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But in the three-course dinner bag you get starter-flavoured crisps at the top, maybe prawn cocktail or gazpacho, then halfway down you get salmon or venison flavoured crisps, and to finish off, apple or mango crisps.”The idea is that to achieve a complete meal sensation, you eat right through one packet. Mr Toobody reckons that there are fewer calories in these packets of crisps than in a genuine three-course dinner, so he could actually sell it as a slimming device.3. The fake police box, together with the genuine policeman inside, was removed overnight and neither of them has been seen again since the incident, 10 days ago.2. Just when we thought nobody would ever come up with a new flavour for potato crisps, Mr Jason Toobody of Leicester has taken the game to a whole new level. Time to pit your wits against the mighty Independent computer again! I asked the computer to invent four news plausible stories. I have brought them to you today.I have also added a fifth story which did really appear in the papers and is therefore guaranteed absolutely genuine.

All you have to do is read them, evaluate them and see if you can pick the genuine one from the fakes Ready? Here we go!
1. Police in the German town of Mainzdorf were puzzled by an outbreak of vanishing post-boxes. The post-boxes, some small, some man-sized, have all been taken off the wall or prised out of the pavement So the police set a trap. They erected a complete false post box with an observer inside, and placed it at the point where they thought the next post-box would be taken from They were right.

In the end the charity had to pay £69,600 for a pair of Venetian blackamoor figures which stood in her drawing room and an astonishing £15,600 (pre-sale estimate of £300) for the book in which her chef wrote the menu each day

More from Janet Street-Porter. Somehow, I cannot imagine David Beckham doing any of this, can you?* A charity has had to buy back some of Princess Margaret’s personal belongings at the Christies auctions which raised over £13.6m, adding further controversy to the sale. Historic Royal Palaces manage the Princess’s former home in Kensington Palace, on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, from which they receive no funding The charity exists solely on donations and admission fees. It is mystifying why the Princess’s two children did not donate some pieces to commemorate their mother. This week he had to contend with jellyfish, sewage and the busiest shipping lane in the world.