BRITAIN is full of eccentrics, none more so than 49 year old Stuart Kettell from Balsall Common in the West Midlands, who took three days to push a Brussels sprout up the 1,085m Snowdon mountain in Wales with his nose.

The BBC reports that Stuart trained for the charity effort by pushing a sprout around his garden.

“People definitely think I'm mad, and I'm beginning to think it myself,” said Stuart who aims to raise £5,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

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News Round Up

by Patrick O'Connor

THE Daily Mail reports that 50 year old father of three Charles Brown was stunned when he was asked for ID as he tried to buy a bottle of whisky at a supermarket.

Mr Brown, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, whose oldest child is 30, said: “I’m 50 and I can take it as a compliment but it has gone too far. I know I don’t look 50 but I don’t look 24.”