What better way to finish the Easter holiday than to lug a 50 kilo sack of coal from one pub to another! Might not be everybody's idea of a good time but year after year participants flock to the start-line of this historic one mile race. One thing is inevitable - many will collapse in a heap before they reach the finish-line! And another thing remains to be seen - will another Guinness World Record be set? 

The old childhood pastime of playing marbles in the school-yard is taken extremely seriously by contestants at the World Marble Championships! The competition in Tinsley Green, West Sussex has a long history, dating back to 1588! Despite competing at a world class level, the players remain down to earth...happy to compete in the car park of the local Greyhound Pub!

Italy will soon be transformed into car-enthusiast paradise as hundreds of classic cars make their way from Brescia to Rome and back again. The 1000 mile route winds its way around mountain roads and through Italy’s most beautiful cities.

Fighting cows – surely the animal-rights activists are up in arms! Well apparently it’s in their nature to fight! Long before cow fighting was an organised sport, the feisty Eringer breed of cows locked horns in the Swiss meadows…now they do the same in a ring whilst onlookers cheer and cow-owners line their pockets!

If you think sand-sculptures are just for children…images from SANDSATION will prove you wrong! A giant sand-pit is being prepared in the middle of Berlin…the sand is first compacted into a form which can be sculpted like soft stone, ready for sculptors from around the globe to claim their patch and begin carving their sand-masterpieces.