put down to make things clearer for permit holders, but in hindsight perhaps they weren’t needed.’ Local residents were dismayed at the blatent waste of money with one local commenting, ‘I thought the country was skint – but it appears that people can still spend money on daft things like this.’ Mr Bremner commented that a developer had paid for the yellow line painting and it had cost the city council nothing. Locals are said to find the situation hilarious and are looking forward to seeing if a traffic warden comes down to monitor it.

This guy has found an innovative way to make the most of the cold weather and beat the rise in train fares! However, we do not suggest that you follow in his tracks.

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A freak storm in Coventry on Monday evening brought traffic to a standstill as over 100 apples fell from the sky. Motorists were baffled as the fruit suddenly fell, pelting their cars. One woman, who was travelling with her husband, said ‘The apples fell out of nowhere. They were small and green and hit the bonnet hard. Everyone had to stop their cars suddenly.’ 

There are many theories about where the apples came from. One witness thought that they were being thrown by as a prank by children. The Met Office said it was possible they had been scooped up by a tornado and dumped when the energy dissipated, but Keresley parish councillor Sandra Camwell had another explanation. “Strange things do happen in this part of the world. We’re in an area with a spooky history, where there have been witches for centuries, after all.”

Are you a cyclists that’s tired of being pushed around by other road users? Try this transforming bike and tower over them in a single movement, although make sure you wear a helmet!

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Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire has recruited some new workers to help out during the festive period. A pack of Newfoundland dogs will provide a delivery service with a difference by pulling Christmas trees to customers’ cars. The dogs are helping to raise money for charity through donations for each tree carried at the 3,400 hectare (8,600 acre) beauty spot in the North York Moors national park. Katie Thorn, the Forestry Commission’s recreation manager, said “Real trees use 10 times fewer materials to produce and five times less energy than artificial trees so it’s a good way of being kind to the planet. It’s a fantastic crowd-pleasing way to buy a tree and have the dogs tow it back to the car in a cart.” Be green this Christmas and get your real Christmas tree delivered by Newfoundland dogs.

Earlier this week hundreds Japanese ‘light trucks’ gathered to raise money for a Japanese children’s charity. The lorries are known as Dekotora or Decotora, an abbreviation for ‘decoration truck’. They feature so many light bulbs that extra generators have to be fitted under the lorry’s chassis to power them.The owners of these lorries spend months fitting each vehicle with about £100,000 of eye-catching bling. The decoration is not a random accumulation of lights however, as most lorries have a theme. Some trucks have protruding tusks made of lights, while others have large murals depicting monsters.  The only drawback to these magnificent beasts is that the lights can only be on for 20 minutes at a time before the generators overheat.

A motorcyclist takes his life into his own hands by performing a series of dangerous yet impressive stunts.

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