BBC Star Steps Back After Tabloid Scandal, England's World Cup Kit Stolen Including Cuddly Lions, Armed Robbery at Children's Lemonade Stand & Pensioner Fined £80K for Neglecting Cats in £1.1M Home

A BBC Panorama investigation exposes Radio 5 Live presenter Tony Livesey's past boasting about notorious Daily Sport newspaper stunts — he steps back from his BBC role as the story breaks. Police charge two men with stealing £13,000 worth of England's World Cup merchandise — including official kit, a Lego set, and two cuddly lion mascots — right as the team was arriving to begin their campaign. In Boston, a 14-year-old is arrested for armed robbery after holding up a children's lemonade stand at gunpoint — police are still searching for a second suspect. And in the English village of West Parley, pensioner Anik Sexton is banned from keeping animals for ten years and ordered to pay £80,000 in fines after six cats are found living in small crates without food, water, or bedding at her £1.1 million five-bedroom home.The Daily Strange — where truth is always weirder than fiction.