The hunt is on for the remains of the Anglo Saxon king Saint Edmund.

According to the Daily Mirror, the 9th century ruler was believed to have been killed by Viking raiders after refusing to denounce his Christianity, and his remains were kept in a shrine, but were later lost during Henry VIII's reign and the desecration of the Benedictine Abbey.

There was some mystery over where his body was buried but now historians believe that his remains are in a small graveyard for monks - now covered by two tennis courts.

THE Daily Mail introduced us to Balthazar, a seven foot Great Dane which at 15st 6lbs could be Britain's heaviest dog.

Owner Vinnie Monte-Irvin, from Nottingham, said: “He is a big dog and we were told from when he was a lot smaller that he was always quite heavy for his age.

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“We took him to the vets as he has a poorly leg and he needed to be weighed to see how much medication he can take. After he was weighed everyone at the surgery was gobsmacked.”

IT seems that more and more Brits are receiving parking fines, says The Sun.

Figures released by the RAC Foundation show that the number of motorists handed parking fines by private companies have soared by more than 25 per cent over the past 12 months.

The data suggests a parking ticket is issued every seven seconds in Britain.

RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said: “These numbers are eye-watering.”

HOW about this for kicking a football a long distance....a Daily Mail article says a ball booted out of a ground in Aberdeen, Scotland ended up 1,100 miles away in Norway!

The ball was kicked over a 25ft fence at Banks o' Dee Football Club's riverside ground by an under-19s team player, landed in the River Dee, floated into the North Sea and was then carried all the way across to the Norwegian island of Vanna.

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Norwegian Johnny Mikalsen then found it and informed the club after he was able to make out its name written on the ball.

Banks o' Dee club secretary Tom Ewan said balls are regularly lost in the river but this was the first time they had ever been found.

IT seems that we Brits have some of the biggest baby bawlers.

The Daily Mirror reports that according to a study carried out at Warwick University, along with infants in Canada, Italy and Netherlands, British babies out-cry all other countries while toddlers in Denmark, Germany and Japan have the fewest tears and tantrums.  

The university says it has formulated the first universal chart for normal amounts of crying in the first three months - babies wail around two hours a day on average in that time

Highest levels of colic – crying more than three hours a day for at least three days a week – were found in the UK (28% of infants at 1-2 weeks), Canada (34% at 3-4 weeks) and Italy (21% at 8-9 weeks).

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THE numbers of golden eagles in Scotland could be boosted, reports The Independent.

The South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project has won £1.3 million funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and hopes to increase numbers in Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish borders.

The paper says that there are now two to four pairs of golden eagles in the south of Scotland but a study has shown there is suitable habitat for between 10 and 16 breeding pairs.