Businessman regrets printing ‘England winners’ t-shirts

A chancer has been left with 18,000 “useless” T-shirts which wrongly herald England as World Cup champions, reported Sky News. Karl Baxter was so sure that England would win the tournament that he had the tops printed ahead of the quarter-finals. “England, Cup Winners 2022, It’s Finally Home” reads the slogan on the front, while the back is emblazoned with: “The Day It Came Home”. Baxter suggested people could still buy the shirt and “use it to clean the windows”.

Octogenarians wed after bumping trolleys

A couple in their eighties who met when their trolleys collided in a supermarket last Christmas have got married, reported The Independent. Wendy Hazell, 80, was single for 32 years before bumping into two-time widower Paul Hazell, 83, at a Sainsbury’s in Derbyshire. “I wasn’t looking for love and had been very happily single for over 30 years when I met Paul,” said Wendy, “but I knew from early on that we were right for each other, we had instant chemistry.”

Trump mocked for ‘desperate’ NFTs

Donald Trump bragged that he was “better” than Abraham Lincoln as he launched a set of NFT digital trading cards featuring him as a superhero, a cowboy and an astronaut. “America needs a superhero,” said the former US president as he announced the project, adding that Trump the NFTs were “very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting”. They were dismissed as “desperate” and “scammy” by critics, said Rolling Stone.

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