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A FOOTBALL fan has paid the ultimate tribute to his club - by naming his daughter after it.

Eva Toni Ann Pierce, who is eight months old, owes her name to her dad's love of Everton Football Club.
Danny Pierce, of Moorfields, Holywell, said: "I am Everton beserk. I thought up the name when I was in school and always said if I had a daughter she'd be called Eva-Toni-Ann."

But Eva's mum, Claire Cooper, needed convincing.

She said: "I'm not interested in football and I didn't like the name at first but it has grown on me now."
The couple have two other daughters, Tia and Casey, but it wasn't until the birth of the third that Claire allowed the football-themed name.

Danny said: "We put all the names we had thought of in a hat and I picked out Eva-Toni-Ann. Then we got our eldest daughter to pick one and she picked it too."

Claire added: "She didn't have a name for the first couple of days because we were going to call her Ciara but it didn't suit her."

If they had had a boy, he would have been called Duncan, after former Everton player Duncan Ferguson.
The unusual name has attracted a lot of attention.

"When we go into the chemist people always say what a great name it is," Danny said.

"People come up to me in the street to talk about it. Even Liverpool fans think it's great."

The name has extra meaning after Danny's father, a huge Everton fan, died following a house-fire earlier this year.

Danny said: "My dad was a big fan and a season ticket holder. He brought us up on Everton. "He was here when Eva was born and I know that he was proud."

Gareth Ellis of Chester, an 18 year old student from Sir John Deane's College, Northwich has put his soul on eBay to raise money for University.

The item, 'One Untarnished Human Soul' went on sale on the 23rd August and the online auction will run for 10 days. The reserve price of £600 is the lowest amount Gareth thinks his soul is worth.

When asked why he chose to sell his soul, Gareth said: "I don't really use it much, so I thought why not sell it?'

He is hoping to sell this rare item for a large sum of money hoping that he will not need to get a part time job to finance him through his studies at Goldsmiths University of London which are due to start in September.

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RACING pub regulars will take to the River Dee in the shell of a Lotus car.

The team of ten regulars and bar staff from Old Harkers Arms in Canalside, Chester, will don dinner jackets before arming themselves with an oar each and taking to the waters on Sunday for the James Bond themed raft race.

They will battle it out against 39 other wacky creations from a cross section of the business and local community.

They have christened their makeshift vessel 'The Man With the Golden Pump' and will be captained by landlord Paul Jeffery.

Contestants will paddle for more than 400 metres, from the Meadows, past The Groves, over the weir to the finishing line which is adjacent to the Old Dee Bridge.

The oarsmen are raising money for this year's main beneficiary, Age Concern at the Rotary Club event.

Thwarted last year after the event was cancelled because of dangerous river conditions, they have taken part in the charity race in year's gone by so know exactly what to expect.

One of the would-be special agents, Rob Blackwood, said: "It takes half an hour going down there and three hours going back up! It's chaos on the way back with everyone throwing things at each other."

Borrowing the use of a warehouse in Riverside Trade Park, Saltney and receiving material from local builders and barrels from the pub's suppliers, the team have been hard at work making their craft riverworthy.

Rob added: "We knew someone who had the shell of a Lotus Elite so we thought 'that's the raft sorted!' We've painted it battleship grey and will be racing in dinner jackets."

Sue Littler is official cheerleader for Cheshire Waste Skip Hire's entry 'The Skip' and says her 17-year-old daughter will help to set the pace.

She added: "Everything in the raft is salvaged from skips. It's all aluminium tubing and barrells.

"There's going to be someone at the front banging a drum. We're not in it to win it but we'll be noticeable!'

"But we're going to win."

Tony MacDonald, licensee at the Greyhound Inn, Farndon will board 'Live and Let Dee', constructed from the carbon fibres of a yacht's mast, with five pub regulars.

"The year before last we came 13th, so we might try to go for a podium finish this year," he said.

Prizes will be given for the best interpretation of the theme, as well as for the three fastest time classifications of 'Overall', 'Ladies' and 'Hostelry'.

There have been some belting April fools over the years - but which one is the world's best? Below are some I've found, but please send us any you've done, or heard about, that deserve to join the this infamous list.

- Spaghetti on trees...

In 1957 the respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied that they should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

- Instant colour TV

In 1962 there was only one tv channel in Sweden, and it broadcast in black and white. The station's technical expert, Kjell Stensson, appeared on the news to announce that, thanks to a new technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to display color reception. All they had to do was pull a nylon stocking over their tv screen. Stensson proceeded to demonstrate the process. Thousands of people were taken in. Regular color broadcasts only commenced in Sweden on April 1, 1970.

- The left-handed Whopper

In 1998 Burger King published a full page advertisement in USA Today announcing the introduction of a new item to their menu: a "Left-Handed Whopper" specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new whopper included the same ingredients as the original Whopper (lettuce, tomato, hamburger patty, etc.), but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees for the benefit of their left-handed customers. The following day Burger King issued a follow-up release revealing that although the Left-Handed Whopper was a hoax, thousands of customers had gone into restaurants to request the new sandwich. Simultaneously, according to the press release, "many others requested their own 'right handed' version."

- Eiffel Tower moves

The Parisien stunned French citizens in 1986 when it reported that an agreement had been signed to dismantle the Eiffle Tower. The international symbol of French culture would then be reconstructed in the new Euro Disney theme park going up east of Paris. In the space where the Tower used to stand, a 35,000 seat stadium would be built for use during the 1992 Olympic Games.

- The Eruption of Mount Edgecumbe

In 1974 residents of Sitka, Alaska were alarmed when the long-dormant volcano neighboring them, Mount Edgecumbe, suddenly began to belch out billows of black smoke. People spilled out of their homes onto the streets to gaze up at the volcano, terrified that it was active again and might soon erupt. Luckily it turned out that man, not nature, was responsible for the smoke. A local practical joker named Porky Bickar had flown hundreds of old tires into the volcano's crater and then lit them on fire, all in a (successful) attempt to fool the city dwellers into believing that the volcano was stirring to life. According to local legend, when Mount St. Helens erupted six years later, a Sitka resident wrote to Bickar to tell him, "This time you've gone too far!"

- The Sydney iceberg

On April 1, 1978 a barge appeared in Sydney Harbor towing a giant iceberg. Sydneysiders were expecting it. Dick Smith, a local adventurer and millionaire businessman (owner of Dick Smith's Foods), had been loudly promoting his scheme to tow an iceberg from Antarctica for quite some time. Now he had apparently succeeded. He said that he was going to carve the berg into small ice cubes, which he would sell to the public for ten cents each. These well-traveled cubes, fresh from the pure waters of Antarctica, were promised to improve the flavor of any drink they cooled. Slowly the iceberg made its way into the harbor. Local radio stations provided excited blow-by-blow coverage of the scene. Only when the berg was well into the harbor was its secret revealed. It started to rain, and the firefighting foam and shaving cream that the berg was really made of washed away, uncovering the white plastic sheets beneath.

- Whistling Carrots

In 2002 the British supermarket chain Tesco published an advertisement in The Sun announcing the successful development of a genetically modified 'whistling carrot.' The ad explained that the carrots had been specially engineered to grow with tapered airholes in their side. When fully cooked, these airholes caused the vegetable to whistle.

Thanks for these fools to www.museumofhoaxes.com