Pink, pink hippos

Not a headline you see every day.

Sea washes up hundreds of hippos

Eight hundred pink hippopotamuses, toy dogs and red-legged turkeys have been washed up along the Sussex coast.

Members of the public spotted the animal toys - wrapped in plastic bags - at Selsey Bay and west Wittering. The toys, worth £100,000, are lost cargo from the ship Bunga Pelangi which shed four containers in rough seas on its way from China to Southampton. The Shropshire firm which ordered the toys, said locals could keep one each and give the rest to animal charities.

But remember if you keep one that a pink hippo is for life, not just for Christmas.