SOCIAL media has been awash with funny, absurd, and almost believable stories on April Fool s Day which will have surely caught a few people out. The April 1 tradition dates back hundreds of years and has seen pranksters fooling one another for some light-hearted fun for generations, and today was no different. Here is a list of some of the best pranks or bogus stories we have seen in south Cumbria today:
- Cable car system proposed to go between Barrow and Millom: This post on Around the Combe Main Page from Robert McKellar suggested a revolutionary cable car system between the two towns had been proposed according to a ‘leaked document’.