OK, guys and gals, here’s another silly little regular (I hope) series to pique your interest in the middle of the week: Oddity of the Week.
There are just so many odd, curious and amusing facts out there. And they just cry out to be shared. Like everything here some will be serious; some will be amusing; and some will just be terminally out of their tree. It all depends how I feel at the time.
Let’s start with one of those real curiosities of English Law, and in this case a modern one:
Sheep-Walking.
On 10 December 2003 the then Under Secretary of State at the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Ben Bradshaw MP, provided a Commons written answer to confirm that taking one’s pet sheep for a walk does not require a licence. However, walking one’s pet pig does: a regulation introduced in 1995 to reduce the risk of spreading disease.