To welcome readers back after their Bank Holiday break, we have some more funny, unusual, or baffling news headlines from the UK regional press.

8ft 4in villager wins a tape measure.

Surely Jennifer Aniston - or is it Rachel Green?

Yes, it's 'dogging' again - this is a real one who gets a sausage for every save.

Toilet humour in south Devon.

She should have applied to the journalists' benevolent fund.

And the universal truth we all tried to shy away from...

Back to our previous selection.

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