Lyneham Village Online brings you some extremely weird news stories and odd, funny facts from all over the world. Every year, thousands of news stories get overlooked, lost beneath the welter of major international events.

They are, for the most part, simple matters with a human dimension, not involving world leaders, war or other political upheaval, stories which illustrate the extraordinary in the everyday, the amusing, absurd, outlandish and the downright bizarre occurrences which can befall any of us.

Here, then, is a selection of some of those offbeat stories which offer an insight into human nature but which may have been overshadowed by weightier news items. Have fun browsing the stories. They may be odd, but apparently there true.