Has anyone spotted the April Fools in the News?

[Gelatibon]

Or don't the big outlets do that anymore ?

I've seen stories that are frankly unbelievable, but they wouldn't be funny hoaxes...

Not spotted any yet. I feel sorry for people who have to think them up now. April Fool stories can't compete with reality these days.

There was a story on gmb about a hawk that attacked people. I think now that’s probably not true (I was half asleep at the time)

I've seen a lot of comments calling April Fools on a story which is real...

(Lion cubs)

Connections was a bit mental this morning

I don't think most will imho. I take this as BBC not doing it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8rxm0nrz9o

It's tedious and totally unfunny

I think the telegraph have: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/01/police-must-tell-suspects-they-are-not-playing-april-fools/

kind of double bluff with April Fools being in the headline.

Possibly this?
spotted earlier

I’m deliberately not looking this year, because in my head someone is going to burst in shouting ‘APRIL FOOL!’ and we will discover that all of the recent news was an elaborate prank in bad taste.

Waitrose have one

The problem is that so much of the real news currently makes you go wft that it's hard to top it.

Mae Dupp, of business organisation the UK Employers Federation, said: ‘This is an incredibly foolish idea.'

Mae Dupp - Not bad Daily Mail 👏

It’s true, Google Flamstead and Harris Hawk (I live in the next village) its all over the villag/es Facebook pages and other News channels/outlets.

In my area the A66 road is going to have sewage pipes laid under it and the contents heated in winter to melt the snow & ice to help keep the roads clear .

I’ve seen a long running one about Trump being the president.

This one is quite amusing :

Outrage over planned nudist wild camp

Locals have hit out at a new annual nudist wild camp at Stickle Tarn, Langdale. Nuddi-Fest is taking place for the first time this weekend where nudists hope to erect tents beside the tarn.

Festival organisers are hoping the event will allow likeminded nudists to hang out together and the first 100 attendees have been offered free tick repellent.

However, locals are not happy. Amiria Butt said her biggest fear was the risk of a bush fire at the beauty spot. Another local, Dick Long said that people would just come to fly drones over the event.

If you have any concerns, please can you contact one of the Lake District Authorities on 0898 69 69 69

There was a story in the Mail today (sorry!) about Jon Richardson re training as a Teacher! Surely this has to be one ?

My local animal rescue centre had one on FB - rescuing a camel. I wasn’t fully awake when I saw it, so spent far too long wonderful where it had escaped from 😂
I’m going to ignore all news for the rest of the morning as I’m obviously not on the ball enough today.

That Daily Mail one made me chuckle. I'm taking a different approach for the work blog (we write about computer science) and am taking the month of April to write about some of the frankly bonkers things that computer scientists do and also some of their April Fools' jokes.

Today's is about internet via carrier pigeon :)
https://cs4fn.blog/2025/04/01/broadband-by-carrier-pigeon/

Jo

If only it were an April Fool 😩

Why don't they do that? That's a great idea! 😂

I heard on Heart Radio that they are launching a station playing theme tunes 🤔

@JoBrodie That got hidden quickly, you must have put something MN forbids in it. 😱

That's good! Written by Flora Pilo.

My village Facebook group has a very believable announcement that M&S are going to build a store at the edge of the village. Totally got me for a second.