50 Cent sponsors Welsh under-14s football team
And other stories from the stranger side of life
The US rapper 50 Cent is sponsoring a Welsh under-14s girls football team, reported The Telegraph. The musician, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, has become the backer of the under-14 girls team at AFC Rumney in Cardiff. The father of one of the team worked with the rapper on a tour, "and as the old adage goes - if you don't ask you don't get", said Wales Online.
King gets painted pants
The King said he is "deeply touched" after children sent him underpants, reported The Telegraph. For "almost three decades", schoolchildren "bombarded Elizabeth II with underpants designed by their own fair hands", said the paper, and now some have been sent to Charles. Pupils at Holy Trinity C of E Primary Academy School in Oswestry, Shropshire, received a signed note from Charles and Camilla, thanking the school for the "thoughtful gesture".
Marathon cat rescue
A Boston woman running in the Chicago Marathon stopped to rescue a kitten at mile 21 and found the young cat a new home along the route. Sarah Bohan was nearing a personal marathon record when she spotted the "cowering kitten" about five miles from the finish line, said UPI. "Fur was matted and something clicked, and I was like, 'This is more important'," she said. Bohan carried the kitten for about a mile until she spotted some spectators who were happy to give the kitten a new home.
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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.
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