Ice cream factory delivery bikes and Lego that you can’t step on also among products apparently being launched
Media April fool stories may be a little thinner on the ground in an era where “fake news” has become a concern, and at a time when a global pandemic makes judging the tone trickier.
The Telegraph chose 1 April to announce that Barnard Castle was intending to add a lifesize statue of Dominic Cummings to the estate, while the Sun returned to the row over Harry and Meghan’s Oprah Winfrey interview by suggesting that Justin Welby officiated over their “secret” pre-wedding while acting as an Elvis impersonator. The Guardian’s own joke, in light of the recent Ever Given grounding, was that there were plans to build a second Suez canal to avoid a similar situation happening again.
